I am only managing to get out once a week at present, but we make it a good one by booking a lesson hack with my RI.
I posted last week about how I am just starting to "get it" about how to ride Ziggy well in trot. This week I'm posting in Training of the Horse because I have "got it" even more and Ziggy just responded sooo well!
The thing that has made the biggest difference (after not being hollow in my back, sitting on my sitbones, keeping my elbows for me, etc etc etc), well let's be accurate the thing that has made the biggest difference recently has been something Moet's owner posted about - "spanning" Ziggy with my thighbone, as if I am using it to keep his front and back half apart. It seems to help him to drop his neck and lift his back - during one long trot today I could really feel his back muscles under my thighs, quite a novel sensation for us.
I have to say he was trying really hard today. He didn't whizz much and I had his ears nearly all the time. Result: a lovely hack at walk and controlled, balanced trot - canters not possible as ground frozen - on a little angel pony.
Here he is in all his fuzzy gorgeousness!
Following me over to the gate, one ear back because he can hear my RI coming with Finn:
He is such a sweetie :inlove:
I posted last week about how I am just starting to "get it" about how to ride Ziggy well in trot. This week I'm posting in Training of the Horse because I have "got it" even more and Ziggy just responded sooo well!
The thing that has made the biggest difference (after not being hollow in my back, sitting on my sitbones, keeping my elbows for me, etc etc etc), well let's be accurate the thing that has made the biggest difference recently has been something Moet's owner posted about - "spanning" Ziggy with my thighbone, as if I am using it to keep his front and back half apart. It seems to help him to drop his neck and lift his back - during one long trot today I could really feel his back muscles under my thighs, quite a novel sensation for us.
I have to say he was trying really hard today. He didn't whizz much and I had his ears nearly all the time. Result: a lovely hack at walk and controlled, balanced trot - canters not possible as ground frozen - on a little angel pony.
Here he is in all his fuzzy gorgeousness!
Following me over to the gate, one ear back because he can hear my RI coming with Finn:
He is such a sweetie :inlove: