Harassed Berky with his new hoof dressing and Surpass for a while today and then went out to the somewhat sloggy arena to do some walk-trot. He's really starting to use himself better tracking left, but he's stiff going right. Nice flexion at the poll, worked on some bending and a potato-like circle. Only rode in earnest for thirty minutes, maybe.
He keeps getting knots in his neck, and while they seem to have gotten better over the past few days of correct riding and massaging, it is really starting to bother me. If they're still there in a few days, I'll have to call out the equine massage therapist.
Anyways, I got the bright idea to drop my stirrups when we were walking out since my leg is so weak and ended up extending our ride for quite a while. Posting walk was miserable, but not as bad as I thought it would be given my time off. Two-point (link for Tyler or other nonhorsey people) without stirrups was ten times worse- I could barely get my fat butt out of the saddle and my knee angle was all but nonexistant. Needless to say, I spent about twenty minutes attempting to hold it, so my legs are killing me. Picked up stirrups and held two-point again for ten minutes to build up my calves, and then called it a day.
Berky didn't seem to mind my varying degrees of floppiness- in fact, I had my reins on the buckle so I couldn't lean on him, and he was slogging around like a western pleasure horse, as compared to the dressage (only, not Grand Prix, obviously. More like training level..if that.) movement we obviously work for.
For Tyler: Flying dressage horses. ( Haute Ecole) Or, flying dressage horses under saddle!
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