Kept myself busy today, started with playing with and riding my horse and then I did some freestyle riding with my "bonus"-horse. I haven't been riding my horse for over a week since his friends bit him on the back... nice! I have been able to ride bareback, that way I was in the middle of the wounds, but my comfort zone riding bareback isnt big enough to do the simple lead changes that way... and that's what I've got to do to prepare us for our lesson next sunday. I've done some passanger lesson at walk bareback and I've been ridden into the trailer when trailerloading but today was first time with a saddle doing lead changes in a while. He did an awesome job and had a calm nice canter. Started with riding him bareback from the field to the arena, we're working on him helping me mount by using his neck and that's something we have to do play with more!
After checking the canter and the lead changes I decided to take the saddle of and increase my comfort zone by cantering bareback. That's something that I feel ok with trailriding but not in the arena, before today I had only done that once and just a few steps. It felt suprisingly well! It was abit awkward for him at first since I was really tense and couldnt relax in my legs but after doing some corners game with it (the corners was for me to rest in haha) it felt alot better, think we did at least 2-3 laps. It felt so good that I decided to ride back to the field, but ofc something had to happen so after a few steps cantering I did a spontaneous dismount... But at least my day was 99 % good! ;)
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