A month of back pain, back bones out of place is over. Fancy is “back” on track of my dream goal!
Surely no one can ever forget my passion to do flying lead changes to pass the requirements of the Parelli Level 4 Tests! Fancy has given me conditions and I have failed all spring and summer to meet her requirements.
She has been secretly teaching me another requirement and I recently became aware of the last condition. Fancy has been trying to do a flying change before I asked. Her head is turned in the opposite direction of the way I want to do the flying change. When I turn her head and my body asks for the flying change, there is nothing there.
Fancy has been trying to tell me that her head needs to continue on the original path plus I must obey all the other conditions. Tonight, I did that and Fancy gave me several flying lead changes in both directions. Fancy was treated like royalty tonight. I dismounted after getting three flying changes, loosened the saddle and petted her every five to ten steps back to the barn. She got around twenty treats and much more adoration.
I didn’t think she was over her back pain yet and needed more canter practice to get the legs going correctly. Well, she proved me wrong. She was trying to do a flying change, so I said, “What the heck!” Let’s give it a try.
She did it! I am beyond happy, ecstatic!