Riding – Page 25 – Virtual Brush Box

So Be It

Note: I wrote this on Tuesday as a companion piece to Wednesday’s post [Universe]. In real time, I’m starting to get a handle on the monkeys. However, I have no doubt they will start screaming again. Therefore, I’m letting this post stand. After everything that has happened with Rodney, being bucked off Milton first moveContinue reading “So Be It”

Did I Piss Off the Universe and Not Notice?

Readers may have noted a lack of Miltonicity in the recent posts. There’s a reason. I rode last weekend. It did not go well. One … Two … Three … Immediately after the third photo, Milton kicked the barrel, had a complete cow, and dumped me. I held on long enough to have a niceContinue reading “Did I Piss Off the Universe and Not Notice?”

re: Posting Trot in Saddle Seat

(I had this as a response to a comment yesterday. Then I thought, Aha A Post and moved it.) Q: How on earth do you rise in the trot without the stirrup leg to balance you? Core strength? … The basic assumption I am making is that you are pivoting from your knee in SaddleContinue reading “re: Posting Trot in Saddle Seat”

Back To Basics

The posting trot is the centerpiece of saddle seat, at least as long as one is three-gaiting. In equitation, you wow the judge at the trot and then try not to lose the class at the canter. However, it has been a red-headed stepchild in everything else I’ve done. In hunters & jumpers you trotContinue reading “Back To Basics”

Rodney’s Week: Pool, Pen, & TENS

Minus Saddle Time, or not We have offered to return the saddle that the saddle fitter left on loan [Finding One That Fits]. If I’m just going to sit on him, a bareback pad works fine and carries less baggage. No reason to drag out the whole suit of armor until he can 1) trotContinue reading “Rodney’s Week: Pool, Pen, & TENS”

Clinic Report: Saddle Seat with Christy Parker

A post-show clinic by the judge, Christy Parker of Pine Haven Stables & Riding Academy, Brunswick, Georgia. Day One: Private Since this was immediately after the show wherein I performed so exceedingly well [Show Report], the lesson was on getting the left lead canter. Since this was a lesson not a show, of course weContinue reading “Clinic Report: Saddle Seat with Christy Parker”

New Equipment: Weights

1lb weights to build up my fingers and wrists, per new riding paradigm [MSSP]. Riding does not require brute strength. I don’t wish to yank on the horse’s mouth with Hulk-like fists of doom. Riding requires endurance. The longer I can survive making subtle adjustments, the less likely I will be to start waving myContinue reading “New Equipment: Weights”