It was back to Pet tonight, which is a good thing as it gave me a chance to put into practice the things I learned the week before riding on Eli. Once again, had the usual trouble getting Pet up to the post and when I did it was slow and forced. Not the kind of post you want to go up into a canter with. Laura suggested that I actually take him up to canter to get a better post and it worked well...a little reverse horse psychology.
I seemed to have gotten my canter in the correct "wild thing" motion as Laura calls it, which made my canter much smoother and I was able to get Pet in frame easier as well. When I finally went up into canter things went really well. I was in the saddle, kept things pretty much under control and Laura even commented on my arms being relaxed in the right way. I still need to work on the transitions but I’m pretty please with my progress.
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