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16.02.2008 11:42

Lessons with Mette Manseth 2

Bragur had a good night in Torfunes and was relaxed when we arrived in the morning. This time I longed him before riding and he was trotting just fine, reacting well on what I asked him to do.
Mette divided the riding hall into 2 parts and explained the following exercise to me. It's the so called "passenger exercise". The rider is just a passenger, the horse is allowed to choose where to go, but the rider doesn't allow it to stop in corners or at the gate. If the horse tries to do that, the rider has to push it forward.
The reason she suggested this exercise for Bragur and his problem with trott was, that he was so busy and stressed with thinking about where to go, that he couldn't relax and trott.
I was not allowed to touch the rein, Bragur was free to go everywhere. Sometimes I had to push him quite a lot forward and he was galloping and galloping circels in the riding hall. He was allowed to relax (I didn't push him) in the part of the riding hall, farest away from the gate. Soon he realised that and in the end he started to relax and trott! When he was trotting I allowed him to slow down to walk.
In the afternoon we did the same exercise again and this time it was even shorter till he started to trott! And he was going from walk straight to trott a few times!
I was surprised that we got him to trott so fast and really proud and happy about it. Now I'll work on a bit like that and hope that he starts trotting faster and faster!
In a few weeks there are next lessons with Mette and I already signed in for them *g*

In the evening was Icetölt in Akureyri and our friend Gisli was competing too. Of course we had to go and watch!
There were 68 riders, always 2 together in a group. First they showed slow tölt and then fast tölt on the long sides of the icehall. It was impressive to see the horses run on this slippery ground! I'm looking forward to the coming icecompetitions and hope the weather will be fine so we can go and watch them!
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