So today was the first day that I rode Sharubi with her "new" feet. Firstly, because I wanted her to get used to them and secondly, I haven't been able to get up to the barn since Saturday because of parents and this week and one day next week are my finals, so I'm trying to cram in some studying (actually I'm doing really badly with the whole studying thing lol.)
Anyway I decided to work on softening and upward and downward canter transitions today. For the softening I did a lot of sitting trot work and halting and back up. This helped a lot. I also worked on her upward trot transitions which are pretty good in my opinion. She gets up into the trot very powerfully, but I need to work on have her "hop" into it a little more. With the canter transitions it's about getting it when I ask and getting it slow and collected. She hops into her canter transitions usually so that's not the problem it's mostly speed control.
But today she did really well. Her first canter was nice and slow, I was really pleased with that. But of course after the first canter she gets all excited, but she was picking up her leads beautifully today and that I was really happy about. Now we just need to build up better stamina when doing the canter so we can work on it for longer amounts of time. So that was today!!!! Nice and exciting:)
No comments:
Post a Comment