As Ready As I Will Ever Be....

Today was my last prep "equindultry" ride before I head off to the clinic. Tomorrow morning me and my saddle get on a plane and head for Atlanta. The ride today was again Wiley, still my personal favorite from all the rides I have done on other horses. We captured a lot of video today, we have been using this more and more in my lessons (if you haven't heard of Coach's Eye it is an amazing app) and I love being able to see what I was doing and process it from outside the saddle. Today was probably the best my hands and seat have ever been at the lope.

Here are some of the videos we captured...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev_NYyS9ONg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOBLcpJsWNE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpYoKgnl4Q4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt9txk6hNaQ

I promise after Atlanta a recap of all I learned riding all these other horses, but I can't not say today, this has ended up being about so much more than I planned going in. I did this to get ready for the clinic, but most of the lessons I have come out of it with go far beyond that. I have learned to ask questions I didn't even know I had before, I have learned how different every horse is, how each horse is geared for a certain direction and you need to find the horse that matches what you want to do, not try to make every horse do what you want it to be. I have grown so much in these last few weeks. I am a better rider, a better horseman and a different person. I gained a lot of clarity about my future that I never even knew I was missing.

Now it is off to Atlanta, and lets see if in learning all these other great lessons I also learned what I needed to for the clinic.