Started with bit of lateral work in walk then trot/canter on a long rein to warmup.
Then took stirrups away and worked on small amounts of trot lateral work - renvers and SI. Really really must control the quarters in the SI - at the moment it's more like a leg yield than a SI. Renvers was good though! Really got him accepting the rein. Theory behind taking stirrups away was to sit on his back and stop him pinging me into the air in the walk-trot transitions. Then did some on and back in trot and some trot poles. Mustn't fall into habit of leaning back and leaning on his mouth in the medium trot. He needs to learn the signal for big trot. Did some counter canter and some medium canter trying to work on keeping the same tempo and riding the bigger stride, not asking him to go faster. Felt like he worked really well - didn't want to stop!
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