Saumur's hip injury is healed and we are back to full training with Sandy! We had the most amazing collected trot and canter in the deep snow in the outdoor arena last week. It was so awesome, I forgot to gripe for once about Michigan winters!
My current challenge is to be as relaxed in my back and muscles in the canter as I am in the trot. For some reason, in the canter my back tightens in the effort for more collection. I have the image from a Catherine Haddad article: RIDE WITH YOUR BONES, not your muscles. Meaning that the balance comes from the skeleton, and not from heavy muscle use.
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