in the arena.....
long time since i've trotted as much what with the hip, the other things, de dah... needed to be done, i need to work more on it, we got circles, diagonals, working round the other horse in there,
all good bar one glitch - at one point i'd gone back to walk to cross the arena in walk (b - E) and he stopped dead... for no good reason ...
sorry to say, dear readers, i hit him. and i was carrying schooling whip not the short one....
TBH i am well fed up with this random stopping, i am sure it is not me but his stubbornness and having been able to get away with it for such a long time, and sitting being polite to try and get him to move again just doesn't do it for me (and doesn't get him moving) so i thought, well, let's really get after him even though it's not something i normally do or want to do...
worked
hope it won't be necessary in the future, not something i want to make a habit of
so we carried on with the trot and i guess i only did 10 - 15 minutes but that was more than enough.
i doubt if much of it was anything to look at, only one circuit felt as though it was, but i'd decided that forward/energy/etc was the order of the day...
A swat with the whip is not mean when it's needed to reinforce a training issue. You did not overuse it and it had the intended effect. Next time it might take only a tap or just a wave to convince him napping is not an option.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got so much trotting in. That was great!