Things are going great recently - the last few days were especially great. The last 3.5 weeks had been full of training, 12 times riding of which five times with my trainer, I lunged Hafl twice and he had six days off.
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One day, sun, on the next day snow...crazy conditions |
We kept the improvement in the trot work. Most of the days, he felt super light and connected, a great feeling. Actually, trot work was getting kinda boring as it went so well that I did not know what else to do with him. Last week, there was one day when I almost cried while I cantered as it felt so good. Unfortunately, I could not keep up this feeling, the insecure feeling has returned. So I need to focus more on me during canter again.
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Lessons we love |
Apart from that, the flying changes are tremendously improving. Now they actually feel like fun. We get a got portion of them right now and there is no running and craziness anymore - okay, they are for sure not pretty yet but, at least, we get really many right now.
I also saw a great improvement of Hafl's canter on the lunge line. Even on the left hand, canter really looked like canter. Using the body wrap helped a lot.
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Workout for horse and rider |
With now only 41 days left to our first show, I am feeling pretty confident already. I just realized that I might need to change some training routines as he is so supple and good right now that I do not want to risk to make him angry. So as soon as these stupid snowfall and rain stop, we will go for hacks at least once a week. It is just slushy now - hope that it gets warmer again.
And I will have one day of riding him just for keeping him supple. No movements, just easy work on a half long rein. I also started to massage him and he seems to like it a lot. He is such a good boy and I cannot wait to go out there to ride our first show.
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Late night rides...how many days til daylight saving time?! |
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