Hmmmm...ok...counter canter. So, she's doing it, and it's not great, but nothing starts out great. We started initially with introducing counter canter using the 1-4 one loop serpentine. It took Nic about a day to process that, and the next day she did them perfectly (when I didn't mess us up) so 3 or so days later we started on the actual counter canter, going from centerline to the wall, and making about a 20m circle. I think she gets it, I just think is hard right now. Sometimes she makes it the whole 20m, and sometimes she changes behind. Yesterday she couldn't compute left counter canter at all (did perfect lead changes instead), but today we got the counter canter.
She gets tomorrow off, which is good. Since moving Nic to a full time training program, I've found that she needs 2 days off to keep from imploding. Which is fine. Because I need them too.
My legs hurt from keeping her between them, and from using them to bend her in half-passes and shoulder-ins, and also from bending her through her barrel when she loses her throughness. I can't believe how tired my legs are. And there's a lot of muscle down there already. I can't imagine what a weaker person must feel like.
