Lesson

On Sunday Vi and I headed of down the road for our next lesson to have use of an arena. Vi arrived all puffed up and excited. After saddling up we wandered around the arena for a look see, cause everything was so scary!

Last time we worked on the basic stop and go and getting a more immediate go response. It was good to see our practice had paid off and everything had improved by our second lesson. So our second lesson was learning direct and indirect turns, and stopping vi from leaning on my hands. Near the end we did some canter work and because vi likes to lean on the forehand and collapse on the inside we worked on getting her straighter. Which she found quite difficult after getting away with being lazy with me for so long. Poor girl she kept trying to counter canter instead of just turning her head out on the circle.

I'm looking forward to practicing what we learnt over the next couple of weeks and our next lesson with more canter work, i think correcting our canter will help us so much in all our other aspects of riding. No more tanking!