Sunday, April 25, 2010

riding bitless

Molly is noticeably heavy in the hand riding with the BB; much more noticeably so than when i first started riding her bitless way back whenever that was - i guess, i haven't ridden with it for a long time, and we'd been going relatively well last year in particular...

still, an opportunity to think about my seat, and we did eventually get STRAIGHT, not, head over to one side whilst i try to push her the other way...

which means that i did sort out my seat as much as anything else.

no grief getting on, and no charging off before i'd got the second foot in the stirrup, and no problem stopping to adjust the stirrup...

4 comments:

Mary Lou said...

It's always worth your time to think and work on your seat! I bet she will lighten up in your hands as your seat becomes more effective and she comes more underneath herself.

Jean said...

Sounds to me as if she is looking for some contact now instead of evading it.

How nice to hear she stands for mounting and the adjustment. And also great to hear that you rode so successfully and discovered something about your seat. Nice to accomplish something important like that.

Danni said...

Great to read all those improvements on weeks, months and years ago :)

Are you able to play with flexions in the BB?

Claire said...

i doubt it, danni!