Dressage clinic with less whining, also other horse adjacent things

Dressage clinic with DLB was pretty even-tempered all things considered. I moderated my expectations and therefore mostly managed to hold it together. We had been working on (a) turns on the hindquarter with emphasis on reasonably straight spine and no sprawling of hq and no flailing of forehand and (b) our old friend leg yield zig zags both of which were ok. Posting on the whole is still a shitshow wherein I need to be more vertical and "land more towards the front of the saddle" and "land lighter and softer" and I am mostly not managing it. *sigh* Research continues. (The fact that almost everyone got this posting advice does not make me feel any better about having gotten it.)

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