Beautiful day

Basic conditioning ride with alittle leg yield thrown in.

Good work out today

Worked on head to wall LY, bit grumpy. Trot canter transitions on a circle. SI, HI, Trot Halt trot transitions, regular leg yield at walk and trot, cavalettis long and low at the end.

Windy and Rainy

Yesterday: lunge and cavaletti
Today: Head to wall LY, canter trot transitions

Clinic Report (con"t)

Ways to collect:
frequent transitions skipping a gait, 5 strides canter, 5 walk, also trot halt transitions

Tension- don't do transitions do suppling ex.

Tipping head- blocked in poll
+1.-1 at walk, flip crest at halt with turnkey wrist
So +1 and uberst. to see if stays flexed at both rising trot and canter

Jane Savoie Clinic

Rainy and cold today , day off, so I'll write up my clinic report.

Suppling: Do 3 (+7) w/ key turn hand, hold outside rein and straighten with outside rein. Go 7 strides and repeat. Can do to outside too.

3 test of suppleness during exercise:
1. weight of rein stays the same
2. finish with 3 supplings and neck is down
3. haunches don't swing during suppling

Head to Wall LY
use outside rein like side rein, open inside rein for x-ing and put back quickly

Need connecting 1/2 halts to prevent disconnection

connection 1/2 halt- 3 secs close legs, outside rein, vibrating inner hand

ride 20M circle and accelerate on 10 M circle within

Flexion at the poll, turning key in lock

Exercises to bend hind legs:
Ride walk and trot in first position (baby SI)
Must be straight before collection, gets inside leg to engage and bend. Be ready with inside leg

Collection:
1. withers up, croup down with bending of joints
2. shorter frame
3. More weight on hindend

Conditioning Ride

Rode outside today, will have rain the next few days.
10 min walk
10 min trot
10 min walk
5 min canter
10 min walk
also walked around the new dressage arena and Ceasar was great.

Next time will use the heart moniter
resting HR 35-40
Walk 60-70
canter 170-200
don't go over 220

walk after trot work, HR should be 50% of trot within 30 sec.

Lesson today

Really worked on fixing our crappy LY.
Head to wall to walk then to traveling turn on the forehand
Canter leg yield, just a quick out and back
Watch right hand
LY on the diagonal at the walk, keep parallel to wall
Do transitions within the LY
Work on quick hind legs, and reaction to the aids
trot canter transitions, keep forward into trans. up
Keep round in up and down