The next step, after the strokes on the Library Pony, was to see real live shots on a real live horse. Didn’t happen. It was far too difficult to hold the lead ropes, the mallet, and the camera. Also, I got scared of my horse and haven’t been riding that much, March 3,2024 being the last post. But here is some footage that may help, and reveals the main horse activity of the last 5 months or so. Hand grazing horses, tap-tap-taping with the foot mallet, all in search of the wild asparagus, i.e. the perfect, accelerating, gravity-creating contact with the ball.

So looking around the photo lib. I came across this. If you’re too scared to toget on, play on foot. Keep playing. What happens with the mallet is far the most important part of the game anyway. And being astride is not nearly as conducive to real improvement with the mallet as being on foot. So get with it.

See what I mean. None of this is easy. Onward and upward.