Roode felt good today, but I did not feel like I rode too well. I continue to have problems with my left outside rein. I think to keep the contact there but I continually fall short of making it effective when I need to make him through in the body. Roode feels stiff in the right jaw and so I flexion and keep the contact there without giving him the chance to really move into the left rein where I want him. Without much notice, instead of giving him balance with a light inside rein, I would actually be hanging and working too hard for inside bend. When I finally got that old feeling for a split second where he became more balanced and pumped I could focus more on it and develop it again and again but the feeling only lasted for a constant of maybe 5 strides before I would have to get it together again. It was great work after solving that problem.
I am really trying to develop more cadence and schwung with Roode. He has every bit of it in him but it’s never his first choice. In trying to make him stronger with this, he is generally making a lot of progress. But, I want often want to make his neck too short. Herr Schmidt keeps telling me to take more of the curb on the outside and more of the snaffle on the inside when Roode gets too against the bit in the moment that I try to make a better trot or canter, and without making the neck short.
I am really trying to develop more cadence and schwung with Roode. He has every bit of it in him but it’s never his first choice. In trying to make him stronger with this, he is generally making a lot of progress. But, I want often want to make his neck too short. Herr Schmidt keeps telling me to take more of the curb on the outside and more of the snaffle on the inside when Roode gets too against the bit in the moment that I try to make a better trot or canter, and without making the neck short.
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