Matador training!

I'm writing in the morning because I never got around to it last night. It was hella cold now that I'm used to the temp here! So I wanted to get back in bed and watch a movie!

Anyway our class time was fun. We learned about the shoulder-in, haunches-in, sideways and halfpass. I jumped in on the opportunity again to get a free lesson (meaning I volunteered for the demo!). It was really neat. I didn't realize the shoulder in was so slight, I was always overdoing it! It's really just a turn of my own shoulders. Then we went over the rest.

In the afternoon I went to the matador focus station. We had watched a quick clip in the classroom with a guy on his horse and a bull. It was absolutely fancinating!!! This horse was the most athletic creature I have ever seen! So we got to do simulations with that. I was on Blue and then an instructor would go to stab Blue in the butt with his carrot stick while I was doing the indirect rein, and tada, her booty swung around :):) It was so funny! Then we went straight into the direct rein so that her front end spun around. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!! Blue did not take her eyes off of the instructor and his horse from then on. She was not even about to get touched again!!!! She is such an awesome horse! I had two more people say that they wanted to take her from me! NEVER!!! She's mine, all MINE!!!!

Then I played some follow the leader games with some friends and we spend the afternoon doing some grazing. It was another great day!!!!!!!