My new name: Derek Zoolander.

ARRRGH!!!  Cannot for the LIFE of me do a 100% lovely left hand turn.  I swear, when I finally do it, angels are going to break through the clouds with glorious trumpets and wings and sing hallelujahs.  If they don't, Moe certainly will.  To the right, we're just fine.  Not amazing, but passable.  Sometimes it's lovely, sometimes it's a little discombobulated, but most of the time, they're passable.  A far cry better than where we were 6 months ago, by no stretch of the imagination.  BUT, the left is still back there in the floppy, not responsive, waggy forearm stage.  My leg on that side isn't much better, which is stupid as fuck considering you have to USE your left leg to do a passable right hand turn.  So for some reason, as long as we're going right, my leg and arm on the left work just fine.  As soon as we change direction, it's a train wreck.  Again, ridiculously stupid.

If anything, my right should be stronger (outside rein/leg are your "wall" and "package" aids - you use this to keep them going straight, turning, counter bending, and control how low/high their head is depending on what you're doing, outside leg also keeps them straight, turns, moves haunches & shoulders, and pretty much does 80% of the work) and more steady, since obviously it's the strong side.  But no... we go left and my right side goes all wonky, too.

So what do I decide to do today?  That's right, dressage fans... I decide to work on going left.  Needless to say, it was a mess.  Did I get in a single good turn?  Nope.

*SIGH*

Fairly certain the USEF and USDF aren't going to come out with dressage tests with only right hand turns. 

Here's what I learned today:
- If a black cat walks in front of your horse while you're tracking left, you're still going to do shitty left hand turns like you've been doing.
- If you wear underwear with lace in the leg area, you're going to get chafe marks.
- If you get frustrated and try wagging your arm up and down, it's still not going to do anything (except maybe piss your horse off even more)
And last but not least,
- No matter how angry you get, changing direction and going right, and feeling how awesome it is does NOT make you feel any better about going shittily to the left.

Yeah.  Bad day.