So every hughe idea has a small start. My start is here.
All "storys" will come somwhere up here later when I have more time and I can truly concentrate to tell you all you might want to know about each individual appearing in this blog.
I would love to keep this as simple as possible but turthfully I am quite sure I will fail with it. So bare with me.
First and foremost - this blog is completely egoistic, sarcastic collection of complete bullsh*t. Whatever is said and done here should by no means used as a good example. Good laugh...yeah possible.
So time to meet the first lucky inhabitant.
WINDROSE'S ATHENA aka Athena, At, Fatty. On this lovely august day of 28th all she had to do was lunging work. Her history as stated before will come...one day. So we were lunging. No saddle, no bridle just a halter. She is recovering from an injury so we start our work lightly. I guess we did aroun 5 + 5 minutes walk-trot on both sides. She had no balance whatsoever. Instead of rounding herself inside she perfectly tried to balance herself outside which made everything so hard that in general she was just running like a wild monkey without any concentration. I kept on talking and calming her down. Not sure if it worked. Didn't seemd like that to me. It took some nice laps to get her back to walk. And then she got back out.
MARIGNAT MAGIC CARMEN aka Carmen, Carms, Honey. Ahh on that day we went to ride in the woods. I had a godly illumination that I should bring the longest dressage whip there is in our property with me. Well first half of the way we worked on our collection. Or I worked on getting her nicely rounded and relaxed. What Carms did I am not quite sure about. She took every touch of the leg as a trigger so it was remarkably hard to get her work with her tiny little but. She also preferd me to carry her heavy head. After pushing and holding and another pushing and holding that lasted quite some time we even got some collection like form that almost kinda sorta reminded it but was not really "it". The problem with her was that she really didn't find it in her mind to respect the leg as something that tries to engage her hind legs a bit more and drive her on that damn bit (hand) that was keeping her from running away. What she saw was leg pushing - run as hell! hand keeping - keep the pace, don't run! So in her little mind she needed to decide which one was the bad guy. Not a hard guess for a little pony who likes to run. So she did all possible to fight the "hand". But the "hand" was persitante. So in the end sad little pony had to respect the fact that the hand and the leg were actully working together and telling her to drive forward from the behind and soften from the front. And what a surprise! When little Carms did that both bad guys stopped nagging with her. Hooray!
The other half of the way our main goal was steady pace. There was no more collection which was good in Carms opinion. But now there was tempo and rythm that she needed to hold. And she really needed to hold it. So no slowing down and no going faster. And she did it extremely perfectly. Pony was happy and I was happy.
DANCING LADY aka LADY, DL. She was the last one of my day. Surprised me a little with her willingness. Meaning it was astonsihingly easiER to get her collected and respect the hand. She had more respect to the leg than days before. What we did was only forward, forward, forward. Keeping her pace up but controllable and at the same time keeping her in collection. The last one was the hardest part. She tended to tense up and be like a robot. Bzzng, bzzng, bzzng. And then I would start bouncing on the orbit. With her one of the key points is the hand. She needs a moving bit. She really, REALLY needs a moving bit. So with her the hand has to be more active, more working that usually...like to remid her to stay on the bit and work. At the same time inner leg needs to keep her back legs engaged whiel the outer leg keeps the pace up. All in all the rider has to work the butt off to get a good result out of that horse. Turns and circles are essential in her training. I trylu enjoied her willingness this time. Only time when she was really fighting against the hand was left canter which is probably her weakest point.
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