Back in the Saddle
The past two weeks have just pointed out to me that I NEED to ride horses to treat my Multiple sclerosis. I started off OK, I was slightly progressing in the difficulty of my minimal exercises, I was walking faster, needed fewer rest stops, and my muscles were getting stronger. Then—I hit the proverbial brick wall, everything got harder to do, I could not do as much, and I…
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Learning How to Use My Upper Thigh
Several weeks ago I had run into a quote from Stephen Peters that said that the lower legs do the driving aids and that the thighs do the collecting aids. From what Debbie has told me about how she gives her halting aids I knew that Debbie had already figured this out long ago, even it she had not put the idea forth in a pithy statement. After discussing this…
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I Get to See Debbie Riding Bingo
This week at Debbie's stable I got to show her how I “customized” my new Free Jump Collar so I felt comfortable using it on a horse. I used a combination of a Western curb strap, a 1” metal ring and a doubled up stirrup leather attached to the girth to keep the collar down at the base of the horse's neck, I added a pair of “breast-plate Ds” to the breast-plate…
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Debbie Tells Me to GET MY HEELS DOWN
On Wednesday, when I got to the stable, Debbie had already groomed Bingo. She told me how MUCH she liked having her own pair of the HandsOn grooming gloves since she could go ahead and groom Bingo for my ride. She really appreciates being able to get down and scrub the horse’s skin, especially his back and cannon bones where crud tends to accumulate. Using these grooming gloves really seems to prevent the accumulation of fungus in the horse’s…
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