In today's lesson, Kathryn learned to post without stirrups. She and Penney both did excellent. She performed confidence building excercises (not that she lacks confidence in any way) such as trotting with her eyes closed with her arm's extended out beside her. We even got a little silly and played "Simon Says". She did really great today. She picked posting-without-stirrups up very quickly. She also learned the easy way to clean a horses hooves and she did a very good job (she helped me clean Jack's feet). She does need to remember to take a halter and lead rope with her to catch the horse, but that was ok today - she was just taking the "Natural Horsemanship" route today





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What's wrong?

Kathryn looks a little stiff in this picture, almost like she's holding her breath. She needs to try to relax and really focus on feeling the horse and moving with the horse. She looks like she's trying to grip with her thighs.

What's Right?
Kathryn does have a naturally great seat, she does not bounce all over the horse.



Kathryn is very relaxed in this picture. This looks a lot better. She's playing Simon Says in this pic.

We have 2  more pictures but for some reason they don't want to upload. Keep up the good work Kathryn and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE until our next lesson.