This Sunday -- Training level 1 and 2! I hope we can pick up our canter promptly, and I hope it goes well. I love the Digital Horse video of the training levels, this is just want I want when practicing the tests in my head. The only thing missing is my own voice over...
Thanks Jane Savoie for your "perfect practice makes perfect" concept. Now when I practice my test I put in everything I need to remember, in the places it matters. My own list:
- Half halt (before and after every movement)
- Look up and around (corners, circles)
- Open thigh, relax leg, sit around the horse (throughout)
- Tighten core (throughout), control posting (throughout)
- Inside seatbone, outside leg (circles, corners)
- Hands down, apart (circles, corners)
- Swoopy hips, inside thigh, outside leg (canter depart)
- Shoulders back, open thigh, sit deep (canter trot transition)
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Good luck!
ReplyDeleteColor-coding, classical music, and a red horse icon for double coefficients. How adorably left-brained! I want it.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
I love the phrase "swoopy hips" - perfect!
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
The Digital Horse stuff is great. Not sure what happened to mine when I had my computer fixed.
ReplyDeleteYou are going to have a grand time showing your boy.
Good Luck !! Rosie and I are doing Intro's and equitation this weekend. Her first ever show - so keeping it easy.
ReplyDeleteThe Youtube video is great, but sounds like one of my old ballet classes! We look forward to hearing how you two do.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be better if the narrator said in his monotone voice, "Don't panic" directly before the canter transitions.
ReplyDeleteYou and Ri are going to be GREAT! Can't wait to hear how it goes:)
ReplyDeleteGarden that is such a great comment! In my interior monologue I when come up to the canter I would definitely add that.
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