Notes on Apr 28 session ID’ing and helping Try when she loses confidence
1. Online
a. Yoyo: not stopping with life down is an escape. Solution after my life goes down to signal a stop and she keeps going my life comes back up to match and keep asking until she decides to stop. Playing her game at that point. This helps her go from RB escaping back to LB.
b. 360 FQ turn from me in Z3 or further back—goal is to plant the outside HQ foot so she is not escaping and thus stepping across with the inside hind foot—just stay with it until she figures out the answer then release—so the good deal and answer for her is to not escape.
c. Circling game: transitions from leading rein—the idea is that a RB horse is assisted by using porcupine game instead of driving. (porcupine the least used of the 3 main games) Steady pressure is like hand holding. (remember Target’s need for contact at the canter.)
d. Z5 driving without driving—again using porcupine game—game is she can’t go back—only answer is taking charge and going forward like GoC reins mean go. So I ask for one front foot then the other until she figures out to go.
2. Riding
a. Everything is transitions from a leading rein—porcupine. Actually Try was LB in the ring. Difficult transition was asking for the canter from a leading rein and my energy without kissing. Actually BA had been telling me NOT to kiss also—puts too much pressure on the horse—Try gets snippy and Spiderman got more nervous.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
April 13 phone call with Dan T re humanality report/match
Humanality/Horsenality Match Thoughts
Humanality
• The RBE/LBE match is interesting but Try is LBI so I have asked for a new report.
• Try and I are fairly compatible as far as energy goes we are both cusp and can go easily one way or the other—the goal for me is to see where SHE is and act in accordance.
• Positive chart: 27 points RBE, RBI, LBI, LBE all about 15 point. Asking friends—law wives put me RBE, BA and Dan put me RBE. Curiously high school BF puts me LBI.
• RBE: I recognize this as appropriate to my life experiences including being cautious of LBEs. I go most RBE with LBEs i.e. Linda, BA but am drawn to them. I also get really RBE when leading a group and feel the need to be sure everyone is happy, excited, motivated etc.
• I want to be aware of the tendency toward too much people and horse pleasing.
• From the humanality I have particularly noted that I am over sensitive, and if hurt will pull away from people causing confusion for them.
Match with Try as LBE
• P4 says we are both active, fast to react and quick to get frustrated. I think I am more active and fast to react and Try is quicker to get frustrated. See later notes Dan phone call on frustration.
• Also that we enjoy each other’s playfulness and we do not—does Try only play dominance—I don’t see much pure joyful physical exuberance. Try’s playfulness is usually introverted play.
• I also don’t see much from Try of too much energy that needs challenging and if its there I am capable of working with it confidently.
• P6 Try when I’ve not been there drawn to me and in mind reading frame of mind. Canter to me when RB/ more drawn when ill etc. Attracted to Chris Shallcross and Annie Shank—introverts. So she often likes slow, introverted, caring energies.
• P8 L3 is different than L1 for us both!! I am much less emotional or frustrated and I do always go to the barn with a plan and the ability to readjust the plan quickly.
• However, Consistency and giving up within a session is an issue—would not show up when Dan is coaching and teaching me timing. I settle for too little and quit too soon—from LBI study overcoming drilling. Try has learned how to give a little so I will quit and how to offer something to avoid a game she doesn’t like. i.e. back feet on the pedestal to avoid circling!! See Dan notes—this will take time, experimentation, study etc.
• A huge huge issue for me is to be really in the moment reading Try!!!! So I can recognize signs of change. Also when I am distracted Try will get dominant. Repetition game
• Magic days: good weather, Sunday am, plan but not focused on it, enjoying the day—just feeling.
• P9 focus/dominance—encourage her idea “And then some” be aware of when to use it and to do it with a sense of the game/joy Jim Carrey I want to develop the sense of PLAY and timing for this.
• Being able to recognize the change from Try wanting to do something to ok now I’m ready to do what you want to do i.e. passenger game waiting at the gate 2 min
• P11 using patterns BORING even mixing them up. I’d rather be creative and make up my own. If I’m bored does try pick up on that? Sometimes she gets bored all on her own. Try got bored with LBI stuff with Chris and Sherri and I did a little warmup strong and LBE circle and change direction and she was yeehaw LBE! (boredom)
Riding match
• I am not a risk taker. Try is super safe or maybe I have learned not to go there and she doesn’t offer. Try is not too exuberant.
• Improvements/changes
o Warmup strong and Try is happy to move her feet
o She is less dominant in behavior if I am not rude
• We are no longer doing long boring laps i.e. no stirrups but Spiderman is taking up the slack. With Try break it up with transitions, trail, passenger, ride in the field and going places. Do a few and move on. Wheelbarrow, back from HQ yield, flying leaf.
Learning frame of mind
• She does love new and interesting
• She does love to dominate just not as much
• “willing” doesn’t say enough its both of us open to each other, relaxed, soft, mentally attuned. Soul mate kinda stuff. Willing goes beyond compliant it is actively connected.
• Play must it be joyous and active and can Try doit? No see Dan notes play is active for me but not for Try.
Situational
Checked lots to get feedback: RBE 11, RBI 9, LBI 7 and LBE 4.
