Pom Poms!

So as always started with laughing on Blackberry.

Blackberry

Stand up in stirrups, turn belly button/shoulders/head sit back down, how do seat bones feel? Can you now change ratio of weight in each?

Connie cushions then can you feel weight all the way down your legs to your feet?

As always turning body whilst staying on seat bones. Easiest to turn shoulders when hands in riding position.

Pooh

Pooh started off on lunge, without stirrups then with stirrups changing weight every three strides. Tractor started hedge trimming I spooked Pooh didn't :*) SFO went to get pom poms on basis if she occupied my brain I wouldn't spook!

So in rising trot have to hold the pom poms one in each hand and move hands holding pom poms up and down to the rhythm of the trot.

Sounds easy but not as easy as it sounds, then throw in walk transitions and have to move in new rhythm then as you move into trot.

Then pom poms over left knee for three strides, then square then over right knee.

Well it worked I was too brain confuzzled to worry about the tractor!

Then off lunge and walk free whilst SFO went for a comfort break.

Felt really spaced out and pondered getting off, wonder if it was the ear infection that had made me feel grim on getting up or just the extra visual stimulus of bright orange pom poms whilst going round on a circle?

Was quietly pleased that I stayed on board and did some leg yield, wonder if SFO would have been pleased with the LY?

Onto canter loose some good transitions BUT not so good at

1/ Turning *doh* :-)
2/ Keeping the 1/4s out on the right rein

So to improve 1/ on right rein need to think of riding circle as a decagon and at each point of decagon ask for flexion left then let go no leg needed to ask for flexion, then ask again and so on and so forth.

To improve 2/ just do it even if at halt and watch that right leg when on inside is activating.