tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21410308549414975322024-03-13T13:26:11.373-07:00Off breed DressageLogan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-82924321757364547102013-07-23T21:31:00.003-07:002013-07-23T21:31:40.061-07:00DQ moment? Yes thank you!<span style="font-size: large;">I totally had a DQ melt down moment recently! Gasp! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No really though, I had a like a full out, I'm quitting mid lesson break down. To be fair it was raining and windy enough to make the chicken coop sound like it was going to blow over and I just couldn't seem to get it together even though pony man was awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Dorothy in me new we were not in Kansas anymore, but THAT wasn't why I wanted to quit and quit hard. I was riding without a SINGLE ounce of ability. It was like I couldn't just do basic things, like I dunno canter. Anyway I gave up, which isn't like me, but maybe this is a good sign... Rather than blaming the horse and snatch kick snatching at the reins, I just said nevermind baby pony boy, lets go back to the barn... Pookie. Yes I AM turning into THAT rider LOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lucky for me NO proof of that in photos cause these are a totally different day :D </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But here they are!</span><br />
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Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-3107695861097409162013-06-23T16:22:00.002-07:002013-06-23T16:25:06.759-07:00Frizz aka Rockaloosa does 1st level !!!!<span style="font-size: large;">Forgive my terrible seat... Sitting trot work and lengthenings wore me out! I started to literally just pray the lesson would be over cause I was flapping like a chicken lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">BUT wanted to share Frizzy progress cause he is so cool and always a willing boy!</span><br />
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Big canter<br />
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Regular canter<br />
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Stretching canter and trot<br />
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<br />Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-21114865851064069922013-05-25T14:09:00.001-07:002013-05-25T14:09:25.469-07:00What? Spots! Yep!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Meet Lincoln!!!!!! </span></strong><br />
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This is Soldier's (Frizzy Man) half brother Lincoln! Fabulous boy, big boned, quiet but energetic. Very green and very sweet :) The trainerin is riding him already at this show coming up in some intro as his canter is still a bit of a gallop!<br />
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What is super awesome is he goes like a friggin jumper! His back leg comes so high at the canter, boing, boing, boing! These are some diamonds in the rough for sure ;) <br />
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Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-11702473212375209962013-05-06T17:33:00.000-07:002013-05-06T17:33:02.969-07:00Show time for the Frizz man! Round two :D<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">TL 2 61% out of the ribbons</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">TL 3 62% with Sally Oconnor and 4th place :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This field was super nice, lots of lovely rides, and I got to watch them all after rushing to run through my two tests that were super sloppy by standards, but we get to do it all again next month! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still Frizz hasnt dropped below a 60 in any training level testings and he's now done them all :D</span><br />
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Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-31762174670168605682013-04-16T18:43:00.000-07:002013-04-16T18:44:45.209-07:00Staying motivated! Staying motiva...ZZZZzzzz Stayin-Zzzzzz<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bah it’s been a long road from the show back onto motivation
boulevard. I turned right then left but seemed to be taking detours, some
baths, bareback riding, some small amount of tears over my horse rubbing half
his tail out once the heat came and made him itchy….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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seem to ride anymore. Like the show was TADA I’m done so now I can just trail
ride or something.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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supplements to help with the itches, coat, a cough he got, then some fattening
junk food cause his weight had dropped… Ugh does it ever end? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and I do that, it’s like an oversized toddler who somehow has to learn algebra,
stay clean while doing it, and look somewhat happy about it all!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">So how TO stay motivated? Well I think for me its
recognizing that some times I just WON’T be! I will probably want to take some
breaks, with yet another greenie project, teaching the SAME thing in a
different new way somehow wont always be fun, and glamorous, but I tell myself
that merrygoround may only have ONE purple unicorn on it and though it leaves
