Thank you, Nesta, for your planning and direction on the Roman Drills work.
That was a fun and new challenge.

I look forward to hearing from folks as to their thoughts for another collegium.

Tegan


--- In CGequestrian@yahoogroups.com, "Nest Gryffry" <nest_verch_gryffry@...>
wrote:
>
> Equestrians -
>
> I wanted to thank Sun Pony Ranch for hosting our Unser Hafen Equestrian
Mini-Collegium Practice yesterday. The weather held out very nice for us, which
was wonderful! We had 11 riders and 10 horses in attendance, just the right
number for us all to be able to work together. Once again the SPR horses worked
out very nicely, and we are so pleased to have that option. I also want to
thank everyone who came out yesterday. I hope you enjoyed yourselves. We were
so excited to be able to try out the new double quintain, which most of the
horses adapted to very well!!
>
> Tegan and I chatted a bit last night, and we also chatted with Moyra about
ideas for next time, and we would like to get everyone else's feedback as well.
This was a trial run this time, and as such we know that some things went better
than others. We tried some new things and worked off of what had gone well at
the last practice. For those of you who attended please e-mail back to us the
following ideas so that we can plan for the future -
>
> 1. What you enjoyed the most
> 2. What didn't work as well for you
> 3. Ideas for next time
>
> Think about:
> a.. Structure (Too flexible? Not flexible enough?)
> b.. The activities themselves (do you prefer practicing whole items - rings,
obstacle course; or smaller pieces to work on specific, isolated skills (leg
yeild/spear throwing? or some of both like we attempted yesterday? Do you want
more instruction before you start each activity? Or would that be overkill?)
> c.. The off horse activities (would you like to see more of this? Our first
collegium had much more off horse activity planned, but we chopped most of it
out for yesterday to maximize riding time),
> d.. Feedback (what kind of critical feedback/advice/tips/techniques would
you like? Do you want more? less? From who?)
> For those of you who couldn't attend, we still want your feedback too! Just
tell us what kinds of activities you MOST want to practice at our practices.
>
> Feel free to e-mail your comments to the whole group or just back to Tegan or
I.
>
> We have two half day practices still to come this summer - July 18 and August
15 with Tailteann Games (our really COOL champions event) in the middle on
August 1 which is also out at Sun Pony Ranch.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nesta
>