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I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm now loving Homer, the 2nd RS horse I'm riding who has the most unbelievable bouncy trot.
I did have a couple of lessons doing a sitting trot on him before I took off for two weeks and I just barely mastered it. This week I just came back to riding and thought I was going to die in the first 5 minutes. I couldn't even rise to his trot much less sit it.
But you know, his bounciness really made me stretch and got me to relax and soon we were going more forward than he's ever gone before with me. We did some figure eights and flying lead changes in canter and he went perfectly! Had a substitue riding instructor who also likes dressage so she was having us work on the upward and downward transitions a lot and going from the rising trot to sitting trot to sitting canter to two-point canter then to the sitting canter and sitting trot, then walk. He was very, very fluid and very responsive.
I like her a lot, it may be a little awkward to switch instructors at the same school. They really don't want to poach each other's students. But my regular instructor may have a conflict at the time I need to go and this instructor teaches at that time so maybe it will all work out!
I did have a couple of lessons doing a sitting trot on him before I took off for two weeks and I just barely mastered it. This week I just came back to riding and thought I was going to die in the first 5 minutes. I couldn't even rise to his trot much less sit it.
But you know, his bounciness really made me stretch and got me to relax and soon we were going more forward than he's ever gone before with me. We did some figure eights and flying lead changes in canter and he went perfectly! Had a substitue riding instructor who also likes dressage so she was having us work on the upward and downward transitions a lot and going from the rising trot to sitting trot to sitting canter to two-point canter then to the sitting canter and sitting trot, then walk. He was very, very fluid and very responsive.
I like her a lot, it may be a little awkward to switch instructors at the same school. They really don't want to poach each other's students. But my regular instructor may have a conflict at the time I need to go and this instructor teaches at that time so maybe it will all work out!