Bbbbrrrrrrrr!!! It was a bit chilly in this lesson to say the least! Fortunately it was just frost on the surface of the arena, not ice, so we could still ride on it and it broke up quickly underfoot. We just stuck to walk and trot to be on the safe side, but it gave us a great opportunity to practice some more advanced pole work! I know this video is super long, but I really wanted you to see how we built up slowly, making the exercise slightly more difficult with each go until it became one longer complex exercise comprising of flat poles, straight cavaletti, cavaletti on a curve, all with lots of walk transitions thrown in for good measure! The point of the walk transitions before & in between the sets of poles was to both keep the horses listening to us to stop them trying to rush through, and to really get them into a collected, bouncy/powerful trot before tackling the more tricky raised poles to encourage them to lift themselves a bit more. Magic coped so well with everything and the fact we built up so slowly meant that he didn’t get rushy at any point, which is his go-to when he finds something hard and just wants to get it over with. The cavaletti/raised poles on a curve is a very technical and complex exercise for the horses as it really makes them have to engage their core & hind end to lift their legs high enough, whilst maintaining momentum, rhythm and bend through the curving line. Considering this time last year Magic couldn’t do even basic trot poles without trying to canter through them, and point blank refused to do walk transitions before/after them, I think it’s fair to say he’s really starting to get the hang of this more technical sort of thing now! The fact he now has the strength to even attempt this type of work shows how far he has come and how much he has changed for the better, both physically & mentally. Not gonna lie, I felt so proud of him after this lesson because it’s so lovely to ride a horse who really tries his best, even when they’re finding it hard and not necessarily naturally built for this kind of fancy-pants schooling! 😄
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