it comes back around… IT DOES At some point!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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YEAH when it does :D<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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So we took Soldier to his first show 59% in intro with some tiny hops up in front and 63% much better second round if not conservative to try and keep all fours on the ground. <br />
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2nd place at his first outing and with only 90 days of training :D<br />
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Terrible seat issues at the show I WAS hunchy the bear on frizzy the horze....<br />
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Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-44055853977158376742013-01-31T18:58:00.001-08:002013-01-31T18:58:32.899-08:00Mark Todd Clinic! Gotta love eventers!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
This was a very laid back kinda meandering lemmings type of clinic. I think at first Mark was setting up jumps and unfortunately I didn’t even realize who he was so I didn’t offer him a hand while I was busy snapping shots of a pro-rider from texas who was warming up in a gallop on a gorgeous pony <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span> He wasn’t too shabby himself ;) </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span>Finally things progressed into warm-up but at first no sound system so half of the auditors stood in the arena. I was there with my trainer who is still healing from surgery so we stayed in <nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://stepbystep78260.yuku.com/topic/4523/Mark-Todd-clinic-report-with-lots-of-pics#" id="FALINK_2_0_2">the bleachers</a></nobr>. We missed a few huddles but honestly I did not expect a grand speech and am glad I did not because Mark is a man of few words it seems and so did not attempt to entertain us all (fine by me). He wasn’t at all interested in the auditors or most of their stories and I thought that was quite funny. There obviously was more reason to train the people he was there to actually train more in a lesson type feel which was also fine with me since I see more and glean more from riders actually riding, corrections, and then the trainers jumping aboard to show me rather than a book worth of words. No words can replace seeing a good hand and leg feeling some frisky critters rib cage up until it melts into the pot of gold its owner always hoped it would be ;) </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span>Oh and by the way it was freezing of course. Warm every day but that one. Ugh. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span>One rider’s horse did swim a jump in the gymnastic of 4 fences and she jumped the second on her pommel the third she fell completely sideways hanging and recovered by the fourth fence taking it as if nothing had happened all with only a stride or two between each to recover. We all clapped including Mr. Todd, it was quite a show of horsemanship. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span>It was a great clinic and for the people who actually rode it was surely life changing, and for me I remembered lots of things that could be useful in my riding or even just ingraining good horsemanship into my brain again refreshed my want to strengthen my back and half seat myself through a good gallop once in a while <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">You can say something as simple as “I love blue breeches!”on a forum, any forum, even a forums labeled “This is the forum ONLY for people with sense and some form of accomplishment”, yes even on that forum you could post a benign little nothing quick sentence on your Iphone at the mall sipping a latte and completely happy and cheerful and someone will see the evil in it. The pure hatred you must have for every other breech? Are our breeches not good enough for you? <o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Are you a breech snob? I bet all of your blue breeches are expensive and dipped in gold! We like breeches that are different and unique and you must be judging our down to earth breeches. In fact I think personally that you have always been very small minded about breeches and from what I’ve read you can’t even wash them correctly…<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">So then you come home from your mall day to find a barrage of breech outrage and even if you try to diffuse it with, “I have cheap breeches too!” “I really have all kinds of colors.” “I actually think I clean them just fine?” but it’s too late… They have found out your nefarious hatred for heinous breeches everywhere… Sigh.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anyway Im having some kind of nostalgia lately. Lots of reasons I won’t go into here but its making all kinds of things seem so mall in the scheme of things. For now I just want to enjoy my riding and be thankful for the different horses I get to use and work with </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">So I promised to talk about some of the training Ive learned lately and one of them is a biggie to me of late. Change of figures. Do something a few times and move on. Figure 8’s? Great do a few each way. 20 meters? Get a good one and move on. Rail? Yes but come off and onto it a few times in small s’s and wide s’s and add circles sprinkled in. Change of direction often. If there is resistance longer than a few strides it’s not going to change by doing exactly the same thing for another few strides<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-90401966284709150222013-01-01T13:13:00.001-08:002013-01-01T13:13:19.297-08:00Happy New Year peeps!
