Progression Plan - June Update

I made a progression plan in December to try and keep up the forward progress we were making. I'm finding that this is a great tool to keep my rides focused so I'm going to give regular updates on where we're falling on the list from month to month:

Legend:
Grey - achieved previously
Green - achieved last month
Yellow - working on currently

Definitions:
Good = relaxed + rounded topline + even rhythm + slow tempo (not overly slow, but not running) + correct bend in neck and body + acceptance of bit (eventually this definition will expand to include more, but this is what it means right now)
Consistently = means the movement is confirmed enough that we can achieve it every ride, even when it's a "bad" day, it doesn't have to happen on the first attempt though 

• Good walk work - achieved in 2015
• One good 10-15m trot circle - achieved in late 2015
• One good 20m trot circle - achieved in spring/summer 2016
• Consistently (every ride) able to get one good 10-15m trot circle - achieved in December 2016
• Consistently able to get one good 20m trot circle - achieved in December 2016
• Multiple good 20m trot circles - achieved December 2016
• Consistently able to get multiple good 10-15m trot circles - achieved December 2016
• Good trot circles with good walk-trot and trot-walk transitions - achieved December 2016
• Consistently able to get multiple good 20m trot circles - achieved January 2017
• Consistently able to get good trot circles with good walk-trot/trot-walk transitions - achieved January 2017
• Good Walk/Trot test patterns (circles, large arena, diagonals, transitions, direction changes, etc) - achieved February 2017
• Consistently good Walk/Trot test patterns - achieved March 2017
• Good stretchy trot circle - achieved January 2017
• Consistently good stretchy trot circle with transitions in/out - working on it, this item is annoying me because we had what I thought was a consistently good stretchy trot circle and were working to improve transitions, but now thanks to media I've realized that what I thought was a stretch isn't good enough
• Good trot circle with a few strides of lengthen/added impulsion - achieved January 2017
• Consistently good transitions within trot - I've been focused on doing more training test pattern riding, so I haven't worked on lengthened trot recently
• Good canter circle - achieved February 2017
• Consistently good canter circle - achieved June 2017
• Good trot-canter/canter-trot transitions - achieved June 2017 (The Best Ride)
• Consistently good trot-canter/canter-trot transitions - working on it, we've had clearly reproducible good transitions in several rides now, but it hasn't stood the test of a "bad" ride yet
• Good Training test patterns - achieved June 2017
• Consistently good Training test patterns - working on it, we had multiple good tests at the show, but I can't say it's consistent until we accomplish it several times at home too
• Add more strides of lengthened trot - achieved February 2017
• Consistently good lengthened trot diagonals
• Good trot leg yields - achieved February 2017
• Consistently good trot leg yields
• Good canter circle with a few strides of lengthen/added impulsion
• Consistently good transitions within canter
• Good long side of lengthened canter
• Consistently good long side of lengthened canter
• Good First 1 & 2 test patterns
• Consistently good  First 1 & 2 test patterns.

If you've been keeping track you may have noticed that I didn't do one of these in May. May was busy with organizing the show, but it was also a month of breaking things down and building them back up. All of the green items from June have been multiple months (or years) in the making.