Bitless training pt. 2 [11.Nov]

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Hey fellow horse lovers! :purple_heart:

So i am back again and i am TRYING to keep active and post more ... let's hope i can keep to that. :sweat_smile:

In general life has been completely crazy and sometimes i just don't know why ... but thats not important. You are here for my bitless training prozess, aren't you? So i will keep to topic!

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Last time i went to ride Holly, i convinced my mom that my mare was a lot calmer without a bit. To be honest she was really surprised how calm and happy Holly seemed, so we decided to order a Sidepull ... but this one was to small ... sadly. So we are going to send it back and let them replace it with a bigger one, but here is a picture of it:

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... please don't mind the small chaos in the background

We are currently waiting for the bigger one to arrive, so i have to be patient, which i suck at :joy: . So due to that i rode her in the ropehalter yesterday and ... boy let me tell ya ... she had tons of energy ... like wow, but she was sooo good while i was riding, she was even so good that i decided she could make a few fast and big circles. It was A M A Z I N G, i love the feeling of going fast and she apparently loves to run like crazy.

I even convinced my mom to try her bitless, especially because she is a little unsure about me riding bitless, so even tho she had a hurting foot she got up on holly and rode her a little. To be honest i think she really was surprised how well she did.

Yes, Yes i know we still have to work on a lot of stuff ... for example she isn't moving away from my leg like she should, she is not really going in form as bitless is completely new for her and sometimes we have some communication difficulties ... but we are working on it and we have no reason to rush things.

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Ok so now that i have talked about everything, but that one thing i wanted to say 🤦‍♀ well yeah then lets start ...

So the thing i originally wanted to talk about is her progress:

We worked on our big fast and slow small, on our spins and on the rundowns (where she really likes to go fast).

She did great with the circles we only had some troubles with gowing from our fast circle to our small one, because she was like "Nope, i wanna run" but we always had that problem.

The spins were great and i am sooo proud of her and i am so in love with her🥰.

Yeah ... now the rundowns ... this was very interesting. The first few were CRAZY ... she ran down there as if the devil was following her and when i tried to calm her or get into a small circle she would just go faster ... that was fun ... my mom was shocked and said "Stop her and get down!" Did i listen? Nope i didn't. It took a few attempts to get her calm but after about 15 minutes she calmed down and did the rundowns in an ok pace ... still a little fast for training ... but we are working on it.

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So i see you are all caught up now ... thats great!!! I hope you enjoyed my little blog.

Thanks for staying until the end :blush:

I hope to see you again ~ Lia :purple_heart:

Ps: You are awesome !! :purple_heart: !!

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