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On Saturday I was a relative mess. Trudi was rarin' to go and I flopped around gracelessly for the most part. I wanted very much to take that energy and use it wisely, but it was just not happening. I found that the inability to apply an effective halfhalt increases in direct proportion to the need for one. Every once in a while I'd give a bit of leg and catch the energy and use it for a bigger step with more flexion in the joint- but these were rare moments. I was much too "handy" and realized it after the fact- I need to just put them where they need to be and get back to the business of the hind and the back and the neck and ignore her being fussy. My legs, man, I don't even KNOW what was up there. They just kept creeping forward and up. I was also constantly looking down, which I also thought I'd fixed, but apparantly I felt the need to look down at the dip that kept appearing in her neck even though I know it happens when her back stops swinging which of course I can feel. *SIGH*
We also had some dreadful trot work where I was trying to put her together, and she was like "I totally can't" and tried curling, so off we went into a spanking trot and at least re-established forward.
On the other hand, the leg yields have been getting better and the shoulder in (when we do it right) is becoming a big help in putting her together, and there was a point where I was circling her to the right where she was all "I don't WANNA..", being all stiff and resistant and I was just like, "It's cool, I'll wait it out". I did, and she gave, and it was good.
Also had a really super halt and some great walking this weekend after we FINALLY had a few minutes here and there of put-togetherness - walking on absolute SPRINGS.
Twice that day people told me "She's so big!". I replied, as always, that she's only 16 hands, but the amusing thing is that one of the comments came from a girl with a 16.3 Hannoverian tank. I guess Trudi's aura is just larger than life...
We also had some dreadful trot work where I was trying to put her together, and she was like "I totally can't" and tried curling, so off we went into a spanking trot and at least re-established forward.
On the other hand, the leg yields have been getting better and the shoulder in (when we do it right) is becoming a big help in putting her together, and there was a point where I was circling her to the right where she was all "I don't WANNA..", being all stiff and resistant and I was just like, "It's cool, I'll wait it out". I did, and she gave, and it was good.
Also had a really super halt and some great walking this weekend after we FINALLY had a few minutes here and there of put-togetherness - walking on absolute SPRINGS.
Twice that day people told me "She's so big!". I replied, as always, that she's only 16 hands, but the amusing thing is that one of the comments came from a girl with a 16.3 Hannoverian tank. I guess Trudi's aura is just larger than life...
