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Ooh, horse thread! I started learning how to ride English style in the fall with my college equestrian team, and it's been a blast. Our instructor prefers not to have us riding on the same horse every lesson since she says that good riding skill means you can ride any horse. I'm inclined to agree with her! There are about 5-7 different horses available for riding with fairly diverse sensitivities/temperaments (the rest of them being other people's horses stabled at the barn or the instructor's personal stallion). My favorite one to ride is a horse named Tego. He's a butt who likes taking things slow, but with enough encouraging he keeps a good constant pace. Tego is usually pretty mellow. The other horses are too, but I've had a couple of instances where one of them refused to cooperate with me... this was the case when I would sometimes ride with a more advanced group and the horse really liked jumping. Too bad he was stuck with me! Currently I just finished walk-trot and may be moving onto stuff like two-point next year. One thing I've found is that yes, thigh strength and strong hip flexors mater. I had pretty stiff ankles when starting out so keeping proper foot position/sinking weight down into the heels was hard, but it's gotten better. I finally got the grasp of it while trotting thanks to a lucky one-on-one lunge line lesson. They're seriously awesome! If I started out with those in the beginning, it would have made things so much more easier. Hopefully I can find some barns giving lessons when I go home for the summer, hopefully English style (but most likely Western). Riding is fun!
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Tyma posted:I swear by these, and I'm slowly converting everyone who hacks out with me to do the same : Supporting buying these; they're great. One benefit is that unlike scarves and such, the material used in Buffs is thin (but still quite warm!) and easy to wash. I'm rather sensitive to the cold and my face freezes easily, so I wear mine in the balaclava style - keeps both my ears and nose warm  . Another benefit is that they look nice! Mine is a blueish pattern.On another note, my lessons started back up earlier this week yaaaay. We got to ride in the outdoor ring for once, so that was fun. I was a little worried I would have forgotten how to ride, but fortunately that wasn't the case. (I did forget some parts of the tacking process, but I never had much experience in that in the first place...) Nondevor fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Oct 2, 2015 |
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Well, today was a new experience! I fell from my horse today. First time that's ever happened to me. The horse I was riding was a new addition to the barn I went to, Dusty. He's a horse that likes a soft rein (or so the instructor said), and he was an absolute dear during the first 3/4 of the lesson. We were doing walk/rising trot [not too advanced  ], and Dusty was trotting fine first time around.The next time though, when I went after the other people in the group, he kept speeding up while I was trying to find my diagonal. So it was a combination of a) not being used to a horse that did that b) had my stirrups a little too high... c) trying to find the right posting rhythm while simultaneously slowing him down. So yeah, the awkward length of the stirrups caused me to lose grip and surprise, there was a jump beam right there! Luckily nothing was hurt (except a somewhat throbbing middle right finger) since I kinda rolled when I landed. Got back right on the horse after since it wasn't a big deal, though I was a little wobbly haha. I feel sorry for the horse! Though he was acting up.
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Oct 7, 2015 00:49
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Tyma posted:Welcome to horses! He did jump, but I decided I'd rather roll off and hit the ground instead of, y'know, landing directly on the beam... Results are in from my x-Ray, and unfortunately I broke my middle finger. I forget the specific names of the regions, but it involves some fractures and none displacement. Fun! Perfect time for all the writing I have to do for my tests, though I'm given specific instructions to not write anything until I see the specialist...
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Oct 7, 2015 04:37
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It's on my right hand too, so now I can't write for the next couple of days. Welcome to horses indeed 
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