Hello all,
Flushed with good feelings after my 1 hour hack, I booked a half hour private lesson! 
My goodness, it was much harder work than the hack! This made me feel like a rider, rather than a passenger!
For anyone who thinks you just sit there, you dont! It works muscles that have been dormant for ages!
However, I came away very chuffed, the instructor said my seat was good
and noticed that I was aware of my diagonals (and corrected them) when doing rising trot ?
She also complimented me on my hands,(not state of, use of) but said my heels had a tendency to come up when trotting, a fault I've always had.
Aaanyway, I think it does me good, helps to try to get more supple.
Plan is to do it fortnightly, but that will be weather dependent!
but better that than damaging the poor horses back trying to scramble aboard! Do you remember Sunday drives?
