We had a good lesson on Wednesday. We worked on lead changes and on stopping again. The drill for lead changes was different from the last one we worked. We started to lope circle and just do a few steps of counter bending while loping. Lope circle, pick up the shoulder and counter bend, then let them back out to go back to the circle. After you can push them around without any issues, come through the middle at more of a diagonal, take your inside leg off, put your outside leg on, exaggerate and lean to the inside, and hope they change. It sounds confusing and at first it is. This is a drill TL uses to see if a young horse will "just change" or to see if they are more of a natural changer. If they do change she just lets the fence stop them slowly and lets them stand and think. If not she just brings them back around and tries again. Semper has pretty solid lead changes so we didn't drill to hard, the other horses that were there did well with the drill.
I wanted to go back to the beginning and start over with the stopping. TL says that isn't going to work because stopping at a lope is different than stopping on a run down. On the run down you start slow, build speed, get in stopping position and ask. I think that I was getting into stopping position to early and telling on myself. So I started out slow, got into position, and then asked for some speed - just a little - and then asked for a stop. I sat still as he stopped. It was better. I may get it yet!
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