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So here are some pictures of the Walkaloosa </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> He is a joy to work
with most days. Has a bolting issue whenever he has to work too much but
luckily for me he is none too fast and very slow legged so it’s kind of like
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since these pictures I’ve had one really nice roundish ride
but the TROT he does when he does it vaults me out of the saddle! He has some
impulsion behind naturally which is nice but Im not used to it because my
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Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-20362290127791610562012-12-25T13:56:00.001-08:002012-12-25T13:56:33.308-08:00Shut up dressage!!! I just need a facial! GOOOSH!
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great gloriously rolled detail. Somebody's been eating well this holiday and
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I bake cookies like everyday right now like some kind of
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blachhhh! Someone teach me how be finicky… Please? I want to whine and send things back at resteraunts. I want to pick at my meal and have people beg me to "Woulja just eat something skinny!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I never hack out anymore. I never just go to ride but I DO
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between that is only getting in the way of saddle time. I enjoy my family of
course and love them dearly, but aside from them I get x amount of minutes for
mommy self time. Its either spent on horses or horses for the most part but
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Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-34275779101782116782012-12-23T20:55:00.001-08:002012-12-23T20:55:45.806-08:00Walk your own loosa.....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghk_6qJgdv_XuBVuGzv3ppHsXYpNDv4b7Pe1AJkqNn1o7HTvmT7DPN97g6Fo0UMMj8JCNIE9UwX3SEaYjHjZ8WtG1hVcktR5jPXfZxNaY3z0okOPUP6iA3ApPmRv5XQvL6HNd5eJpRDJ8m/s1600/soldierpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghk_6qJgdv_XuBVuGzv3ppHsXYpNDv4b7Pe1AJkqNn1o7HTvmT7DPN97g6Fo0UMMj8JCNIE9UwX3SEaYjHjZ8WtG1hVcktR5jPXfZxNaY3z0okOPUP6iA3ApPmRv5XQvL6HNd5eJpRDJ8m/s320/soldierpic.jpg" width="240" /></a>Meet my newest off breed member of the fam! <br />
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Soldier boy!<br />
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He is a (drumroll please) Walkaloosa! <br />
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Half Tennessee Walker and half Appaloosa :D<br />
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I have ridden him about 5 rides and they have varied from extra interesting to cant steer to a bit of bolting away in canter since he doesnt like the left lead to surprise surprise this boyo has some moves in him!<br />
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Very green, but has been hacked around on the trails so has some miles under his belt. Just dont ask for circles or steering!<br />
He doesnt gait and he can trot with actually nice regularity.<br />
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Quick pics for your viewing pleasure! <br />
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Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-20013072989504533192012-12-20T17:09:00.001-08:002012-12-20T17:09:08.596-08:00Can't you cant- er -er - Basics in your face!So I totally forgot to talk about some things I have learned along the way and so instead of doing it all in one post Ill talk a bit about each gait.<br />
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I have been smurfing along and rubbing shoulders with GP riders to try and steal some of their "ways" and though it doesnt magically make me wake up a female Edward Gal (Or a male Anky??) I have learned quite a bit!<br />
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Basics basics basics.<br />
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I go read about people hob nobbing (sp?) with those who get hob nobbed on and all I see are... Good. Solid. Basics.<br />
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Lack of fear of new things and hard things but in small bites, but really, essentially, boring smoring basics perfected.<br />
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Leg yeild seems to the be the current old new and yes even at canter.<br />
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But wait! Wont their legs tangle up and everyone die? Small bits and bites my cool reading friend. Tiny ones. Personally at canter I like to do it at a walk or trot first before canter to make sure all coordination is good and they are supple enough anyway.<br />
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Then once I am cantering I like to just use it a tiny bit like if Im at the rail and could inch a bit closer to start. <br />
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Of course spiral in and out using it a bit there on a circle.<br />
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Then after they show ability with this I will at a later point do a very straight canter asking for them to move laterally yes :) <br />
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These pics dont show any lateral just canter to share but that is one tidbit at this gait that Ive learned recently to use in my tool belt. Ill try to put more each time I think about as I go!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sooooooo I always have some fad diet or some new workout I’m
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I tried Pilates last night. Oh, no, not just any Pilates
where you lay on the floor and have to hold different painful positions that
have you checking your bday date to make sure you actually are not 90 years old
because you must be if the gal on the screen can keep her leg in that position….
