Getting excited about the Parelli's rolling in to our area this weekend for the Parelli Live! event. I'm planning for for a very exciting weekend, which for me, will be four days of being immersed in "Keepin' it Natural." My hope is that I come back refreshed and ready for a more positive and progressive mindset when I return to the barn. It will be hard to be away from my horses for the long weekend but I'm sure the experience will be well worth it. I'm long due for some support from like minds and can expect to be truly inspired.
The last month I've beefed up my sessions with Lady and was hoping to submit a video for a "Lesson with Linda" or at least submit my long overdue audition for level 2 freestyle, but didn't get the use of a video camera in time. Last Sunday I was finally able to commandeer the help of a non-horsey friend to shoot me and Lady preparing for the audition. I hope to have some footage to throw up to Youtube soon, but I'm waiting on a microphone so I can provide some narrative. We came very close the getting all the compulsories in, and a video to submit in hopes of earning the coveted blue string, but when I got home to load the footage, mounting with savvy was cut off, as well as Sideways. The Sideways game is a challenge for Lady since she's 1. "drinker of the wind", 2. a forward mover, 3. a mare, and 4. very right brained when she's stressed. We have been practicing our sideways on line and she's finally getting the hang of it. The big payoff was that Lady really surprised me when I rode her to the wall. All of the sudden we just clicked and performed sideways under saddle down the wall with very little cueing, and even better was we have never attempted this under saddle. It is little victories like this that reinforce to me that truly, proper preparation on the ground yields big results under saddle.