Priorities
• Losing focus, being in the moment, aware of Try each moment watching for changes with strategy in mind.
• Not waiting: for the change, reaction, over rewarding and over cueing
• Internal dialog vs just being i.e. thinking vs feeling
• Afraid of damaging horse mentally or emotionally! My reason for getting into Parelli
• Putting too much pressure on horse so he/she loses confidence
Dan Comments on Humanality Match
Reports in general
Reports have limits as they are a single dot in a single spot and address a main tendency. Also the data is dependent on my input and thoughts at that moment. So this changes through time and situation etc. But it does give some good ideas to consider.
Positive and negative charts:
The goal is to get Try off the negative chart or as low as possible and onto the positive chart as high as possible. The goal is balanced—positive in all 4 quadrants.
Another consideration is the Parelli level of the horse and the savvy level of the human so that issues become more subtle and reading the horse occurs in more depth etc.
The report does not address the right brain side of Try. Although she has moved to less dominant on this chart, I would like to find another RBE with a RBI horse just to see what is said.
Dan mentioned a student and her TB mare (also a 20 year old LBI who goes RBI). For that mare maintaining a trot or canter is using discomfort—so she learns to be LBI as the lesser discomfort. Needs big enough contrast of discomfort to be effective. LBI breaking gait and subsequent change of direction.
So Try bracey toward RB—more pressure does NOT work when she is RB but in LB it does. Try’s job keep me sleeping not bring my energy up and cause more discomfort. RB slowing down and allowing extra time-- Observing the moment of LBI/RBI changes. If LBI may need to rattle her cage which will send her RBI then wait for her to go back LBI.
For Try when she gets frustrated and witchy—check to see whether I am rudely over cueing OR Dan suggests more likely wimpy which will be interpreted by Try as predatory. People who are nice are careful and there for sneaky which is predatory so nice becomes a direct line to predatory!
Riding cueing with leg—try it first at phase 1 (phase 1 refined to our level) and check her response and then be effective if need be.
When Try is nonresponsive (?) ITS NOT ABOUT the game. She is so clever at getting the game on her terms, taking over the game. i.e. offering pedestal to avoid circling.
LBE play: report assumes active play. I have assumed play is active and full of energy AND for me personally it is. For Try, not so much—less active play i.e. playing tricks on me, curious, mouthy. That can still be enjoyable playfulness for us both. It won’t satisfy my NEED for active play. I need to acknowledge it and accept it. If I do see exuberant play for Try, know it won’t last long—i.e. turnout bucking/gallop. Her age is also a factor.
Quitting too soon:
Dan says this isn’t just RBE but is a common human trait. Takes experience and experimentation on lots of horses. Somethimes it is good to play though and others ok to quit. How to know if going a little longer will gring the greater benefit? Humans hate being wrong—fear mistake. I fear damaging a horse mentally or emotionally. Dan says they are still better off even tho they are our guinea pigs.
Chris attracted Try—Dan says it is her Introverted and nurturing energy. RBIs have a strong nurturing quality that can make them take charge people to protect their “family.”
Living in the Moment/Magic Days
Dan says I am actually quite suited to this because of the RBE feeling and creative side. I am innately programmed to be good at it. Great. (LB think more, RB feel more) Of course, some days I need to think to learn/teach/create a new muscle memory and that is good as well.
Willingness vs compliance
I define willing as something less than open but that may just be semantics. I want positive reflexes so it becomes a dance—feeling and doing and moving together.
Dan stresses making deposits into her motivation account. Purpose games, ride Try to plan with Spiderman, move cows, synchronized riding with some one else, If I have focus it is not drilling. i.e. could use Trys HQ yield to move Spiderman. Try will ask what’s in it for me and if her account is filled she will offer the withdrawal and “read my mind.” Lately, field, trail, passenger, trips are deposits. Doing just a little of focused drilling??? i.e. HQ stuff—do it once—its good and go on to something different.
Humanality
• The RBE/LBE match is interesting but Try is LBI so I have asked for a new report.
• Try and I are fairly compatible as far as energy goes we are both cusp and can go easily one way or the other—the goal for me is to see where SHE is and act in accordance.
• Positive chart: 27 points RBE, RBI, LBI, LBE all about 15 point. Asking friends—law wives put me RBE, BA and Dan put me RBE. Curiously high school BF puts me LBI.
• RBE: I recognize this as appropriate to my life experiences including being cautious of LBEs. I go most RBE with LBEs i.e. Linda, BA but am drawn to them. I also get really RBE when leading a group and feel the need to be sure everyone is happy, excited, motivated etc.
• I want to be aware of the tendency toward too much people and horse pleasing.
• From the humanality I have particularly noted that I am over sensitive, and if hurt will pull away from people causing confusion for them.
Match with Try as LBE
• P4 says we are both active, fast to react and quick to get frustrated. I think I am more active and fast to react and Try is quicker to get frustrated. See later notes Dan phone call on frustration.
• Also that we enjoy each other’s playfulness and we do not—does Try only play dominance—I don’t see much pure joyful physical exuberance. Try’s playfulness is usually introverted play.
