Seven games and L1/2

Over the course of 2009/early 2010 we made great progress with our relationship. I attended some lessons with Lyla and Rachael which blew my mind. We had been concentrating on the seven games and I had't realised how bored Hummy had got. I just wasn't putting them to enough purpose and i realised it was time to halt my dressage lessons for a while. We had the time of our lives riding only with the halter freestyle for a while. I knew Hummy was claustrophobic with his bridle but the change in him after a few weeks riding with out it was amazing, we were hacking rounding up sheep and just gennerally playing without it and he was now comming to me in the field when i called. One of the things we were really working hard on was his canter transitions, he had a real hang up with right canter and in a bridle it was almost imposible to pick up. However in the halter he was getting better and better. I had started to play with the bowtie pattern and we were no longer trying to bog off with me every time I asked for R canter. He could do all the sideways stuff easily in the halter and collection was comming even freestyle now. But I still was not ready to put a bridle back on him. Our Liberty work was severely lacking although I had an amazing experience on a clinic with Rachael Moorland where we did more than I could beleive was possible with him right beside me. He still would not stay with me at home in the small paddock. I just was not interesting enough, however if I got more provocative he just bogged off faster. Definitely need to make a temporary round pen to progress this area of our journey. We go tto where we were playing at L 2/3 online and freestyle and were ready to film our auditions when Hummy was struck by injury.