A loaded spring

It was a chilly night. and it had been a few days since I had done much work with Flash. I decided that I'd just do a little ground work and some lunging to get his feet moving. And feet moving he wanted to do!!! I  could tell he was a loaded spring when we got into the arena... he was quite springy and alert. I was proud how he contained himself and didn't completely forget all his manners and try to run me over or run off or anything like that... but I could tell he was ready to go at the slightest chance. We got into the arena, I did a few ground exercises then went right to lunging. As soon as he got out to the end of the line at energetic walk, I asked for a little trot and he exploded into a trot/roundy canter and let out a huge buck. Then he lunged forward, rounded his back and sorta hopped off all fours and then went blasting forward again. Silly boy!! He wasn't being naughty, he was still respecting the lungeline and me, it was more of a "I have lots of energy and I can't contain it anymore" So he went around a few times kinda wild and then we changed directions and went the other way. After a few minuets he came out of it and settled into a nice trot and put his ear on me and we stopped. I am so thrilled to see him be fired up like this and then know that he will get it out of his system and settle into "listening and ready for my job" fairly quickly!