We played in the outside ring thursday and my friend Sarah played with Bamboozle with us. Sarah is so cute she is just starting her voyage with Parelli so it's fun to watch her. It reminds me of when I started with Parelli. We had a good time. Sarah takes amazing photos and took some of me and Chiclet.
Chiclet was not in a super playful mood thursday. I just played a little bit and then got on. I thought everything was going well until I cantered. Chiclet was tossing his head at the canter and would not stay cantering. Avery drove in so I asked her to if she could tell me what I'm doing wrong. She watched and then said your not moving your not moving your hind legs so he can't move his hind legs. HHmm how interesting! She told me to move my legs with the canter, it was so cool Chicle stretched down and even was blowing out and I didn't have to push him. It was awesome.
Friday I got to the barn played with Chicle and Avery played with River one of the horses she has for training. Chicle had a big blow up before I got on. One of the horses turned out beside the outdoor ring was running like crazy so Chicle thought there must be a huge bear in the woods and it's going to eat him NOT! Avery yells to me use his energy......Change directions every half circle. Holly crap I've never seen him so fired up he was doing flying changes totally right brain so it was a mess. I think I went a little right brain too! It felt like I was never going to get him back but it took about 10 minutes and he started to breath his head stretched down. I asked him to come in he looked at me like holly crap what just happened? The funny thing was I could feel myself coming down from the adrenalin rush too. He was pretty cooked but I rode anyway. He was really tight and still looking for the bear a little bit. Avery talked me through it she said just keep riding. I rode for about a hour the he finally felt soft so off on a trail ride we went. Boy is Avery really making me realize where my comfort level is and challenge me to step out of it. It's so funny because she just comes out with something and it's like just do it don't think about it to much. I so need that I'm a over thinker sometimes.
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