This week is going SOOOOO fast! Last week was very slow, but i don't know where the days have gone this week. Crazy!
Anyway, yesterday was a good and exciting day. We had remuda's, and had trailer loading demo's. After that we went to the small coverall to get lessons on the circling game. Kristi demonstrated with her horsey Olay. Then John did problem solving with 3 different horses, so that we could get some more arrows for our quiver.
After lunch we had a VERY exciting special guest......Pat Parelli and Casper! Pat gave us a talk on the circling game, and used Casper for demo, and of course did some inspirational stuff too! It was fab. Apparently Pat doesn't do those kind of demo's anymore so that was really cool. And it was cool to see Casper seeing as he doesn't go out on the road anymore.
That was followed by our play session with our horses. I had a great session, apart from the fact i got a learn burn. I had a 50% chance of being right, and i was wrong! Oh well. The rest of the session was great though. Played circling at liberty, and sat on a barrel in the middle. We did transitions, and change of direction whilst i was on the barrel, that was SO cool. Then we had a little play with increasing his confidence with zone 5 driving, and we managed to canter and come back to a back up from zone 5. Dead chuffed!
Also, i didn't have a lot of respect out in the meadow field, so i had to make a game out of grass eating. So, i sent him on a circle, and every time he thought about eating grass i'd change direction. He soon got the idea it was much harder to try and eat than it was to just maintain his responsibilities.
Last night was cool too. We had a campfire with Pat. Megan(faculty), Sam(ranch crew), Nicole(tour team) and Jake(tour team) also joined Pat on guitars. We had a evening of sing alongs, and general fun. I really enjoyed that.
I'm gonna scoot now. Remember i need to know asap if you want that discount to come here!!!!
Take care,
Elle xxx
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I have the wonderful opportunity to spend 6 weeks at the centre of the parelli world...Colorado ISC!!! This is a journal of my time here....
7 comments:
Hey, do you read your mails too, or do you only check this blog?
Kisses,
Noor
And I get to ride a sulky when I come back here! Cool huh?
i check mail, don't worry. I got your email.
What is a sulky?
WOW Elle,
a learn burn, cool liberty,
Pat, Casper AND campfire !!!!!!
xxx
Well, you know those races with trotting horses where the people sit on little carts behind the horse, instead of on top of the horse? The little cart is called a sulky.
Apart from the fact that a lot of the horses are totally RB, it is very impressing to see, because the horses can run like 70km/h and when they trot they appear to fly.
Keep doing well at the ISC...
Noor
Although I wonder if cart is an English word... I hope you got the picture.
yeah i understand. Thanks for telling me. Learned something new already today!
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