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Video stills leading up to sitting.
In order.

 

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If you're wondering why I'm holding my leg, it's to balance my weight over her .

 

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[Bruce]

Look Ma, no hands!

 

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Jumped around and laid over her back from both sides this evening. Other than a little tail swish caused by my buffoonery, she didn't care, not to stop eating or to flick an ear my way, nada.
Going to toss on my vest & helmet tomorrow and redo everything. Vest is bulky and the velcro spooks horses sometimes, so need to get her used to the noise and I need to figure out how to hop on with it on. And helmet makes me nervous just putting it on, bizarre issue that I need to get over, lol.
Will probably hop up n over as well, so clearing out phone space to get it all on video!

 

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Hah, guess what's the first thing she did?

IDK if you can hear me scratch the vest, that's what freaked her out.

 

[Bruce]

I guess she had you all figured out! Maybe you need to dress like the dummy you were using earlier.

 

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I'm such a chicken!
But slow n steady wins the race...
Lol
Foot on hip and tilted to slide off, but I lost my nerve. =/

Will practice sliding off the offside on my gelding to make sure I won't do something lame like twist my ankle...

 

[Bruce]

Yeah, no getting hurt!

 

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She got a little spooked by my leg touching her right side yesterday, so didn't sit on her. Instead, more work on similar moves to get her used to it.
She even spooked when the metal clips touched the metal trough and made noise.