It is now February 2010, and we are doing serpentines, circles, loops, and changes of rein and working on staying on two tracks and not losing his shoulder or allowing his hind end to swing in or out. He gets better every time I ride him.
Chapter Seven - The Learning Curve
I don't have photos of Harley and I when we first began taking lessons from Jane in September 2009, but I have a couple I want to share with you from December 2009. We had been working on contact for only a few weeks. The first is Harley resisting contact, and the second is him accepting contact. They are from the same lesson, and at that time, he could only stay on contact for short periods of time, perhaps five or six strides, and then his head would come up again. So he was a bit of a yo-yo, but he tried really hard. I was also still learning to relax my arms and move with him instead of being rigid from my shoulders to my hands, and you can see what Harley does when I relax - he takes the contact.
It is now February 2010, and we are doing serpentines, circles, loops, and changes of rein and working on staying on two tracks and not losing his shoulder or allowing his hind end to swing in or out. He gets better every time I ride him.
It is now February 2010, and we are doing serpentines, circles, loops, and changes of rein and working on staying on two tracks and not losing his shoulder or allowing his hind end to swing in or out. He gets better every time I ride him.
