So late to yard <bad mummy> quickly threw Fred out and lucked out and iced Chorrie.
Got Soly in with Gill and dressed him up in pink - the joy of a black horse they look good in every colour :-)
Got on and started off on a loose rein which is weird because it is only the second time I've ridden Soly and yet there I was on a loose rein and not bothered. So that is good in fact it is more than good but given this is a swear free post we'll leave it as more than good. So it just shows that I can be different and that change is there for the taking. Need to take this learning forwards onto Chorrie.
What we did
walk on a long rein
walk pirouettes (large ones)
collect and forwards the walk
leg yield on diagonal
collect and forwards the trot
shoulder in
Take homes
Need to have a contact, not taking the contact will not encourage Soly into contact on right side. So have contact on RHS with view to getting Soly into that rein so on left rein ask for counter bend then straight then true bend and then when in the rein "stretching" the right hand side so the rein can become longer.
Give an aid get a response stop bloody nagging him!
Crossing hands over will not work try a leg aid!
Can only go forwards with a soft neck, can only trot from a good walk.
No activity in walk it will be hard to trot (believe this one and well OWN it!) and trot will be inactive. I do like to hope for the best and trot regardless, fair enough in a test situation when you have to trot at a marker but no excuse in a lesson.
Overall bloody (ok I lied about it being a swear free post) chuffed second time on Soly and feeling confident. Also now I don't mind an audience am officially weird :-)
Great news
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