Ride on Magic 6/17/2010

Its 3:10 in the morning on 8/18/2010 and I can't sleep, so im blogging.

Well, I rode magic for a good while and we got a good work out. We worked on a lot of cantering, getting her collected and my equitation. Magic was phenomenal but I feel like our canter is a little bit on the ugly side and we have to work on that. I need to drive more with my hips and less with my shoulders. I feel like my last couple rides I've made an improvement with my posture, not looking down, and not leaning forward. I need more muscle in my thigh so I think I'm even gonna order a thigh master, so I can work on them when I'm not riding. I really need to work on my leg position too. I push down on the ball of my toe and my heels go more up than they do down. My toes go out too and my legs need to be more under me. But over all these past few days, Magic and I have made a pretty good improvement.

But yes, we trotted alot too (duh) and she was extending alot more than she has been these past few days, she also didn't have that stupid attitude shes had. We worked on crazy 8's and cantering from the trot, which Magic is recently being taught to do since she did saddleseat and they don't do that. She picked up the wrong lead twice which is weird because I don't remember looking down. I just hope we can make a lot more progress in these next four days before the show on the 22nd. I'm sort of nervous but I know this is what we've been practicing more.

Bed time for me now...nightttttt

Ms. Magic

Magic is my nsh mare. She is bay black and is 23 years old. She is not on any supplements and has no arthritis or any other medical condition. She has a great personality and but can sometimes be mareish and a totaly brat. She has the exact same personality as me. Its sort of weird. Her biggest problem is that she is heavy headed and likes to stick her head on the rail. But what do you expect? She was trained that way...

She did saddleseat pretty much her entire life up until now because I am retraining her for huntseat. We are not quite there yet and I have things to work on myself but we are coming along. We have our first show on the 22nd:)