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Don't you love when things click in your mind and you finally understand something you had been trying so long to understand? I'm not talking about understanding my wife, mind you. I don't know if that will ever click for me. But I or we get along great, Probably because I let her do what she wants and she lets me do what she wants to. :} How did I get on that? O Yeah, I was talking about things clicking in my mind. Its a wonder to me that I can watch how to supple my horse or get a lead change on a video demonstration or in my horsemanship class and not get it. Not quite understand what is required. But voila I got it yesterday. I had been working on other things and watched someone else demonstrate lead changes. so when I was riding Raven for just a wee bit yesterday, it was hot, I did some suppling exercises and then thought I will try a lead change from a walk. ( a lead refers to the front leg the horse is leading with in a canter. If I am going clockwise I want the horse in a right lead, vice versa for the left lead) I did as demonstrated and worked through some clumsiness on my part and got it. Then moved her up to a trot and did it, she began to move in to the lead I was asking for. Then I thought I am going to try a flying lead change (for those who don't know it is changing the lead of a horse without dropping down to a trot from a canter.) I did this by simply moving my seat and legs to the proper position for the intended lead (which is simply putting my right leg forward and left leg back for a right lead, this also changes my seat) and she went into the correct lead. I was so happy I did this a few more times on a figure eight pattern and then quit while I was ahead. Besides, time was running out and I needed to go do what Sharon wanted since she was home from work.
Bye the way we are starting to learn spanish so if you hear us talking a little wierd you know what we are doing. We have wanted to for a long time, but I just a bought 'Virtual Spanish' and we start today.
Anyway, that's all today.
Hope the light clicks for you.