• I also don’t see much from Try of too much energy that needs challenging and if its there I am capable of working with it confidently.
• P6 Try when I’ve not been there drawn to me and in mind reading frame of mind. Canter to me when RB/ more drawn when ill etc. Attracted to Chris Shallcross and Annie Shank—introverts. So she often likes slow, introverted, caring energies.
• P8 L3 is different than L1 for us both!! I am much less emotional or frustrated and I do always go to the barn with a plan and the ability to readjust the plan quickly.
• However, Consistency and giving up within a session is an issue—would not show up when Dan is coaching and teaching me timing. I settle for too little and quit too soon—from LBI study overcoming drilling. Try has learned how to give a little so I will quit and how to offer something to avoid a game she doesn’t like. i.e. back feet on the pedestal to avoid circling!! See Dan notes—this will take time, experimentation, study etc.
• A huge huge issue for me is to be really in the moment reading Try!!!! So I can recognize signs of change. Also when I am distracted Try will get dominant. Repetition game
• Magic days: good weather, Sunday am, plan but not focused on it, enjoying the day—just feeling.
• P9 focus/dominance—encourage her idea “And then some” be aware of when to use it and to do it with a sense of the game/joy Jim Carrey I want to develop the sense of PLAY and timing for this.
• Being able to recognize the change from Try wanting to do something to ok now I’m ready to do what you want to do i.e. passenger game waiting at the gate 2 min
• P11 using patterns BORING even mixing them up. I’d rather be creative and make up my own. If I’m bored does try pick up on that? Sometimes she gets bored all on her own. Try got bored with LBI stuff with Chris and Sherri and I did a little warmup strong and LBE circle and change direction and she was yeehaw LBE! (boredom)
Riding match
• I am not a risk taker. Try is super safe or maybe I have learned not to go there and she doesn’t offer. Try is not too exuberant.
• Improvements/changes
o Warmup strong and Try is happy to move her feet
o She is less dominant in behavior if I am not rude
• We are no longer doing long boring laps i.e. no stirrups but Spiderman is taking up the slack. With Try break it up with transitions, trail, passenger, ride in the field and going places. Do a few and move on. Wheelbarrow, back from HQ yield, flying leaf.
Learning frame of mind
• She does love new and interesting
• She does love to dominate just not as much
• “willing” doesn’t say enough its both of us open to each other, relaxed, soft, mentally attuned. Soul mate kinda stuff. Willing goes beyond compliant it is actively connected.
• Play must it be joyous and active and can Try doit? No see Dan notes play is active for me but not for Try.
Situational
Checked lots to get feedback: RBE 11, RBI 9, LBI 7 and LBE 4.
Priorities
• Losing focus, being in the moment, aware of Try each moment watching for changes with strategy in mind.
• Not waiting: for the change, reaction, over rewarding and over cueing
• Internal dialog vs just being i.e. thinking vs feeling
• Afraid of damaging horse mentally or emotionally! My reason for getting into Parelli
• Putting too much pressure on horse so he/she loses confidence
Dan Comments on Humanality Match
Reports in general
Reports have limits as they are a single dot in a single spot and address a main tendency. Also the data is dependent on my input and thoughts at that moment. So this changes through time and situation etc. But it does give some good ideas to consider.
Positive and negative charts:
The goal is to get Try off the negative chart or as low as possible and onto the positive chart as high as possible. The goal is balanced—positive in all 4 quadrants.
Another consideration is the Parelli level of the horse and the savvy level of the human so that issues become more subtle and reading the horse occurs in more depth etc.
The report does not address the right brain side of Try. Although she has moved to less dominant on this chart, I would like to find another RBE with a RBI horse just to see what is said.
Dan mentioned a student and her TB mare (also a 20 year old LBI who goes RBI). For that mare maintaining a trot or canter is using discomfort—so she learns to be LBI as the lesser discomfort. Needs big enough contrast of discomfort to be effective. LBI breaking gait and subsequent change of direction.
So Try bracey toward RB—more pressure does NOT work when she is RB but in LB it does. Try’s job keep me sleeping not bring my energy up and cause more discomfort. RB slowing down and allowing extra time-- Observing the moment of LBI/RBI changes. If LBI may need to rattle her cage which will send her RBI then wait for her to go back LBI.
For Try when she gets frustrated and witchy—check to see whether I am rudely over cueing OR Dan suggests more likely wimpy which will be interpreted by Try as predatory. People who are nice are careful and there for sneaky which is predatory so nice becomes a direct line to predatory!
Riding cueing with leg—try it first at phase 1 (phase 1 refined to our level) and check her response and then be effective if need be.
When Try is nonresponsive (?) ITS NOT ABOUT the game. She is so clever at getting the game on her terms, taking over the game. i.e. offering pedestal to avoid circling.
LBE play: report assumes active play. I have assumed play is active and full of energy AND for me personally it is. For Try, not so much—less active play i.e. playing tricks on me, curious, mouthy. That can still be enjoyable playfulness for us both. It won’t satisfy my NEED for active play. I need to acknowledge it and accept it. If I do see exuberant play for Try, know it won’t last long—i.e. turnout bucking/gallop. Her age is also a factor.
