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« on: April 02, 2005, 03:40:14 PM » |
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Warning: rainy day ramblings ahead. It is very cold, raw weather and will be for the foreseeable future. I'm effectively grounded by it. I ride in rain in the summer, in snow in the winter, but not in this sneet/frizzle stuff that makes your bones ache... </disclaimer>
Two days ago I rode for the first time in a sort of normal 'riding area.' It's not quite flat, not quite regularly shaped, but does the job most of the time. I felt particularly elegant and capable, for no fathomable reason except bright sun and blue sky. But position felt fairly strong, stable and balanced.
We could do haunches in to the left. We could do half-pass to the left. We could do neither to the right. And barely a semblance of shoulders-in even.
I get so frustrated by the randomness of this.
A couple of rides before, on the dirt road accross the street, going up and down a steeper grade, we had HI and HP in both directions, very easily. Excitingly so. It was also in the pelham.
Is it him or me? And how can I figure that out without eyes on the ground? It will be about a month before I can get down for a lesson still.
If the left hind is bothering him, how would that show up? The way I understand the movements, it might well be the problem in HI and HP to the right, as that leg is expected to cross under and carry weight at a far more distal point than in straight/forward work. It's certainly not bothering him enough to make him uneven on the flat or straightaways, but I wonder if that's part of the on-again/off-again ability to the right.
Plus, at times I can't tell if I let my weight off that seatbone, or if quite literally he takes his back away. It feels like he takes his back away. It truly feels at times like there's nothing to sit ON there.
I've always said I think this is why it is so very difficult for the true amatuer to bring their own horse up the levels. You can ride the upper level stuff. You can start babies. You even know what correct is, and isn't... But it's this middle ground, where you feel like you're floundering around in the wilderness without a roadmap... I do wish my teacher was closer so I could go for a lesson when we hit a problem like this. But 5 hours one way is a really big deal--bigger now that gas has gone up more than 50 cents a gallon. :(
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"We have them" he said "to learn from. And some lessons are easier than others. You ride, and you enjoy them, and you make mistakes. We all make mistakes. But you do your best and you work hard, and you make as few as you can." [/size][/font]
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