A friend and I are thinking about taking our horses to Parelli lessons this Thursday morning. Just something new to stimulate us! I am still a John Lyon's person.
I've enjoyed his magazine publication, "Perfect Horse" and I have a short DVD done by his son, Josh, that has some trick training on it. I should either sell it or start training some of the things on it. The cold winter months should be a good time for that.
Oliver and I are walking on a halter, going over items in my arena that I made for him as an obstacle course..... I got him to go from walk to trot once or twice and then he quit.... I had my friends over and he was super sweet.... and Toby doesn't want to do anything anymore..... and my feet hurt so bad I want to cry... that's new.... it just started and I don't get the non stop foot cramps that are wrecking my days.
Shirley, I am just wearing my regular shoes... cuz this is a brand new problem..... I got some clogs from my tack store that accidentally are the only shoes that bring relief... last night I massaged them by rubbing over a tennis ball... they feel better today.. my chiropractor even adjusted them for me....
let's see, we are just barely starting... so we go around barrels, over our boards that I bought at the lumber yard, a log, we have cones...... that's about it.... I actually am practicing not looking at him, and how our distance is and if I'm being focused in what I am asking... and he's following along sorta shoulder to shoulder... he's not resisting either, which is what I really was working on... he used to scoot off and try and get away before.... then after like two or three things that he did for me, I let him go.... and then the next day do a bit more... it took a few times to get him not to be jerkey with the lead rope.... :)
My accupuncturist also recommended magnesium for leg cramps and it helped me alot.
For some reason taking a drink of water during a cramping episode will often help too as I learned from the reflexolgist. That helps with Charlie horse type cramping.