Good / Bad saturday.

Good: fit into jeans that didn't fit last summer

Bad: It was 25 Degrees C for my lesson and I'm still pealing from last weekend

Good: I got Lucas summer sheets and turnouts soaked and washed and hung out to dry.

Bad: Did I mention that my face, neck and hands are pealing from the burn I got last weekend?  Itchy!!

Good: Lesson day

Bad: I didn't make it though the lesson on Lucas.

I did some trot work, jog work and weaving in and around the trail equipment he got stuck but I got him out of it.  He's really hard to keep going lately, in the last two lesson so I think its time to re-introduce the spurs after a bit.  So the trot was ok and then we started working on the canter.  Our good direction was good but our bad direction wasn't so good.  I can only get the correct lead about 50% of the time going left so we were working on that and I just ran out of gas.  I couldn't keep my legs on him enough to keep him going, plus work my hands, plus dealing with Lucas attitude AND listen to what D was telling me.  I got a good canter the other direction and then because D was stumped about why we couldn't get him to go on the left lead (consistently) I asked him to get on.

D got on and had some issues with 'foreword' he was so lazy by that point and just didn't want to put the effort into trotting and cantering. But he got him going and after a bit had him picking up his left lead consistently.  D is a talented rider and a good coach but he has a hole in his teaching ability to be able to tell you what to do with your body to get the results.  Yes Lucas should pick up the correct lead all of the time, and the fact that everyone but me doesn't have issues says that its an issue in how I am riding but I cant figure it out on my own and D cant see it from the ground....

So by this point Lucas was wet and sticky, and I knew that we needed to rinse him off so it was a bit of a good thing that he was tired and sticky because he walked right into the wash bay and let me spray him all over with the hose and get him cleaned up and cooled down.  I didn't tie him, but I was happy with how he walked into the wash bay and stood quietly for me, so I guess we ended up with a good day after all.

Here is a cute video of Luca jumping the other night, I'm trying to work some different stuff into his lunging so that he doesn't get too board and keeps his body working.