I call this the cat cleaning itself position, anyway if the gal is holding that
position and not only are you NOT able to do it you are also very much
obviously doing something else entirely. You cant even fake it…. Not even
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">No. I did the resistance Pilates
with the stretchy thing should come with a date on it of expiration because I
swear after too many stretches it WILL break and honest to goodness its going
to happen when I’m in the worst position ever, with my eye lined up directly
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Have I told you that I am clumsy
yet? Oh, well, let me just be sure you realize just how clumsy. Ive literally
stepped into not one, two , but THREE items on my floor that COULD be stepped
into since having a daughter. Oh well that happens you say. Not at the same
time. Foot goes into little tiny wagon, I jump hop and trip into another foot
into a box, the one in the wagon leaves the sliding plastic vehicle of death
and steps into the play box. Imagine the stupidest stunt on a comedy you have
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My husband tells me all of the
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anyway I simply cant tell you how
stupid it was of an idea to give a clumsy person a stretchy thing and have her
pull and wrap and pull it and supposedly try to do it all with a certain amount
of grace. I looked like a bear that had just left hibernation and stepped into
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Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-8977705412276851362012-11-18T20:17:00.001-08:002012-11-18T20:17:38.224-08:00We wish you a merry counter canter and a happy square halt!<br />
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Have you ever just felt like the Holidays are going to suck the life out of your riding but its a really nice break?<br />
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Honestly I have been riding and working on my riding and reading up on my riding and posting on the boards about my riding and buying new stuff for my riding and dreaming about my riding and then well it is Thanksgiving/Christmas/New year and repeat, buuuu--- uuuut this year I just feel like taking some time to do the dang thing. Yep. Meals and all, tree and decor.<br />
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Seriously, this has nothing to do with my new status as a mother ( eye roll ). No really. Okay maybe a little teeny tiny stocking at the end of my non-existing-military issued imaginary chimney has something to do with it.<br />
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Instead, this year, I put the brakes on the whole rush towards I dunno what and decided it was time for a little break :) <br />
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If it goes anything like my riding I will have to take a few lessons in turkey basting, and probably forget to drop my heels while baking santas cookies.<br />
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Dashing through the snow, on a one horse open sleigh? Is he behind the verticle you ask? <br />
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And just what in the North Pole is a jingle horse? (giddyup jingle horse pick up your feet)<br />
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Speaking of picking up your feet have you been on the boards lately? All of that new stuff going on there!? JUUUST kidding. Its still right were you left it mid mud slinging at anyone who can actually ride the jingle into their horses vs the shuffle into their buffalo.<br />
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I will leave you with this. My daughter just got a new rocking horse from her Auntie from the west. It neighs and makes sounds. The first thing she did was try and check its teeth... Good girl.Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-33397602187257655492012-09-13T20:47:00.005-07:002012-09-13T20:47:55.852-07:00Ain't that a kick in the head...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">At three thousand visits someone has to be reading this so I
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deserves and I climbed the ladder up to the big high rises where I picture a
far more likable boss. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m crossing the
road fully dressed the part (I picture myself very thin in this scene), and as
I go to step across the lines in the roadway suddenly I see a cavetti and feel
that bounce the horse gives going over those manmade hazards (albeit effective)
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a couple of months. She is German and like a real German from Germany unlike my
half breed German self that only really means I have big bones, feet, and have
