Re: closing in on the Peter...


lizzard woman wrote:

> Well I finally have some progress to report... but it didn't start out
> well...
>
> After several lessons of not getting winded I find myself puffing a little
> during the warm-up today... not IFOTL. So my instructor tells me, "fix it."
> So I fixed it and we did some reasonable LYs, SIs and simple changes. I
> have yet to be consistent on those so we'll see if it lasts.
>
> Then some collected work then counter canter, which I have not done on him.
> We did some loops off the wall and then across the diagonal and all the way
> around, both directions. He did them perfectly, I think he can do counter
> canter in his sleep. They were all gifts... I know I was getting confused
> about how the outside rein is now physically located on the inside. I have
> riding on the outside rein so ingrained that it is extremely hard to wrap my
> mind around having him on a rein towards the center of the ring. My
> instructor told me to mentally remove the walls and that helped somewhat.
> And after my efforts to learn to ride with mainly seat and ankles, having to
> use some thigh to turn the horse because your outside rein in now physically
> located in the inside added to my confused state.
>
> I would love to try counter canter in a large field. I think it would be
> less confusing for me.
>
> Open the door at least to closing in on that Peter... what a man.
>
> ->

>;->

When you start to get 'sensory overload' I think it really helps to
mentally just picture your skeleton..picture your skeleton, your
seatbones as 'pointers', your thigh just opening in the direction you
want to go..your *feet* tracking where you want to go, and picture that
there just *happens* to be a Petey there.Your *feet* are laying your
track, your seat is getting him there. Your ribcage is following your
seat, you shoulders even with his and his directly in front of
yours...so often when I find something not working I relax the muscle
and think skeleton and it works.

Another image that helped me, years ago (and you can thank Susan Harris
for it) is for a girl to picture that she..er..is a guy. We all laughed
long and hard at what became 'follow your inner weenie' but it can help
you keep your pelvis pointing the right way, rather than carrying one
hip in front of or behind the other.

Abby

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