Quitting too soon:
Dan says this isn’t just RBE but is a common human trait. Takes experience and experimentation on lots of horses. Somethimes it is good to play though and others ok to quit. How to know if going a little longer will gring the greater benefit? Humans hate being wrong—fear mistake. I fear damaging a horse mentally or emotionally. Dan says they are still better off even tho they are our guinea pigs.
Chris attracted Try—Dan says it is her Introverted and nurturing energy. RBIs have a strong nurturing quality that can make them take charge people to protect their “family.”
Living in the Moment/Magic Days
Dan says I am actually quite suited to this because of the RBE feeling and creative side. I am innately programmed to be good at it. Great. (LB think more, RB feel more) Of course, some days I need to think to learn/teach/create a new muscle memory and that is good as well.
Willingness vs compliance
I define willing as something less than open but that may just be semantics. I want positive reflexes so it becomes a dance—feeling and doing and moving together.
Dan stresses making deposits into her motivation account. Purpose games, ride Try to plan with Spiderman, move cows, synchronized riding with some one else, If I have focus it is not drilling. i.e. could use Trys HQ yield to move Spiderman. Try will ask what’s in it for me and if her account is filled she will offer the withdrawal and “read my mind.” Lately, field, trail, passenger, trips are deposits. Doing just a little of focused drilling??? i.e. HQ stuff—do it once—its good and go on to something different.
Friday, March 18, 2011
March 17 Dan Thompson, Try and Spiderman
3/17/11 Dan Thompson
Try
1. Sticking together game
a. Drive HQ until she comes all the way through
b. Don’t stop—keep moving
c. If need be drive front end to prevent stopping
2. Yo
a. Neutral and life down are not the same
b. Cueing her to maintain gait—maintain life up/neutral to keep going and life down to stop
3. Circle game with HQ yield
a. Not disengaging—I go with her and mirror to get her to step across
b. IMPortant is to keep going—not a disengagement—stay engaged
Riding
1. Wheelbarrow turn: purpose is engagement
a. Turn from HQ not front end
b. No reins except for safety
c. Use leg and if necessary stick with it
d. Program for awhile especially right side
e. Progress this by being able to go from 2-3 steps to maintaining it on the circle
f. Progress also use it to stop this is exaggeration
g. Leading up to powering up good banana
h. Reaching down with foot to stretch thru topline rather than fluid rein
i. Fluid rein chin/nose uncomfortable forehead simulation
j. Stretching neck doesn’t necessarily equate to stretching top line.
2. Backup
a. No reins except to counter sidepass or forward motion
b. Hunker down
c. Move 1HQ step then otherside –use leg behind the girth
d. Keep at it until Try backs then stop
e. Step not just rock
Spiderman
OnLine/Liberty
1. Catching game—liberty stick to me
2. Friendly game: expand be creative, all 5 zones, ball etc Improved since last time.
3. Driving FQ 360: wow I was surprised at this—whole new level of understanding of the game
a. If he escapes back just keep going—want him to plant/turn on back leg (turn on haunches)
b. Escape forward –do back and over
c. Impulsion and respect issues here
d. Be sure to CHECK him into the game—up the E/til he pays attention/not just sorta going thru the motions
4. Yo: same as Try start adding in the idea that it is his responsibility to maintain gait
5. Circling: check out does phase 1 work for send and transitions
a. Needs to stay at a gait until he relaxes, give it time
b. Winning is rhythm, relaxation and contact
6. Sideways: z5 following and occasional move z4 while keeping z1 going
a. Keep going until relaxed and get few good steps w/o his head coming back toward me
7. Riding
a. Comb to bend
b. Comb to bend and hold (vary the time to progress)
c. Comb to bend, hold and disengage HQ
d. Walk and do above, trot, canter
Try
1. Sticking together game
a. Drive HQ until she comes all the way through
b. Don’t stop—keep moving
c. If need be drive front end to prevent stopping
2. Yo
a. Neutral and life down are not the same
b. Cueing her to maintain gait—maintain life up/neutral to keep going and life down to stop
3. Circle game with HQ yield
a. Not disengaging—I go with her and mirror to get her to step across
b. IMPortant is to keep going—not a disengagement—stay engaged
Riding
1. Wheelbarrow turn: purpose is engagement
a. Turn from HQ not front end
b. No reins except for safety
c. Use leg and if necessary stick with it
d. Program for awhile especially right side
e. Progress this by being able to go from 2-3 steps to maintaining it on the circle
f. Progress also use it to stop this is exaggeration
g. Leading up to powering up good banana
h. Reaching down with foot to stretch thru topline rather than fluid rein
i. Fluid rein chin/nose uncomfortable forehead simulation
j. Stretching neck doesn’t necessarily equate to stretching top line.
