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I have stayed on the ground last week preparing for the longe evaluation. Venus is better but still not quite ok in her back. She also has tensions in her right shoulder and I hope the work from the ground, the longework included, will help her to stretch and get more relaxed in the areas. The feed back in the GW touchstone evaluation was very useful and I try now to find the connection between Venu´s inner hindleg and my hand. To find this I have to make the movement from her hindleg pass in a correct way through her spine, which I think is really difficult. I have looked also at the horses of my pupils. I think I can see now that left bended horses need to have softer angels in inside hindleg when they´re on the right hand. Helping them with this makes it possible for them to place the right hindleg a little more sidewards towards the POW. On the left hand the inside hindleg usually already is quite soft and it does not need to move more sidewards. On the contrary it needs help to step more forward. If the grip forward is missing the chest and spine are not rotating, the right front leg often points in the wrong direction and to compensate the neck bends too much to the left inside. Does this make sense to anyone? :)) It´s not a golden rule for sure, but maybe it is a pattern?
On the left hand it may be easy to bend a leftbended horse´s neck too much to the inside. This is Maggie & Ambra. Maggie helps her horse with placing the inside hindleg more forward and with keeping the head in right position.
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