Christmas Eve, 2006
Today we tasted our first bit of bridleless riding!!!!!!! YAY! It was absolutely amazing - No wonder Pat does so much of it!
We didn't actually go "naked" - Cloud had a bridle on - but we only had it as a "safety net" and didn't use it at all. I used my two carrot sticks and -man- it was great. I really GOT the idea of looking with your bellybutton, and I was surprised at how light Cloud was! The coolest part of it all was figuring out how to stop -- at first, I released my energy but nothing happened and I immediately went for the reins. But after a little while, I realized I could do lateral flexion even WITHOUT touching the reins and that worked beautifully!!! In one session, we "got" forwards, backwards, stop, turn and spin - really good for our first try ever! I'm so happy I'm floating!!!! We've come so FAR in these couple years!
(If you'll please excuse me, I just really have to do this...)
YIPPPEEEEEEEE!!!!
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