Today we worked on how I hold my body when going to the right. I tend to collapse in and drop my right shoulder, and this became very obvious to Leah one day when I wore a sweater with a strong horizontal band across the upper back/yoke. Since then, I try to wear [...]
I want to thank everyone for the good words of support and encouragement as I transition from Gabby to Moe. You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em, which is what my mom said when she retired from teaching at Michigan State University, and I’m glad I didn’t endure (horse-wise) [...]
“So much for Buckingham,” says the soon-to-be Richard III (he’s still, what, Richard Plantagenet at this point?) after dispatching yet another rival to the throne in Shakespeare’s Richard III (or not).
So much for getting behind riding and trotting over poles and such. God’s Wounds but I was nervous last night. It took forEVer for us [...]
So does anyone out there have any hints or tips about how to fall? How do you train your arms to stay close to your body instead of trying to brace with them? Is it a Martial Arts thing? A Yoga thing? I’ve thought about trying to fall (when no one is around, of course) [...]
Now I am a real horsewoman because I have fallen off THREE times. The first time was in 1971 when I was 11, the second was in 2005 when I was 45, and the third was this week at age 46.
According to barn custom, I owe to the barn in general, so I hope to [...]
A former co-worker and I were talking horses one day. She returned to riding as an adult too, though now she has drifted away again due to family responsibilities. She said that once she started taking two lessons a week, she got very sore and lived on Ibuprofen.
I wondered if the same would hold true [...]
My bra straps slip down off of my right shoulder and I’ve always blamed it on the bra. “Darn cheap bra,” I’d grumble,then go out and buy an expensive one — or more than likely another cheap-ish (but not cheap-o) bra and within, oh, say, 48 hours, the whole process would repeat itself. But we [...]
I bought a cheap pedometer at K-Mart several months back when I thought I would try (again) to take up jogging. Jogging, I have determined, hurts my knees regardless of how much stretching and whatnot takes place beforehand. Therefore, I will avoid jogging. Walking is good enough.
So last night during my lesson I clipped it [...]
I did it! I did it! I rode bareback! Leah wanted me to try it out and so for the event, I rode another horse, a beautiful gal with blue eyes named Sadie who is, as described by Leah, “a picnic table with legs.” That’s because she has a very flat trot, not because you [...]
This evening, my teacher told me I’d reached a plateau and in this case, it’s a good thing! I am IMPROVING!!! I’ve gotten vastly better at keeping my leg underneath and still which makes my sitting trot better which improves my 2-point. 2-point looks more like the way a jocky sits; butt up off the [...]
