DLB: Round 2, FIGHT!
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Still no fighting. These are honestly non-antagonistic events.
We had no issues with truck or trailer, got to the location, did the things. Our quarter turns are "better" (as I had hoped they would be, what with working on them six days a week in the intervening two weeks since last DLB) and we also did some leg yield things which, natch, were fine.
Leg yielding is a Thing We Can Do now, pretty much any way you want to slice it, we can leg yield. Like, there aren't really even advices for the better leg yielding. It's just... do the thing and we do it and that's that.
From leg yield, we went to looking at shoulder-in in walk, but I still don't think I understand shoulder-in in walk and I probably don't do enough of it. I've made a note for remedial work at home on this subject. Also I need to buff all my walk laterals because jesus fuck she wants to see everything in walk.
Walk is so messy. TOO MANY LEGS. Too much fucking back motion. Can't we just trot? It's EASIER. There are only two legs in trot, so timing is simpler. Horse's back is very stable in trot, so you can feel what you're doing better.
Walk is slower and easier for everyone to see correct, easier for advice to be processed, easier for rider to make adjustments, does not burn up abs of horse in like three tries. I GET why it's in walk. I do. But fuck, walk is SO ANNOYING.
Anyway, then we went to the interesting stuff, which was as follows:
Directive: Come up the long side in haunches-in at the walk. (Haunches-in is a macaroni-shape for your horse where his front feet kinda go straight and his butt is bent towards the inside of the ring/arena and he makes three tracks in a balanced and non-shitty gait while NOT fishtailing or blowing through the outside shoulder in evasive bullshit maneuvers. I have written about this extensively before if you want a bleeding treatise on haunches-in.)
Now, given our endless deficiencies in other areas, you might be a bit... *buh* that DLB is asking us to do this. But, my horse and I CAN actually do this and we don't suck too hard at it. We are kinda-OK haunches-inners and certainly quite a bit better haunches-inners than people expect.
So we haunches-inned from the end letter K? to the next letter, which may have been P. We didn't get as far as E (midway up the side) because it doesn't take me, like, forever to put Bird in a stable and appropriate haunches-in at the walk. Anyway, before we got to E, we got a New Directive: Can you take that haunches-in and think about moving it towards the centerline?
Yes. Yes, we can. We are able to take our walking haunches-in shape off the rail and move it towards the centerline at will without losing the shape or the walk, thereby performing a definite and clear diagonal movement that is NOT SHITTY and NOT FLAILING and is totally 100% a beginner-level halfpass.
DLB, visibly pleased: I didn't want to say too much to confuse you or distract you from what I was hoping would happen. But that's it, exactly! Well ridden!
She seemed a bit surprised.
Anyway, we'll work on our shoulder-innings and our quarter turns and our stuff-in-walk and see what we get in two weeks' time.
We had no issues with truck or trailer, got to the location, did the things. Our quarter turns are "better" (as I had hoped they would be, what with working on them six days a week in the intervening two weeks since last DLB) and we also did some leg yield things which, natch, were fine.
Leg yielding is a Thing We Can Do now, pretty much any way you want to slice it, we can leg yield. Like, there aren't really even advices for the better leg yielding. It's just... do the thing and we do it and that's that.
From leg yield, we went to looking at shoulder-in in walk, but I still don't think I understand shoulder-in in walk and I probably don't do enough of it. I've made a note for remedial work at home on this subject. Also I need to buff all my walk laterals because jesus fuck she wants to see everything in walk.
Walk is so messy. TOO MANY LEGS. Too much fucking back motion. Can't we just trot? It's EASIER. There are only two legs in trot, so timing is simpler. Horse's back is very stable in trot, so you can feel what you're doing better.
Walk is slower and easier for everyone to see correct, easier for advice to be processed, easier for rider to make adjustments, does not burn up abs of horse in like three tries. I GET why it's in walk. I do. But fuck, walk is SO ANNOYING.
Anyway, then we went to the interesting stuff, which was as follows:
Directive: Come up the long side in haunches-in at the walk. (Haunches-in is a macaroni-shape for your horse where his front feet kinda go straight and his butt is bent towards the inside of the ring/arena and he makes three tracks in a balanced and non-shitty gait while NOT fishtailing or blowing through the outside shoulder in evasive bullshit maneuvers. I have written about this extensively before if you want a bleeding treatise on haunches-in.)
Now, given our endless deficiencies in other areas, you might be a bit... *buh* that DLB is asking us to do this. But, my horse and I CAN actually do this and we don't suck too hard at it. We are kinda-OK haunches-inners and certainly quite a bit better haunches-inners than people expect.
So we haunches-inned from the end letter K? to the next letter, which may have been P. We didn't get as far as E (midway up the side) because it doesn't take me, like, forever to put Bird in a stable and appropriate haunches-in at the walk. Anyway, before we got to E, we got a New Directive: Can you take that haunches-in and think about moving it towards the centerline?
Yes. Yes, we can. We are able to take our walking haunches-in shape off the rail and move it towards the centerline at will without losing the shape or the walk, thereby performing a definite and clear diagonal movement that is NOT SHITTY and NOT FLAILING and is totally 100% a beginner-level halfpass.
DLB, visibly pleased: I didn't want to say too much to confuse you or distract you from what I was hoping would happen. But that's it, exactly! Well ridden!
She seemed a bit surprised.
Anyway, we'll work on our shoulder-innings and our quarter turns and our stuff-in-walk and see what we get in two weeks' time.
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Date: 2022-05-21 01:52 pm (UTC)