notpoodle
14th Mar 2005, 08:40 AM
angel is being rather, erm,argumentative when i ride her lately :rolleyes:
i blame the fact she isnt out as much as usual (i wish those bloody fields would dry out!!!! she's in tuesday to sunday and out sunday afternoon till tuesday at the moment. which is NOT ENOUGH!) but im getting worried i am beginning to really annoy her :rolleyes:
for example
she tries to dive into the middle of the school again. i won't let her (pony wedged in between my aids until she looks the right way again ...)
i ask for canter, the transition is very messy, she trots like a loonie until she can't trot any faster and switches into canter. when she tries it, i bring her back into a civilised trot again and start the whole thing again until she realised its easier to just go along with me and what i say
once she gets into canter mode, she lurches and hurtles at breakneck speed. so i circle until we are at a decent speed.
she was being a poo yesterday and we ended up cantering an array of shaped and circles because i was trying to get my point (you may be cantering but i can still tell you exactly where to go next) across.
on the one hand, i guess it's good that i am getting the hang of being able to control her better when she is being stubborn, but on the other hand i worry she'll hate me for it and that she's only doing it because she is miffed about being cooped up for most of the week at the moment :rolleyes:
(btw. i cant let her run free in any of the schools because none of them are safe to do so and the yard won't allow it).
help!!
julia
x
i blame the fact she isnt out as much as usual (i wish those bloody fields would dry out!!!! she's in tuesday to sunday and out sunday afternoon till tuesday at the moment. which is NOT ENOUGH!) but im getting worried i am beginning to really annoy her :rolleyes:
for example
she tries to dive into the middle of the school again. i won't let her (pony wedged in between my aids until she looks the right way again ...)
i ask for canter, the transition is very messy, she trots like a loonie until she can't trot any faster and switches into canter. when she tries it, i bring her back into a civilised trot again and start the whole thing again until she realised its easier to just go along with me and what i say
once she gets into canter mode, she lurches and hurtles at breakneck speed. so i circle until we are at a decent speed.
she was being a poo yesterday and we ended up cantering an array of shaped and circles because i was trying to get my point (you may be cantering but i can still tell you exactly where to go next) across.
on the one hand, i guess it's good that i am getting the hang of being able to control her better when she is being stubborn, but on the other hand i worry she'll hate me for it and that she's only doing it because she is miffed about being cooped up for most of the week at the moment :rolleyes:
(btw. i cant let her run free in any of the schools because none of them are safe to do so and the yard won't allow it).
help!!
julia
x