Post by kelsey2 on Jul 31, 2007 19:06:28 GMT -3
OK, so a little info about me and Dawn first. Her show/registered name is Tontos Super Sport, she is from Manatoiba, but my uncle bought her for me from Jimmy Wilsons ex wife. haha. so anywayz, we are working on reining, and its going awesome!!! just to keep in mind that our bigest problem is her head. It likes to fly high, but were in the process of trying to fix it.And well ive been a level 3 (western) rider since..like...2 years ago? something like that and im 15. Oh and Dawn is 6.We also have a big disadvantage because we dont have a arena. So we use our padock, and drive way. so yea..we try to do what we can, between our lesson every friday night with Katrina. well thats it so im gonna tell you all about our ride today.
so i started out just doing some hip and shoulder movements, to loosein up a bit. our hip movement was to help with our flyings( although i cant do them home, its nice to keep that hip moving free) and our shoulder movements to get her loose in the front for our spins. so after that we did some spins, and they were great. she has gotten much faster. then we did some jogging, and collection to get that head. Then we tried an excersie that helps with our stops, and that wasent going very good. i could tell she was getting fustrated, and i was too so i decide to take her for a walk down the raod to a dirt path and just help to calm down. After that i decide not to try that excerise again, because i dont want us to get worked up were we hae some stuff to do to get ready for the show. so we did some rollbacks, and more of the collection, then it got really warm so we cooled out and i put her away. So it was pretty good, and i did see an improvment in our spins. so yea that was it.
so i started out just doing some hip and shoulder movements, to loosein up a bit. our hip movement was to help with our flyings( although i cant do them home, its nice to keep that hip moving free) and our shoulder movements to get her loose in the front for our spins. so after that we did some spins, and they were great. she has gotten much faster. then we did some jogging, and collection to get that head. Then we tried an excersie that helps with our stops, and that wasent going very good. i could tell she was getting fustrated, and i was too so i decide to take her for a walk down the raod to a dirt path and just help to calm down. After that i decide not to try that excerise again, because i dont want us to get worked up were we hae some stuff to do to get ready for the show. so we did some rollbacks, and more of the collection, then it got really warm so we cooled out and i put her away. So it was pretty good, and i did see an improvment in our spins. so yea that was it.