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all know the Olympics brings out the patriot in all of use right? Right?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Well not really... There are plenty of woman who have the brain of a bathroom stall handwritten message to that (beep) Jessica. I know at times the green monster has made me think things, even say things that I am not proud of.... But you do grow out of these things (we hope), or at least we do grow out of being unable to stop continue to dig our grave after we notice everyone else in the room has stopped eating, or maybe even have lost their appetites over your tirade about how you could do it SOOO much better and just what is everyone including the judges, venue coordinater, spokes person, contenders, audience, that guy that cleans out the porta potty smoking because the sport that you once loved (50 years ago or even 5 minutes before you started your last period), is now completely abusive, impracticle (like thats ever changed) and just. plain. wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My final thought of the day is to go ahead and get those flying monkeys and put THEM in fluffy's stall MKAY? Cause you've elevated to witch while the rest of us still wanna see the best go against the best and dream lollypop dreams of ever getting "there" so you can hate us too ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hopefully Ill have some new horses to add to the roster... I recently got to ride some pretty awesome Connemaras and we have a Percheron coming in YAY!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span>Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-61102055461918724302012-07-13T20:45:00.000-07:002012-07-13T20:45:26.805-07:00Making the grade! What? No papers? Gaps! No brand?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am sooo soo soo behind this video is about 6 months ago and prob 20 pounds too sadly enough! <br />
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Since the hubby has come home we have caught up on eating in a big way ! <br />
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Anyway I do believe that the picture above is NOT a rider sizing up his competition, but rather one who is trying to see where everybody is at???<br />
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I feel like dressage SHOULD be like this. See those horses to the rear? Pretend they are the 100 billion dollar FEI perfect pony owners. You can A. Focus so much on that, that you get left in the starting gate. B. Focus enough on it so that you get left behind. Or you CAN do what the great Big Red did and run your own race!<br />
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I promised I would ride what could be ridden and a LOVELY addition to my blog was Bella. A mare trained by her teenage owner primarily, and mostly in western disciplines. We did a video of her first ride EVER in dressage and left in UNCUT for your enjoyment.<br />
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She is a grade mare, and 5 years old. <br />
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<br />Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-18441656795664842832012-05-17T17:56:00.002-07:002012-05-17T17:56:55.802-07:00Just friggin fall off already!! It's a bird, it's a train, NO it's the anti-trainer!!<o:p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></o:p><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a point in dressage where no matter how well you
ride, or how lovely your horse is you will wonder if you will make it through
the session without hitting the dirt, and even more so THAT other point will come
where you think that maybe it would be better if the broncing began, and the
dirt eating commenced, at least you would have had a ride end badly because
you couldn’t stay on the 8 seconds rather than everyone including your horse,
the trainer, that guy cutting the grass, but even more importantly yourself realize
that you had no clue what you were doing, have no clue what you are doing, and
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thing…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Your seat needs lots, lots, and
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<span style="font-size: large;">My sabbatical from blogging has been because I have been on
the high and low crazy train and assuming that we were just ZOOMING along with our
final act before my next blog a shock and awe where I report my amazing climb
to whatever it is we were climbing to… Instead it actually has been a slippery
slope full of suddenly realizing I am in new territory with the horse and
without a trainer. VERY quickly I resolved to figure it out… Very quickly we
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worth is usually okay because you put your best foot forward and the horse is
usually still willing…. "Alright crazy 5.30 pm lady who is always in a hurry I'll try it .. What the hay!" BUT once they figure it is a little easier to be
crooked in that there shoulder in, and a little quick and flat at that there
lengthening, and maybe just maybe lots of breaking and lots and lots of ignoring
half halts is the way to go because you really have no leg do you DO YOU? TA TA
TADA! You now are not realizing what kind of things you are ANTI-training. Dun
dun DUUUUUUUN… Phantom of the opera music because the twist on this
post-apocalyptic horror show is that YOU are the ANTI-TRAINER!</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: red;">Long story short er… Well actually long story long… A discussion was going on about yet another drug in Hunter land that USEF has jumped on but really unable to test for immediately, and I decided that a petition should be put together for the judges to review their pinning SOME of the slowest fattest most un-athletic animals you have ever seen a junior rider spur spur spur around the arena at half mast.</span></div><span style="color: red;"> </span><br />
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No matter that the Europeans ride a horse in light contact from the first ride... Here you MUST jog around with loose reins and then build up towards the moment where you can touch your horses face like you are losing yours and your horses contact virginity... Having trouble? You must not be majical enough.<br />
