Some Days I Really Love To Teach Riding

Well, this is my second installment to this blog. So here goes.

Yesterday, I had a six year old student who has been riding for about 1 1/2 years decide that she wanted to try to ride like the riders she had seen last weekend at the Lippizaner (sp?) show. So, I dropped her stirrups down to about dressage length and let her try it. Well, she had also noticed that all the riders last week did a sitting trot, so I had her try that, too. And, I'll be darned if she didn't do a wonderful sitting trot! By the end of the lesson she had adjusted wonderfully to the longer length stirrups and could post, too! I let her try a turn on the forehand with help and a leg yield with a lot of help and she loved it. Maybe, we have our next Olympic gold medalist in works here. You just never know.