2. Backup
a. No reins except to counter sidepass or forward motion
b. Hunker down
c. Move 1HQ step then otherside –use leg behind the girth
d. Keep at it until Try backs then stop
e. Step not just rock
Spiderman
OnLine/Liberty
1. Catching game—liberty stick to me
2. Friendly game: expand be creative, all 5 zones, ball etc Improved since last time.
3. Driving FQ 360: wow I was surprised at this—whole new level of understanding of the game
a. If he escapes back just keep going—want him to plant/turn on back leg (turn on haunches)
b. Escape forward –do back and over
c. Impulsion and respect issues here
d. Be sure to CHECK him into the game—up the E/til he pays attention/not just sorta going thru the motions
4. Yo: same as Try start adding in the idea that it is his responsibility to maintain gait
5. Circling: check out does phase 1 work for send and transitions
a. Needs to stay at a gait until he relaxes, give it time
b. Winning is rhythm, relaxation and contact
6. Sideways: z5 following and occasional move z4 while keeping z1 going
a. Keep going until relaxed and get few good steps w/o his head coming back toward me
7. Riding
a. Comb to bend
b. Comb to bend and hold (vary the time to progress)
c. Comb to bend, hold and disengage HQ
d. Walk and do above, trot, canter
Friday, February 18, 2011
February 17, 2011: Dan Thompson
February 17, 2011: Dan Thompson 3 hours
1. All about phases: this is complicated and depends on many things.
2. Spiderman: a. Is the way you start different when you are no longer level 1 yourself? Started with extreme friendly and put back to fence and really slapped the group but stayed relaxed and neutral in my body (friendly) and stopped when he stopped. Sang to keep myself relaxed. Needed to focus on Spiderman not Dan to look for when to stop. Spiderman got it pretty quickly.
b. Did tombe pas de bourre glissade hug Spiderman with really relaxed body and he stood there but if I had tension in my body he really felt it.
c. Yoyo backing and understanding phases With Spiderman he had moved from learning to controlling phase and I did not realize it. I was going slow, not expecting much. Quickly thru phases 2 and 3 to phase 4 and then give him time to process. Blind man. Do close and then farther away. Teach him to find my focus.
d. Circling was great we already have a nice send and bring back. The allow: go thru phases if he breaks to a walk—phase 3 sideways swing of rope, phase 4 get off the pedestal and tag him. This is a fun Jim Carrey game.
e. No knowledge of sideways—we discussed but did not do. The plan will be to accept ugly—not careful and pretty let him move and figure it out—life up, life down when there is a good step or two and stop time to process it.
3. Try On Line
a. I explained my filming to see my use of focus and intention and saw no impulsion, then tried to find an effective phase 4 and that did not work. So I asked will Try ever have more impulsion?
b. So remedy is not phase 4 but the warmup. Warmup strong. Did extreme friendly for the purpose of bringing up her life and energy rather than go slow with her as a warmup. Remember if its friendly I am relaxed in my body.
c. Then we used the circling game to teach Try to handle her emotion (relax) when her life comes up as that worries her. So send and falling leaf and then follow her (matching her energy) as she chooses relaxation as the good deal.
4. Try: riding
a. Speed: Will she ever have more energy or is it boredom. Again this is an opportunity to warmup strong, swing carrot stick along her body to bring up life. We worked on her emotional fitness in the backup. Note I felt safe with the increased energy in the backup
b. Wendy’s/Cottonwood)—yes I could have used the circling game to better advantage, matching her energy and giving her the chance to learn to deal with her emotion.
c. Carrot stick riding is a big priority as I can see that I have caused problems with over using reins i.e. swing the shoulders, backup, sideways, turns on the forehand and the haunches, falling leaf etc.
d. The reason for the backup was a broken yoyo game. Homework for March is a snappy backup. Try not to use rein. My seat!! And Carrot stick over my head.
e. Canter yoyos great for HQ engagement, uses speedy backup—does it improve the gait?
f. Also did sideways using the free leg for extra control.
5. Parelli in eastern NC and Craven County: Dan suggested a trail riding clinic!
1. All about phases: this is complicated and depends on many things.
2. Spiderman: a. Is the way you start different when you are no longer level 1 yourself? Started with extreme friendly and put back to fence and really slapped the group but stayed relaxed and neutral in my body (friendly) and stopped when he stopped. Sang to keep myself relaxed. Needed to focus on Spiderman not Dan to look for when to stop. Spiderman got it pretty quickly.
b. Did tombe pas de bourre glissade hug Spiderman with really relaxed body and he stood there but if I had tension in my body he really felt it.
c. Yoyo backing and understanding phases With Spiderman he had moved from learning to controlling phase and I did not realize it. I was going slow, not expecting much. Quickly thru phases 2 and 3 to phase 4 and then give him time to process. Blind man. Do close and then farther away. Teach him to find my focus.
d. Circling was great we already have a nice send and bring back. The allow: go thru phases if he breaks to a walk—phase 3 sideways swing of rope, phase 4 get off the pedestal and tag him. This is a fun Jim Carrey game.
e. No knowledge of sideways—we discussed but did not do. The plan will be to accept ugly—not careful and pretty let him move and figure it out—life up, life down when there is a good step or two and stop time to process it.
3. Try On Line
a. I explained my filming to see my use of focus and intention and saw no impulsion, then tried to find an effective phase 4 and that did not work. So I asked will Try ever have more impulsion?
b. So remedy is not phase 4 but the warmup. Warmup strong. Did extreme friendly for the purpose of bringing up her life and energy rather than go slow with her as a warmup. Remember if its friendly I am relaxed in my body.
c. Then we used the circling game to teach Try to handle her emotion (relax) when her life comes up as that worries her. So send and falling leaf and then follow her (matching her energy) as she chooses relaxation as the good deal.