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</div>Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-8510499034710532822012-02-18T18:26:00.000-08:002012-02-18T18:26:35.948-08:00Swamps fixin to be full! WARNING! Evil ponies, high water, and boot camp ahead! (Plus a nifty video update)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOjHgJPcArlNWedcACWRBHHcDy2io8YlQOgs4w2IVwYfLAjfa8dImon1OoB8Hxb58_FbE9rkWRtTn1ah8m8SQycZ3FgwnWWpVKPnt4mOE9szH6qnFNoeSoMilXkQRmYrdc_58neG9haqQR/s1600/rain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOjHgJPcArlNWedcACWRBHHcDy2io8YlQOgs4w2IVwYfLAjfa8dImon1OoB8Hxb58_FbE9rkWRtTn1ah8m8SQycZ3FgwnWWpVKPnt4mOE9szH6qnFNoeSoMilXkQRmYrdc_58neG9haqQR/s320/rain.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b>The Red Bullet gets thusly named by me because after we had a pig visit the farm for a while and then disappear (er they eat stuff around here at farms… sorry) Gin seems to feel like the miniature that’s enclosure shares a fence line on one side of the arena is somehow related to the pig that used to end up in her shed eating her food and basically scaring the poop out of her and her neighbor… When he (the miniature we are talking about him again as ole what's his name but he tastes delicious is in piggy heaven) dares to move around in his own pen being that he is knee level and as wide as a 4 wheeler - there must be some ulterior motive to all of that tiny mouth eating he does on the grass! When he is not in the same spot the next go around of arena rail she demands to be able to stare.. Only that seemingly adds to the nerves about said killer pony and a couple of times we have left that side of the arena race horse style… Hey, she was bred for it remember! </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"> Sigh, “Look Ginger, he is a tiny menace to society. NO doubt he is planning the assignation of every quick and feisty redhead in the barn as well as something innocuous like world domination, BUT, and this is a big BUT! Ginger, are you listening? He is about the size of a golden retriever, and you have shown quite clearly I might add dear girl! That you can outrun him and with style.”</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b>Another snort and we are in agreement moving forward, but it takes a few silent arguments of this nature to get the point made… ON both sides ;) </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b>Now another phenomenon beside homicidal miniatures… My outward pointing toes (dun dun duuuuun Jaws music please). I am trying to remain loose in my seat but the parts that are supposed to tighten up seemingly are resistant to doing so much erm, work? And here I thought that my two Zumba classes would have put my riding level GP by now?!! Well at least PSG…. I mean I jumped around for an hour each for GOLDYLOCKSGYM sakes, and I demand results or I’m going to eat a cheeseburger right this instant! As well as last night. </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b>But alas, the muscles are not enough, and the loose is becoming better, hence the loose is out weighing the strength… In time, in time (sigh sigh sigh grrrrrr jump jump- bootcamp pushup pushup zumbaaaaaaaaa).</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</b></span></div>Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-15402917072908432312012-02-14T17:06:00.000-08:002012-02-14T17:06:12.989-08:00Greeks can Cha-cha too! (The chronicles of the Zumba rider continues)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0fK4S4SNUS5F8x4C0xredA5VbLAIrbbUKgK74TDhuH2bgtSfPvbS0eeH1KpgtNTAXnJNsCKPuCwkUyjt3U303ax-PYVcAXazYCT6IAUO_3PA8clHqDnnPcag3IjbOvA6pKTaoueXAwORY/s1600/greekpony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0fK4S4SNUS5F8x4C0xredA5VbLAIrbbUKgK74TDhuH2bgtSfPvbS0eeH1KpgtNTAXnJNsCKPuCwkUyjt3U303ax-PYVcAXazYCT6IAUO_3PA8clHqDnnPcag3IjbOvA6pKTaoueXAwORY/s320/greekpony.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">I think every rider has seen the ancient horse statues as a symbol of partnership through the ages… Like crop circles in a field, they provide a certain validation. We are crazy… But we are not alone <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span> Not in this world and not throughout history.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The greek’s have the horse thing covered… I mean Alexander the Great sets the war horse tone with his Bucephalus <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus</a> from ancient times and his horsey relationship is well documented… Even the greek word praus is where we english speaking peeps get the word meek from - meaning power under control (in context with animals particularly the taming of a high spirited horse). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">One put it: Harnessed power but never forfeited.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">I kinda like that!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">An oh so interesting thing to think about, since we riders completely understand when we have more power then control and vice versa </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">We aim to find a balance, or at least a close version of it. The goal of a ride is to end up getting off on a good note… But some days we get off with a pasted smile while the inner child with Olympic dreams cry's a tiny yell of defeat and dies a little more.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Dramatic>?!???? Do you KNOW any actual riders? I think I am mellow… By standards (cough).