06/08/2025
Raise of hands- 🙋♀️ who has temporally lost one or both canter leads because of some other thing you were working on??? 
Someone learns haunches in for the first time, and then they slide they’re outside leg back to queue for canter, and their horse eagerly offers haunches in! You start working on the counter canter, and now, picking up the true lead, is a little sketchy.  Maybe you started teaching flying lead changes and now your horse is just making s**t up. 😂😂😂😂
Totally normal
I promise
It shows up and all sorts of ways ….
You start working on half steps, you get all excited about it, and now you can’t do an extended walk to collect and walk transition without jigging.
You realize you’ve been slipping to the left, so you really practice stepping into your right stirrup, and now you’re slipping into the right.
Your horse used to counter, bend and fall in on the inside shoulder, so you worked on getting them to melt off of your inside aids, and now, when you point their nose to the right, you are seriously worried about your left kneecap hitting the fence.
It may not feel like it in the moment, but these are all signs of progress!!!!! it shows that things are changing, and change is required in order to improve!!
 if the change you are getting is just bad, then take a step back and fix it…. But you still just learned something!! Reassess. Talk to a coach. Think about it. Fix any holes in your foundation that have been exposed to you.
And, of course, then try again
