Alison Jones Clinic - 2nd June 2007

The gorgeous sunny weather made for another valuable, fun packed lesson with Alison.  After a deluge of rain complete with thunder and lightening the week before the outlook for our clinic with Alison was looking rather bleak, it turned out not to be the case and it couldn’t have been more perfect!!

We started out by playing online, improving our canter draws from 45ft.  Alison gave us some great tips on how to set this up for success and encourage the draw at a faster speed, all horses made a great effort which was rewarded with long dwell periods, perfect insentive for our Left Brained equines.

Liberty was next on the order of the day.  All 3 horses playing at liberty with their human out in the field.  Bertie and Rosie had “happy feet” and really felt the need to move them, they were quite extrovert!! Pepper joined in the fun with Bertie, but was a little “lost”, he thought he should tag along, but was really keen to get back to Kaye for comfort!

Alison challenged us to a “Par de tois” bareback, this was great fun and we enjoyed pushing our imagination to task, all very exhilarating! (The photo’s say it all!)

Following lunch we moved onto a ridden session.  After checking our horses out, we played with Flying Lead Changes and the Gallop, this was really good fun and everyone had some success, there is no stopping you now Niki!!

Snakey bends with Finesse followed, which helps improve longitudinal and latitudinal flexibility.  It was lovely to see and feel the softness and lightness between horse and rider.  Last up was bridless riding which was so much fun, Niki and Rosie have some really great things happening as did Kaye and Pepper.  Bertie and i played with downward transitions and backing up, which for a horse that has more go than whoa is interesting to say the least.

We finished up by discussing the day and planning our next clinic with Alison.  A big thank you to Alison for all her help, advice and tips, we now have some great strategies to consolidate level 3 principles.  Niki and Kaye it was pleasure as always, see you very soon..

Stacey

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