4. Try: riding
a. Speed: Will she ever have more energy or is it boredom. Again this is an opportunity to warmup strong, swing carrot stick along her body to bring up life. We worked on her emotional fitness in the backup. Note I felt safe with the increased energy in the backup
b. Wendy’s/Cottonwood)—yes I could have used the circling game to better advantage, matching her energy and giving her the chance to learn to deal with her emotion.
c. Carrot stick riding is a big priority as I can see that I have caused problems with over using reins i.e. swing the shoulders, backup, sideways, turns on the forehand and the haunches, falling leaf etc.
d. The reason for the backup was a broken yoyo game. Homework for March is a snappy backup. Try not to use rein. My seat!! And Carrot stick over my head.
e. Canter yoyos great for HQ engagement, uses speedy backup—does it improve the gait?
f. Also did sideways using the free leg for extra control.
5. Parelli in eastern NC and Craven County: Dan suggested a trail riding clinic!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Dan Thompson January 9, 2011
The weather was in the teens so I opted to do the 3 hours inside. Discussion of the big picture, planning, Riley, and some specifics and simulations.
Syncing not just movement but our energy in the sticking together game—i.e. I choose energy level and see if Try will match it and vice versa.
I had some questions about where I am going as L3 grad considering L4 and also mentioned the boredom issue for LBI Try and LBE me. Dan comments that levels are never ending but a way of recognizing accomplishment along the way to provide motivation. Basically he said level 3 is about putting what I know to purpose and that will prevent boredom.
Purpose/conditioning for Try
1. Purpose: playing together—Try doesn’t feel I am playing at her
2. Playing with psychology
3. Dressage maybe
4. Cows
5. Drill team maybe
6. Handling another horse while riding Try
7. Choreography
8. Riding with another horse and rider
9. Obstacles on the trail at a trot and canter
10. ??Make riding in the field interesting
11. Vary the HQ stuff from day to day!!
12. 2 people and horses passenger and stick together
13. Lots of transitions speed/gait through the woods
14. Cavalettis, hill therapy, putting patterns to a purpose
15. Finding better posture and “holding” it—holdover in healthy posture beyond the session.
16. Million transitions: Walter Zettl
17. Trail—canter ½ mile but add in ½ pass or ??whatever to add mental challenge
18. Pulling something heavy enough to be physical for Try i.e. cavaletti pole
Whatever it is—it won’t be fun if it gets drilled!!!
We talked about the subject of physical development for Try. I don’t feel the need for her to be conditioned as a top athlete but rather good physicality and biometrics to assist her as she ages. This includes increasing use of hind quarters and engaging top line and abdominals. This seems the least I can do for the health of my lovely horse. BUT Dan hit the nail on the head with how do I achieve fitness without the drilling that brings forth a bad attitude—classic LBI issue. I realized that I have been dealing with this issue for ages. All those laps in the ring at trot and canter are healthy physically but not mentally and emotionally. I have tried varying by doing the “work” in patterns, passenger lessons etc. Dan’s suggestions were out of the ring.
Another issue—I would like to be a really good rider:
1. Dan says this is another never ending quest
2. Obviously time in the saddle, study ie Walter Zettl
3. Versatility—cross disciplines, like cross training ??dressage
4. Ride other horses that are good at their disciplines to see how it should feel
5. Kelly eventing, Dan—future help to add in to what I am doing
6. Go ride one of Wendy’s cow horses.
7. Ride physically different horses, ride any other horses available??
8. Is the dressage saddle preventing my sitting the canter?
9. Pilates warmup—21 days makes a habit
10. Can’t ask horse to engage if we are tight/tense or a slob.
Parelli and Tasking: Pat organizes thoughts around tasks, Linda feels it is more valuable to figure it out yourself—at the center instructors wait for questions from the students. Important to ASK. Balance of gaining information from other sources, and puzzling it out on my own.
EARN the right to be a good leader by being a good follower: Ultimate passenger game there is no agenda even if that means sitting at the gate for as long as it takes. Dan clinic ½ hr one day, 5 minutes the next. And huge difference in the horse. This would be good to do in the field every day for a week—Dan did this and felt for the first time his horses’ thoughts and subtleties. Can I with a trot or canter passenger, close my eyes and be with her on downward transitions and turns. Kinesthetic takes away the visual if close eyes can feel what the horse is doing. If there is NO agenda (not saying I hope Try doesn’t go to the gate) then I am open to sensing more.
Email Ruby etc re session with Dan on play day fun.
Hunt for my focus game: fun, Try is finding the good deal. Put it to purpose.
Simulations: Cueing each other with focus/body language/intention alone!!!
Want to get so confidence and respect are not issues/opposition reflex—want to be entirely out of the negative.
