Showing posts with label lesson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lesson. Show all posts
April 25, 2013
The Becky Diaries: An Afterward
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All eyes are turned to my favourite patch of turf right now, a park filled with history in Lexington, KY and an event that continues to cha...
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thoughtful insights
March 25, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 10: Stadium Jumping
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It was time to put it all together. Adjustability, focus, position, balance, and accuracy. All without running over Scrappy. Yeah, I thin...
March 20, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 9: Adjustability
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It is the end times. *insert ominous music here* Tomorrow will be just washing linens and throwing things back in the truck and hauling ou...
March 18, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 7: Dressage
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Monday is break day. Well timed, as a windy, cloudy sky settles over us and makes for a good day to sit by the fire. But Sunday was time ...
March 17, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 6: Cross Country
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What could possibly be wrong with that? A warm beautiful Saturday meant it was time to revisit our XC skills and work on some drops. A...
March 16, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 5: Long Lining
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With each day of surreally amazing experience & knowledge streaming in front of me, my brain gets progressively more loopy ( a terrifyin...
March 15, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 4: Cross Country
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You FB peeps already guessed who this snoozer is! It was Pi Day! But I forgot to get pie to celebrate, sigh. The days seem too short,...
March 14, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 3: Gymnastics
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The porch view of the Windhaven dressage and gynmastic work area. I did not get to do much creeping watching today; since I had to fetc...
March 13, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 2: Dressage-ish
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What have you done in the last 10 years? Mind blown. Also, you might as well start calling me Wrong Turn Reba; all these tiny SC roads...
February 23, 2013
Balancing The Classical With The Practical
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Such are the words from Camp David. Encore and I were able to sneak in two excellent lessons before the snowstorm hit, although I did most...
December 27, 2012
In Which I Once Again Prove That I Am Daft
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I've been working with Amber and Solo, teaching her how to dig out his trot from beneath the turtle shuffle veneer. In the process, I h...
November 21, 2012
The Wheat From The Chaff: Separate It Does
This story is a little overdue, but no less worth telling. Because it is a perfect illustration of the line of horsemanship those of us one...
September 6, 2012
Red Alert: An Opportunity For You!
For those of you who are not Facebook subscribers to TFS (for shame!), I wanted to let you east coasters know that September 15th, you can c...
August 22, 2012
Don't Yell At Problems -- Solve Them
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That was definitely the theme for our lesson on Saturday, so I will let you take my lesson as well! Encore did very well and feels in fine ...
August 18, 2012
Make Your Horse Kinetic
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Encore had an excellent lesson with our beloved David O. this morning and I am busy downloading and uploading and sideloading our videos!...
June 22, 2012
Away Again IS Away Again!
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That's right, baby Flying Solo is back in business and got the seal of approval from David last Saturday at our lesson. I had hauled En...
May 13, 2012
Full Stop
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It was madness on Friday. Dashing 100 miles from our last field site of the day home, changing bags, changing trucks, only to dash again to...