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Anywho, I do have a new video of me and the Red bullet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ll get to that…. For now I am updating you on the Zumba soggy bottom saga. Now say THAT ten times fast ! It’s cha-cha-riffic and the only way to get a room full of grown woman shaking their ta-ta’s in the name of health without having dollars thrown at them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Don’t worry guys! (like guys read this)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">We think we look like this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">But actually we look like this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, I have so much to blog about lately. Klassical dressage, wessage, pony envy, and BB boards that need a “Stop the insanity clique”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Alas, only so much time - back to the jiggling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">So the very same day I put my foot down (resounding jiggle), I checked my gym schedule to see that very eve there was a class… 2$? Who cares if I already pay a membership… Sold!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, my first instinct was to invite everyone I knew to come with because I hate doing these very social but awkwardly so events. I wanna meet you and see you sweat- in that order.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">My friends were supportive:Last minute invite to go workout at the gym when I am supposed to be eating dinner with my family? Sure! You can guess how many people offered to come with me…. Zero or cero ? Spanish in the name of Zummmmmbbaaaaaaaaaaaa!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">It doesn’t hurt that everytime I hear Zumba I think Simba from the Disney movie The Lion King where Mufasa yells SIMBA!!!!! Before falling to his death… Well I usually change my thoughts to the Hakuna Matata song at that point as I did when I was a child watching that horror scene blocking my thoughts subconsciously of my own death and that of my family with songs about “don’t worry for the rest of your days!” Lifes lessons in cartoon… Who thought of this?… Bambi anyone? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">So the class begins with an energetic tiny woman who kills the lights (thank God) and hits the music…. Cha cha! Everybody! (rolled r’s)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Shake this and shake that, jump jump jump, and even turn around a lot of times so the people in the back of the room get their chance to be up front exactly where they DIDN’T want to be… Ugh! No winning with my stay at the back routine this time. Can’t fool you tiny energetic woman with hips that shake like a salt shaker!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Thankfully my previous dance classes helped me stay in time and in line… Er NOT! I was floundering around cha’s and ta’s since it is simply a follow along and eventually you will get it type class. Eventually. IF not drop your 2$’s in the jar and hit the road jack.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Good thing was, I was so busy jumping around and around in the dark room to the actually pretty motivating music, I had no time to think about much else then the calories I was burning. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">My horsey and her back will thank me!<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">But then the strangeness begins… The music changes and another person comes mysteriously to the center of the room... She begins a slower more sensuous dance… Belly dancing>? I am checking around to make sure one of the Zumbaist haven’t gone postal. Like maybe one of the suburbanites have finally cracked. One too many pop tart requests at the Smith house this afternoon and Mr. Smith is late from work again since that new receptionist with the body of a fourteen year old started, and she has decided to take it out on all of us Zumba enthusiast because we embody the sexy and foreign (obviously)…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Okay, anyway, no one is freaking, so she must be part of the regularly scheduled program, and apparently everyone gets these nifty jingly waste bands decorated with flashy jewelry and things that make bell sounds to put on for effect. Er… You all have them? Im the only one who does not? You want to know if I want to borrow your’s? Um, maybe next time, I’m still new at this (and incredibly unsure if I want to wear a harem girls outfit to work out, I mean I just met you people)… Besides it may clash with my nike wear?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">So after a song or two of this it becomes okay, or maybe I am too tired to protest at this point, hence it being towards the end of the class. But then suddenly we went back to more jumping and sweating.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">At the end of the class when you are partially delusional from your brain being sloshed around Zumba style you are able to purchase one of the fancy shmancy get ups to be your own private harem girl at home (nod).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Ohhh could I!???</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Plenty to like and I will be returning as it is a very fun cardio class that keeps me moving-harem outfits notwithstanding <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></div>Logan Keyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02824565721532517789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141030854941497532.post-73861620317125456472012-02-11T10:32:00.000-08:002012-02-11T10:32:04.064-08:00Zumba for Black Beauty!! Video time... Er yay?<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Did I promise the good the bad and the ugly? Yes, well yes I did.