The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT

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[Beaker]

Hey everyone. I just got back from my ride, and it was pretty good. I got to ride the appy schoolmaster again, and worked on brushing up my canter transitions. Oy I also did some work without stirrups, and while they shouldn't be, my legs are killing me. I did lots of grabbing with my knees today instead of just relaxing and letting the horse carry me. :-p So I guess it was a good ride in that I accomplished what I wanted to, but it was also a stiff ride. I also got to test out my new paddock boots. I traded the Ariat riding sneakers for them because they didn't have my size. It was muddy today, so they got broken in nice and good!

[CindyDawg]

Great job. Glad you got rid of the shoes. I'm at work. I thought about testing SL today but gonna wait til tomorrow. Tired:')

[CindyDawg]

Weren't you thinking about riding at your school? Did it work out?

[ShakeNJake]

Riding without stirrups is good for your seat. Periodically, I will cross my stirrups in front of me and ride part of a session without them.

One of the dressage greats, Nuno Oliveiro, did the same thing until the day he died. When asked why he still did that, he answered that he was still working on his seat.

[Duchess47]

Glad you had a good ride :)

Everyone is so productive today except me. It's cold and windy here, not "fit for man nor beast"

[Beaker]

I did think about riding with the equestrian team, but they do all hunter/jumper, and I really just want to focus on dressage. Plus... they're all snobs, and I just don't want to deal with that. :-)

[Beaker]

My trainer also puts me on the lunge line once in a while so that I can focus on my seat. It's an excellent excercise.

[Beaker]

Well hey, when it's cold, stay where's it's warm. :-) It was in the mid 50s here today. Beautiful. We've really really lucked out with weather.

[CindyDawg]

Nah. Stay away from snobs:')

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Hey we did get some rain. A fair amount. It was a good slow soaking one. I haven't heard how much, but it was nice.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

It's cold windy, AND rainy here all day:) But it's made me lazy. I haven't done a thing constructive other then go watch a pine wood derby my grandson had a car in:) That was fun. The rest of the day I've just sat in my chair and read.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Riding without stirrups is good for your seat. Periodically, I will cross my stirrups in front of me and ride part of a session without them.

One of the dressage greats, Nuno Oliveiro, did the same thing until the day he died. When asked why he still did that, he answered that he was still working on his seat.

This was the lead rider at the Lippizaner Exhibition we went to last summer... He is landing a ~courbette~ I think, or a ~levade~, and he has lost his stirrup. :~D

[HairOfTheDog]

We had rain, and hail!

We've been watching season 4 of 24. We had only ever seen the last half, now I'm caught up on ~all~ the history :~D

[Beaker]

You can see his butt coming out of the saddle, but still, he looks pretty secure and confident. Those riders are amazing, and their legs are so long! It makes me jealous. :-)

I lost both my stirrups in the canter today (slippery new boots) and I stayed secure. It was like I didn't lose them at all. One went and and I thought "aww heck" and just kept going, and then the other went and I thought, "Why am I not on the ground?" I was so impressed and shocked that I nearly fell off the horse anyway! (All the no stirrup work I did today I did at the trot.) It just goes to show how much my seat has improved since I've worked with this trainer. She's a gem.

[CindyDawg]

I need to get back to that. I really depend on my stirrups but it's just not fun for me, working without them.

[Duchess47]

Hey - rain is outstanding. I'm so glad you got some finally :)

[Duchess47]

I complain alot about winter (you probably remember that from last year) but so far, it's really been pretty mild. However, today has be miserable :)

[CindyDawg]

I took a silly test on another thread on what kind of weather person I was. I came out sunshine. I wanted a storm so I went back and played democrat to make it happen:')

[CindyDawg]

Mornin yall. (Yawn) I stayed up late watching tv. Starsky and Hutch movie of all things . Did we really used to dress and look like that? lol

[Beaker]

We've had some miserable days with snow and rain and cold and wet, and a couple of weeks ago we had a mini "hurricane" with 60 mph winds. Crazy weather. It's supposed to get up to 49 with rain later today.