Riley
1. Most important is to find the starting place of what Riley will accept or tolerate not necessarily love
2. Building confidence
3. Head down for haltering—rest arm on his poll/neck and allow my natural weight to slowly take head down—very friendly game
4. Want him to understand that this is not a bad deal
5. Driving FQ: 3 stooges, close annoying, quit in 1.5 minutes or so
6. Vet check: start close and very gradually build from walk to trot: brace just wait and let him find the good deal.
Syncing not just movement but our energy in the sticking together game—i.e. I choose energy level and see if Try will match it and vice versa.
I had some questions about where I am going as L3 grad considering L4 and also mentioned the boredom issue for LBI Try and LBE me. Dan comments that levels are never ending but a way of recognizing accomplishment along the way to provide motivation. Basically he said level 3 is about putting what I know to purpose and that will prevent boredom.
Purpose/conditioning for Try
1. Purpose: playing together—Try doesn’t feel I am playing at her
2. Playing with psychology
3. Dressage maybe
4. Cows
5. Drill team maybe
6. Handling another horse while riding Try
7. Choreography
8. Riding with another horse and rider
9. Obstacles on the trail at a trot and canter
10. ??Make riding in the field interesting
11. Vary the HQ stuff from day to day!!
12. 2 people and horses passenger and stick together
13. Lots of transitions speed/gait through the woods
14. Cavalettis, hill therapy, putting patterns to a purpose
15. Finding better posture and “holding” it—holdover in healthy posture beyond the session.
16. Million transitions: Walter Zettl
17. Trail—canter ½ mile but add in ½ pass or ??whatever to add mental challenge
18. Pulling something heavy enough to be physical for Try i.e. cavaletti pole
Whatever it is—it won’t be fun if it gets drilled!!!
We talked about the subject of physical development for Try. I don’t feel the need for her to be conditioned as a top athlete but rather good physicality and biometrics to assist her as she ages. This includes increasing use of hind quarters and engaging top line and abdominals. This seems the least I can do for the health of my lovely horse. BUT Dan hit the nail on the head with how do I achieve fitness without the drilling that brings forth a bad attitude—classic LBI issue. I realized that I have been dealing with this issue for ages. All those laps in the ring at trot and canter are healthy physically but not mentally and emotionally. I have tried varying by doing the “work” in patterns, passenger lessons etc. Dan’s suggestions were out of the ring.
Another issue—I would like to be a really good rider:
1. Dan says this is another never ending quest
2. Obviously time in the saddle, study ie Walter Zettl
3. Versatility—cross disciplines, like cross training ??dressage
4. Ride other horses that are good at their disciplines to see how it should feel
5. Kelly eventing, Dan—future help to add in to what I am doing
6. Go ride one of Wendy’s cow horses.
7. Ride physically different horses, ride any other horses available??
8. Is the dressage saddle preventing my sitting the canter?
9. Pilates warmup—21 days makes a habit
10. Can’t ask horse to engage if we are tight/tense or a slob.
Parelli and Tasking: Pat organizes thoughts around tasks, Linda feels it is more valuable to figure it out yourself—at the center instructors wait for questions from the students. Important to ASK. Balance of gaining information from other sources, and puzzling it out on my own.
EARN the right to be a good leader by being a good follower: Ultimate passenger game there is no agenda even if that means sitting at the gate for as long as it takes. Dan clinic ½ hr one day, 5 minutes the next. And huge difference in the horse. This would be good to do in the field every day for a week—Dan did this and felt for the first time his horses’ thoughts and subtleties. Can I with a trot or canter passenger, close my eyes and be with her on downward transitions and turns. Kinesthetic takes away the visual if close eyes can feel what the horse is doing. If there is NO agenda (not saying I hope Try doesn’t go to the gate) then I am open to sensing more.
Email Ruby etc re session with Dan on play day fun.
Hunt for my focus game: fun, Try is finding the good deal. Put it to purpose.
Simulations: Cueing each other with focus/body language/intention alone!!!
Want to get so confidence and respect are not issues/opposition reflex—want to be entirely out of the negative.
Riley
1. Most important is to find the starting place of what Riley will accept or tolerate not necessarily love
2. Building confidence
3. Head down for haltering—rest arm on his poll/neck and allow my natural weight to slowly take head down—very friendly game
4. Want him to understand that this is not a bad deal
5. Driving FQ: 3 stooges, close annoying, quit in 1.5 minutes or so
6. Vet check: start close and very gradually build from walk to trot: brace just wait and let him find the good deal.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Dan Thompson December 23, 2010
Dan Thompson Day 1 December
Fun day today.
After catching up on goings on since the last visit ie BA going amature and Ocala trip, On Line in the new paddock. As a warmup--something slow and fun for Try i.e.knocking cone off a barrel--it is in Try's horsenality to like to push things around LOL. then Dan suggested sidepassing to the barrel and knocking it over or backing to a barrel and rolling it.
Then the main course: teaching Try to hunt my focus--to line up with my focus--focus not on her but on what I want to accomplish i.e. focus on tree to ask her to line up to back (preparation to preparation??) Trick is to use the right amount of energy/phase etc to ask without losing my focus then reward. Try was starting to get it--will take some time. Nice part is that I can start with L1 assessment sheet and we can work our way forward with variety built in and a clear path for me mentally.
Sideways: follow the focus--focusing over the withers--this one was easier both directions than backing.
