Tonto
4th Mar 2008, 08:30 PM
for a while anyway today i sat in sitting trot. i'v been reading EE and at my lesson today, where i happened to be doing alot of sitting trot without stirrups, i really managed to get it for the first time. and it felt really good; not bumpy. i did a bit of cantering too and think i may have managed a few strides at one point where i was sitting; the lower back movement is at a slower pace than sitting trot and i think i just hit lucky for a few strides and was moving with the horse. anyway for those few strides i felt like i was riding with the horse and not just holding on.. i also tried squeezing my hands in turn with the rein to get the horse comfortably on the bit. i did notice that the horse seemed to relax it's chin in a bit. anyway i'm really enjoying putting the EE ideas into practice at the rs. i'm trying to concentrate on one or 2 ideas during each lesson