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">So I set up the new camera in the arena… Pointed not quite right, and then ran a “test run” by hopping on directly without warm up or anything to just see what we would get.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">No edit other than parts where I am completely missing from view…</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Now mind you, for the Red bullets length of time back under saddle she is actually doing everything I could ask of her…. That was the not the problem.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Aside from my obvious inability to film myself without cutting half of the ride off, I noticed something.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Something kinda bouncy… Kinda opposite of firm… Kinda round… </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Cue scary music.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">THE DREADED <st1:place>HOLIDAY</st1:place> BOOTY!</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Between weather/job pushing my riding back to weekends and my own sudden interest in cereal at <st1:time hour="0" minute="0">midnight</st1:time>… I’ve have managed not only to pack on a few, but also to let it get as jiggly as a gummy bear on a hot day… Doing some hip hop.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">More cushin for the pushin…. Well the red bullet would say leave all that rap video shake for the bedroom. If she has to carry me around on her back, then maybe I could do a sit up more than to get out of bed.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I joke, I joke, but let us take a little detour shall we?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ginger came to me as the good ole gal. She is just kind and generous and even though she can be bit HIGH OCTANE at certain moments, her overdrive is hardly a shortcoming.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">But the strangest thing is every time I say her name I am reminded of the Ginger in Black Beauty. That movie impacted my life at such a young age like none other. Horrified, I would still watch it… And the scene of the dead Ginger on the cart haunts me to this day…. Well that and the naughty pony and evil children with whips.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Years later to get a horse uncannily close to what the Gingers used look like, as well as have her be an older horse that’s had so much life before her (of course this Ginger was well cared for). Full circle I’d say, and for some reason it gives me such a soft spot for her, being that this is the life the fictional ginger should have had.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">And we intend to keep it so ;)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Some quotes from the author:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">“Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is...”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">―<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2530.Anna_Sewell"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #666600; font-family: Georgia; text-decoration: none;">Anna Sewell</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/4639714"><span style="color: #666600; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Black Beauty</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">“we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">―<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2530.Anna_Sewell"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #666600; font-family: Georgia; text-decoration: none;">Anna Sewell</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/4639714"><span style="color: #666600; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Black Beauty</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">―<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2530.Anna_Sewell"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #666600; font-family: Georgia; text-decoration: none;">Anna Sewell</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/4639714"><span style="color: #666600; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Black Beauty [With Gold-Toned Horse Charm Necklace]</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I choke up quite a bit at that last one… If you know the book or movie you do understand I would think.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway… To make things happier again… Onto the Zumba part in all of this.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">So since I am all about fair to the horse, fair to the rider… I needed to work on my seat, and not just by sitting on the poor beast some more (frowny face).</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">So diet? Yeah, I guess. Exercise? Okay sure but what?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I begrudgingly pull up my local gym calendar to find all sorts of fun classes that sound interested but really boil down into, “We have to make kicking, jumping, and laying on the floor in various dirty positions sound cool so we give it a foreign spin by using names like Pilates, Yoga, Kickboxing, and Zumba.”</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ohhhh Zumba.. That sounds foreign enough for me! Sign me up!</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Video to include us settling into work at about 2 minutes if you want to skip that… Or to skip the entire parts where I remain jello and go to another thinner more refined rider video… Be my quest ;) </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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