Circling--more like following my intention: don't change gait or direction AND I choose the distance. Try had no trouble with increasing the distance as I let out rope and to decrease--I walk with her focusing in the direction as I reel in the rope. Note: we tried 6' distance--Dan says this is L4 and the hardest.
Then went to Kathy's and watched Dan help her with strategies for winning 7 games with an RBE and a great trailer loading session. Mostly I was impressed with life up and life down.
Watched part of Mary's lesson with Jake then Aimee with Sparkles--I appreciate the opportunity to watch.
Then 3:30-5 ish Try--mostly freestyle then a spot of figuring out when Try takes contact.
Warmup: We walked for Try to blow and it took longer than usual--
no doubt Try feeling/mirroring my not being as relaxed as usual--though it was a fun, joyous 2 days--still not as relaxed as when its just Try and I. Reminds me of dance rehearsal vs performance--the latter never being as free and glorious as the former as there is the knowledge of the audience.
Anyway, we broke up the walk with turns by my turning my whole body to look at Try's HQ. Then went to the trot and broke that up mentally for Try (to get her connection with me) by varying the speed of the trot from jog to medium to fast trot. (hmm ask BA about extended trot rather than fast).
Then falling leaf variation to lighten the shoulders etc:
1. walk then ask for HQ disengagement with my full body, lift rein hand elbow straight if necessary to keep Try's front end in place (turn on the forehand) and stick in opposite hand across our bodies to HQ as well.
2. After turning swing shoulders in same direction while wt is still back by using opposite rein/leading rein/?leg and if need be stick--holding downward to urge front end.
3. walk off in new direction with leading rein.
Practice bits til they become natural and join together into a dance.
Weave variations walk and trot swinging shoulders thru--so sidepass thru then proceed on a straight line.
Contact: Played with it at a stand still. We wait until Try takes the contact from me i.e. stretched down and then we walk off. Reins mean go.
Merlin/bullfighting
Linda Success Series lead change ladder.
Wonderful two days--glad I did not reschedule to January even though it was really cold both days. By watching other sessions it felt more like a clinic than private sessions only. Also interesting to consider would be the 6 day clinic in Hartsville SC.
Fun day today.
After catching up on goings on since the last visit ie BA going amature and Ocala trip, On Line in the new paddock. As a warmup--something slow and fun for Try i.e.knocking cone off a barrel--it is in Try's horsenality to like to push things around LOL. then Dan suggested sidepassing to the barrel and knocking it over or backing to a barrel and rolling it.
Then the main course: teaching Try to hunt my focus--to line up with my focus--focus not on her but on what I want to accomplish i.e. focus on tree to ask her to line up to back (preparation to preparation??) Trick is to use the right amount of energy/phase etc to ask without losing my focus then reward. Try was starting to get it--will take some time. Nice part is that I can start with L1 assessment sheet and we can work our way forward with variety built in and a clear path for me mentally.
Sideways: follow the focus--focusing over the withers--this one was easier both directions than backing.
Circling--more like following my intention: don't change gait or direction AND I choose the distance. Try had no trouble with increasing the distance as I let out rope and to decrease--I walk with her focusing in the direction as I reel in the rope. Note: we tried 6' distance--Dan says this is L4 and the hardest.
Then went to Kathy's and watched Dan help her with strategies for winning 7 games with an RBE and a great trailer loading session. Mostly I was impressed with life up and life down.
Watched part of Mary's lesson with Jake then Aimee with Sparkles--I appreciate the opportunity to watch.
Then 3:30-5 ish Try--mostly freestyle then a spot of figuring out when Try takes contact.
Warmup: We walked for Try to blow and it took longer than usual--
no doubt Try feeling/mirroring my not being as relaxed as usual--though it was a fun, joyous 2 days--still not as relaxed as when its just Try and I. Reminds me of dance rehearsal vs performance--the latter never being as free and glorious as the former as there is the knowledge of the audience.
Anyway, we broke up the walk with turns by my turning my whole body to look at Try's HQ. Then went to the trot and broke that up mentally for Try (to get her connection with me) by varying the speed of the trot from jog to medium to fast trot. (hmm ask BA about extended trot rather than fast).
Then falling leaf variation to lighten the shoulders etc:
1. walk then ask for HQ disengagement with my full body, lift rein hand elbow straight if necessary to keep Try's front end in place (turn on the forehand) and stick in opposite hand across our bodies to HQ as well.
2. After turning swing shoulders in same direction while wt is still back by using opposite rein/leading rein/?leg and if need be stick--holding downward to urge front end.
3. walk off in new direction with leading rein.
Practice bits til they become natural and join together into a dance.
Weave variations walk and trot swinging shoulders thru--so sidepass thru then proceed on a straight line.
Contact: Played with it at a stand still. We wait until Try takes the contact from me i.e. stretched down and then we walk off. Reins mean go.
Merlin/bullfighting
Linda Success Series lead change ladder.
Wonderful two days--glad I did not reschedule to January even though it was really cold both days. By watching other sessions it felt more like a clinic than private sessions only. Also interesting to consider would be the 6 day clinic in Hartsville SC.
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