We had a lovely moonlight ride last week before the crazy storm rolled in. It was so bright out that we lunged in a completely dark arena and could see fine. So she got a day of lunging in vienna reins- good for stretching the back after a packed weekend of lessons.
Afterward I hopped on her bareback and played around in the walk a little bit. I have figured out how many fun things there are to work on at the walk: clean halt-walk-halt transitions, circles, lateral work, etc. Most of these are especially fun to do bareback since you can really feel the body shape, the rythm, and the muscles.
I left the barn just beeming that night! It was such a treat to hop on her bareback. (My gelding is narrow and super boney, so her round muscled back was an absolute couch in comparison!) Plus it was just fun to be out there enjoying a quiet ride. Maybe its the trust building aspect, maybe its feeling the horse's muscles, I don't know, but it was just so much fun to have a bareback-moonlight ride!
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