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Inspired decision
Mar. 31st, 2006 09:24 amOn Wednesday I was at an "inspiration day", which is a day of seminars aimed at women in the workplace. I'll write more about it later; I have a lot of notes that I need to clean up before posting.
During one of the seminars we were told to think about one thing that we wanted to do, and make a decision to actually do it during 2006, and tell our neighbour about it. I decided to participate in a dressage contest. I've wanted to improve my riding and participate in contests for a while, but I haven't actually gotten around to doing anything about it.
I ride two horses,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jegras Samurai and gnapps Skutt. Jegra is a very good trainer but she doesn't have a lot of time. Eva, the owner of the stable where Skutt lives is also a trainer, and this weekend she's going to hold lessons at the stable where Samurai lives.
So yesterday I calledjegra and got permission to take lessons on Samurai. She likes what she's heard of how Eva works so she's OK with it and said she'll come along and help me with caring for the horses if she's got the time. There was still an open slot in the course, so I'm booked up for lessons both on Saturday and Sunday. And next week Eva's going to give me a lesson on Skutt. This should be very interesting - having a trainer see me ride on two so very different horses should make it easier for her to find out what I need to practice rather than on what the horse needs to learn, so to speak.
And yesterday I took Skutt out for a short walk and trot along the road outside the stable. Now, when you trot, there are two ways of riding. You can do the "bump" thing where you lift from the saddle on every second step and sit on every second one, or you can sit down the whole time. Sitting in trot is difficult, because the horse moves up and down very quickly, so you need to have a good seat to be able to follow his movements and not just bounce around uncomfortably. And for a short while I managed it - I moved with the horse, not just up-and-down but also left-and-right - it's left-up-down-right-up-down-left-up-down and so on... and it felt so good to have that perfect connection!
During one of the seminars we were told to think about one thing that we wanted to do, and make a decision to actually do it during 2006, and tell our neighbour about it. I decided to participate in a dressage contest. I've wanted to improve my riding and participate in contests for a while, but I haven't actually gotten around to doing anything about it.
I ride two horses,
jegras Samurai and gnapps Skutt. Jegra is a very good trainer but she doesn't have a lot of time. Eva, the owner of the stable where Skutt lives is also a trainer, and this weekend she's going to hold lessons at the stable where Samurai lives.So yesterday I called
jegra and got permission to take lessons on Samurai. She likes what she's heard of how Eva works so she's OK with it and said she'll come along and help me with caring for the horses if she's got the time. There was still an open slot in the course, so I'm booked up for lessons both on Saturday and Sunday. And next week Eva's going to give me a lesson on Skutt. This should be very interesting - having a trainer see me ride on two so very different horses should make it easier for her to find out what I need to practice rather than on what the horse needs to learn, so to speak. And yesterday I took Skutt out for a short walk and trot along the road outside the stable. Now, when you trot, there are two ways of riding. You can do the "bump" thing where you lift from the saddle on every second step and sit on every second one, or you can sit down the whole time. Sitting in trot is difficult, because the horse moves up and down very quickly, so you need to have a good seat to be able to follow his movements and not just bounce around uncomfortably. And for a short while I managed it - I moved with the horse, not just up-and-down but also left-and-right - it's left-up-down-right-up-down-left-up-down and so on... and it felt so good to have that perfect connection!
