Following yesterday's lesson we approached our work today with a more positive attitude. That said Charlie always has a positive attitude to schoolwork. As usual we started in Vienna reins on the lunge.
First bit of success 95% of transitions into trot on both reins showed no toss of the head. I gave him lots of warm up in walk as it is so cold and did spirals in and out and another plus he has learnt not to rush the trot on BOTH reins.
In trot I concentrated on getting near his quarters so he was stepping under with his inside hind.
I decided to try the slow trot on the short end and up the pace on the long side. He has this down to a fine art on the good rein but last time I tried it on his weak rein threw himself at it fell into the middle and tanked.
Well today result. I repeated the exercise on his weak rein and there was a dip of the head a sort of moment of suspension and an increase in trot pace whoo hoo!
We did some pole work and I reminded myself that the first time we used poles he was very erratic on his weak rein not so now.
I popped on board for the end of the session and we had the odd head toss in walk but I know it's up to me to ride that correctly. We had some very nice work some lovely trot transitions and all of it with a lovely soft back under the saddle.
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