Bella Lesson 9 Video

Bella’s training is going really well, we’ve had her just over a year now and her confidence about what we’re asking her is just lovely to watch. This video shows how the games we started with a year ago are progressing and shows just how far she’s come with understanding it all now. Hope you enjoy watching as much as I enjoy playing 😉

 

 

  • Shelley – HorseSavvy

 

Bella Lesson 8 Video

Update on our Riding skills. These patterns used with my focus/energy/weight/leg cues will encourage Bella to turn with those cues and I’ll be using my reins less and less.

  1. Corners. This is the updated version of P2Ps, now without the obstacle we focus on the corners and use them for a breath halt and trying not to use the reins unless needed.
  2. X-Box. Using the centre as X where things change….direction, gait, pattern.
  3. Clover Leaf. Straight lines and curves again using X as the centre to halt after the rotations of the leaf pattern thereby building more walk and trot and less halt.

 

  • Shelley – HorseSavvy

 

Bella’s Lesson – Moving Circles with P2Ps

We tried these moving circles with P2P’s touch it’s to the jump wing obstacles a couple of days ago and she was sceptical and took a while to figure out the new pattern even though she knows all the parts of it. Putting more games together now is making our conversations more fluid but it does take time to progress to this refinement.

This video is literally just the 2nd time we’ve done this and I was blown away with the quickness of her learning. I did make sure there was a day between these where she had time to process the information and try again with new knowledge….here it is…

 

 

  • Shelley – HorseSavvy