The Aspirant Technique by Carolyn Rose
Deanna Thompson flew in from North Carolina to ride Friday and Saturday. We had two days of intense training. She felt that she had lost her seat and was having difficulty riding sitting trot when extending across the diagonal. It only took us one lesson to fix her seat! I took away her stirrups and aligned her body. I had her practice extending on the diagonals and to keep her seat ahead of the horse; so as not to be left behind as the horse pushed off in the more forward stride. By the end of the lesson she looked like a pro. I told her, it doesn’t get better than that, as she was able to stay with the horse stride after stride. With that behind us, I spent time teaching her to be more sophisticated at engaging the horse from the hind legs and lifting the frame. She was able to get better timing with her seat. We were able to get her hands in a better place for upper level work.
She worked with three different horses, Mirage, Galileo, and Victress. Victress was her favorite. Victress has the largest stride and can rise into the air as she travels across the diagonal. Deanna was happy to be back on her as she had shown her two years ago at third level and got a qualifying score with her. I was so pleased as I was able to teach her things I hadn’t been able to teach her in the past. She was really ready to go forward in her training and she did.
Her plane left today and she will be back training horses in the Carolina’s and I’m anticipating great success on her part. She will be keeping in touch and coming back for more training in the summer with the hopes of training on Victress and showing her.
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