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Judi Ruffo

19-07-2005, 09.09 pm

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ok i'm a happy camper..after deciding to "take to my bed" no no literally, to go and train some more before 'throwing myself to the lions " oops new name...anyway ...I have been focusing..focus hocus focus pocus focus :lol: on the sequence changes and passage/piaffe ...welll ...wow...passage that is...

BUT HELP HeLP, desperate hopeless rider needs trainer to help with timing of ones/....horsey is fine ...rider is ...welll challenged...so help guys any siggestiosn(oops red wine) who is th best at this movement......remeber challenged rider........needs help :wink: :oops:
gads i love these little icon guys...could use them on the highway

Zephyr

11-08-2005, 11.52 pm

Judi
Ones are a very individual thing, timing being the most difficult thing to coordinate obviously, because by habit we like to wait for the change to come through before we start asking for the next one. In ones you just have to get the rythm in your head and body and just go with it, even if they don't always happen. I think teaching ones is more difficult than teaching a horse single changes for the first time!

The important thing to remember is that while its great when your horse learns the exercise of going one-one, which is not too hard to teach, be careful not to let them think that is the whole exercise. When one-one is established reliably quickly push for one-one-one (ie true C to CC to true C). It may take a week of asking over and over again, but be sure to let the horse realise there is more to the exercise than change and change back. When you can get three, you're home and hosed! After that I would teach them one-one, then a two, then one-one, then a two etc with three or four one-ones down the long side. Be able to do this on both reins. After that its just a number game, or a waiting game, just keep trying for more and more in a sequence. I think I spent 6 months doing one-one and feeling pretty clever with myself until I was told I had to extend the exercise, then it took a week to even achieve a third change. From there I one day fluked 4 super ones out of a canter pirouette. Then I got stuck on 5-7 ones for 2 months, then they all just came. Each week I got an extra changed tacked onto the end. The way I got them wasn't pretty (with my position), but I got them, and then I refined the exercise. Now they're super-reliable, and we can do 40 odd across a paddock!