Should'a posted this here -- lost my way

[Mecate]

Has anybody listened to this yet? I was hoping one of the subjects she would address is learning footfalls to get in time with my horse. I'm out in the stick and struggling to learn... (gotta get out of Alaska!). Anyway, this is like geometry (which I wasn't successful with in school!) and/or I must have a dead butt! I'm not kidding; feeling the pattern of her gaits is really challenging me. I have to learn it without help; no one to watch me. whine whine --sorry. Good news is that at least I know my horse's hind leg is pushing my opposite leg out. I am just starting to read the footfall article FrancaV posted... Any ideas? Thanks! deadbutt in Alaska aka Meg

[FrancaV]

I am still working my way through Leslie's CDs but I think they're wonderful. It's interesting how they're done, in sort of a Q&A format with topics sorted alphabetically! I thought that might be weird but when I got to listening to them it didn't bother me at all. These CDs will really make you think and one reason I'm not through them all yet is that I wanted to listen to some of them more than once. :) I can't tell ya if they'll answer your questions about footfalls or not but I sure think you'd find them valuable.

[Excess]

Has anybody listened to this yet? I was hoping one of the subjects she would address is learning footfalls to get in time with my horse. I'm out in the stick and struggling to learn... (gotta get out of Alaska!). Anyway, this is like geometry (which I wasn't successful with in school!) and/or I must have a dead butt! I'm not kidding; feeling the pattern of her gaits is really challenging me. I have to learn it without help; no one to watch me. whine whine --sorry. Good news is that at least I know my horse's hind leg is pushing my opposite leg out. I am just starting to read the footfall article FrancaV posted... Any ideas? Thanks! deadbutt in Alaska aka Meg

Do you want to borrow Speedy? He's such a bouncy horse you have no trouble feeling HIS footfalls =P

Alaska, huh? I thought I was in the boonies in Buffalo NY.

[FrancaV]

Buffalo, NY? No kidding! That's where my father was born and raised. He and my mother moved out to California before I was born, though, and I've only been there a few times. I do remember what it was like there before Dutch elm disease wiped out all the beautiful elm trees.