Struggle bus

 Argh.. not how I wanted to spend our last ride of the year. I was cranky and had another headache... maybe the flu still?? Should have just lunged... 

did lunge to start. and took a minute but got nice and lofty and bouncy with her nose down to the ground. 

got on... did some walk. haunches in a bit easier. tried some shoulder fore too. then did trot and canter work and it wasn't bad but... just struggling to get her to bend around my left leg. she wants to be so counter bent in her body. I don't know if it's me? her? both? got some good canter departs though. tried half passing in the walk to see if I could get her to move her haunches/hindend left while bent left. NOPE. not able to do it. 

got off after a decent trot traccking left... not quite in the outside rein only but at least some decent contact on btoh reins 

Then tried to do half pass in hand. Hard to coordinate the aids. She got frantic and just exploded instead of actually trying to think. So... we took a breather... i tried to break it down into tiny little pieces and be very very very soft and we managed to get a few steps in the correct direction. so.. yeah.. just not sure where the blockage is. 

good girl though. gave some cookies. she was sweaty! :( 





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