First off, Congrats to our regions pony clubbers who went to the USPC Festival!
After the 1st day of camp with Dixie, I decides to switch horses and take Ryn! She had a little sleep over at Infinity Farm Due to our 1702 ford breaking down on the way home from day 1. On Thursday a close friend picked me and Ryn up (THANK YOU BROOKE) she was a little nervous, 1st time with a gooseneck. It is not much different than a bumper pull and she did great. Yet again, I can't really say anything I have not driven a trailer, car, truck, or anything else with a motor over 25mph. (Stupid Milo Driving School). Anyway, the camp went great! We did some stretches and strengthening exercises before we got on. One of them was this rotating stool Judy has and we had to use our core to move our hips to what ever way we're going and not move our upper body. That's hard for me. Either everything wants to stay too stiff and nothing moves or, my body is too loose and I do the "Ashley Wiggle" with my shoulders (Gail phrase). I have NO clue where I got that from.....Thank you Green horses :D.
I was in the 1st group to ride. Who ever said there is know such thing as perfect, is wrong because Ryn was perfect. The exercise while we were on was to use our seats to steer, and she had us put a whip in our front belt loops with our hands under it, so the whip sat in the crease of our arm. It was really good for me because I tend to tilt forward on Ryn because of her gaits. So having the whip right infront of me help to keep me even over her back and reminding me to sit back.
While the 2nd group rode we were watching them to help develop our eye on more advanced points rather than just the basic eye of correct leads, and posting diagonals. We had to write down what each rider tends to do, good and bad. Judy really was working on us to have constructive criticism, not just pointing about bad things about each rider.
Day #3:
Today we talked over what we observed watching the lessons yesterday. Then did more exercises before getting on. We did more strengthening exercises vs. stretching and loosening. That was not good for me! I realized I am stronger than I thought. (Again thank you green horses) Which is good, but I should have stretched more because once I got on Ryn I was so tight and so was she. We had no stirrups and neck straps to hold on to-to try to plug on our seats. Not good for Ryn at all. I tried to just work her through it but then Judy gave me back my stirrups and said no strap. Ryn's back still isn't strong enough to sit the trot successfully. Plus, Her trot is huge and I cannot sit it yet. After we changed that Judy had us do another exercise. We had two whips, and we crossed them like X so the horses wither was in between the upper V.
This helped us stay straight and made us learn how to flex with our wrists instead of pulling. This worked great with Ryn. By then end of the lesson she was up and carrying herself nicely. If we did a 1st lvl test at that moment we could have done pretty good. It was nice to bring Ryn to the camp because the last time Judyad seen us, we were not pretty. I looked like a hunt seat rider, and she looked like a giraffe. :)
This coming weekend is our pony clubs Ultimate 2-phase! Fun fun!
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