Dressage Clinic Video: Part 1

Here's the first part of the clinic back in November.  This was Cadence's second ride of the day, as we'd participated in a demonstration earlier on.

Clinic Report: Friday

Friday, I had the wonderful opportunity to sleep in!  How odd.  I don't know how long its been since I had a whole morning and (almost) nothing to do.  However, following my usual trend of bad luck (see my list of disasters from Murdoch Mysteries) I woke up feeling sick.  At first, my sleep addled brain just plugged it down to nerves.  I thought thatwas odd, as I hadn't really been nervous.  Plus, I'd never felt that ill from nerves before.  After actually being physically sick, I realized that this must be something more than just nerves.  So the quest became finding something that would settle my stomch, and not put me to sleep.  With that settled, I made myself some breakfast (with my appetite magically restored, and my "nerves" miraculously disappeared) and sat down to waste away the next two hours.  Oh the joys of the internet!
I arrived at the barn at around noon, an hour after the clinic was supposed to start.  Belinda had been detained with an emergency phone call for a 1/2 hour, so we were actually running a 1/2 hour behind schedule. I ended up getting to watch a little bit of everyone's ride, which was an unexpected treat.

Clinic Pictures!

The title pretty much says it all...

Clinic: Success

In short, the Belinda Trussell Clinic was a huge success.  Most of the riders were other students of my coach's ,so it was nice since I knew almost everyone.  We had a lot of auditors though, especially since a bunch of kinds from the pony club came to audit as well.  Currently, I'm exhausted. I think I'll be eating dinner and then heading off to bed, but I'll try to write a more detailed recap of what we learned, what we worked on, and all that fun stuff.  It just won't be tonight!  Oh, and I have pictures... just not on the computer.  I'll try to upload them asap.

Almost Missed It!

Im writing this from my iPod, while lying in bed at 11:45 pm. I have already missed one day; I won't be missing another!
Tomorrow's the first day of the Belinda Trussel clinic, and while I'm a tad nervous (there are goi g to be a lot of auditors!) i am more excited than anything else. Actually, i think im more tired than anything else.
For now, I shall bid you good night. Wish us luck tomorrow!

Saturday Chills

The sun is shining, but there aren't many birds chirping in these sub zero temperatures.  And to think that it was 64 degrees earlier this week....  I warmed up for my lesson this morning with a long sleeved shirt, a coat, a vest, a quarter sheet, and my winter gloves on.  Brrrrrr.
The lesson itself went well though.  Cadence had fully recuperated in her day off, and was a little strong today.  It was nothing unmanageable, but its too bad I didn't get to show off how wonderful she's been this past week.  We did some basic leg-yielding stuff in the trot (yay!) and worked on moving her shoulders.  Additionally, maintaining the bend and working that right rein played key roles in the morning's activities.  my coach suggested that after she's had a day off, we lunge before riding to get some of herenergy out so that we can focus more on the work and not spend the first 20 minutes of the ride dealing with her 'silliness'.
We also had a chance to speak about the clinic.  Apparently I have to display all of Cadence and my loveliness to a group of auditors, and the local pony club!  Oh the joy.  In addition, my coach said that we may be chosen as demonstrators for a talk on contact that Belinda is giving the pony clubbers.  We also talked about food for the lunch (much more exciting, IMO) and turnout/attire.  I can't wait!  Now, if only I could fast forward to the end of mid-terms, all would be well with the world.

Happy Halloween!

I've been a bad, bad person; I've neglected my blog.  Anyhow, I've got some big and sad news that I'm ALMOST finished writing about, and will post tomorrow... I think.
There's also some good news: I have the distinct pleasure of getting to take part in a clinic with Belinda Trussell!  For those of you who don't know who that is, click the link.  I'd write out an explination, but why bother when somebody else has already done it for me?
Also, my pony's on the interweb!  He's made it onto the front cover of his barn's website.  God I miss him.
To all those who happen to read this before it's November: ejoy your Halloween, don't poison any children, and go ahead and eat that chocolate... nobody has to know ;)

Well that's different...