Well here we are on Wednesday no further forward.
I don't think we have gone backwards we have moved forward at a tangent and are now in a different place.
I lunged Charlie in the Pessoa Saturday and did some successful groundwork.
I decided I had to know what element of the shoulder in made him rear so I broke it down into building blocks. I probably went over the top with treats as each stage got a reward but he did a very acceptable bit of shoulder in on both reins very happily twice by the time I had finished. I am now wondering if the lunge whip under my elbow flapped and startled him we ditched it to do the work this time.
We repeated this work on Monday i had some lovely lungework and he is beginning to understand increase and decrease of pace in trot. However when I rode I had head tossing again and Charlie invoked a new issue. A sort of napping rear only tiny but.......angst kicks in big time for me.
So Tuesday we had our Tori lesson things went very well and we discussed my hands and contact as the head tossing only occurs when I am on board. We had another of the mini rears too which we felt was him napping near the gate.
Fast forward to today lunge work in Vienna reins then some ridden work.
Hoorah no head tossing ✔
Do some trotwork and the napping mini rears appear but only on the right rein can't work out if its napping or not they are fixed by a positive leg application and in one case a bit of a boot X
It seems odd that once forward again he feels lovely so has he got a problem or is it something we need to work through?
I think only time will tell
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