No Pain, No Gain 11/22

Today was awesome! So I'm starting to make some new friends on my team so that's great! I got A. C. Some traumatic memories coming back. I'm proud to say I groomed him and saddled him all by myself. It took a lot of patience but I got him done :) bridling was a piece of cake. The ride was very productive even though we didn't do much. We worked on leg cues with some column movements. A lot of our team isn't very good at them so we pulled into the middle. They has us stand up in the stirrups and worked on rotating our hips in order to improve our foot position. It really hurts. Then keeping standing we had to drop our stirrups and keep ourselves up with our thighs core and knees. OMG owww! So then we had to go to the rail at a trot like this and AC does not have the smoothest trot ever. We had to go around like 8 times before they let us pick up our stirrups and sit down. Then we lopes in 8/4/2 then the ride was over. We literally stood for 30 minutes of it but it was really educational and is gonna improve our riding. Diagramming went well. We took a sequence test and turned in our diagram. Ten headed right into sloppy copies. Man they push us. We got 17 done in like 20 minutes. Then they went over some no no's for diagramming. Every team is a little different. Stampede doesn't let you trace over the pencil arrows with color they want the arrows to be just plain color. Oops I'm going to have to redo the three it just turned in. Lol so then I hung out with Westernaires forever trick roped with her a little and worked on my diagrams. I headed home and did diagrams for five hours and they are all done!!!! I will check them tomorrow because I probably made a mistake but that was my day :)