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Thomas james hayman
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posted 06-17-2005 03:38 PM
    
Having finally found a riding school, i am to start lessons in a few weeks (fiiinally). Does anyone have any tips for the complete beginner? i've been on a horse twice before now, both times reins being held by another person. any help on typical beginners mistakes would be helpful, thanks. Thomas. -------------------- The allotment spot
http://tomsallotment.blogspot.com/
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Gwen
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posted 06-17-2005 08:14 PM
Relax and listen to the instructor.Do not clench your butt muscles, it doesn't help you stay on and communicates your anxiety directly to the horse. If the instructor shouts at you find another instructor. Good luck and have fun. If you were here I'd let you shovel manure in exchange for lessons.  Gwen
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Seigneur de Leon
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posted 06-18-2005 06:30 AM
The reins are not handlebars!!! Do not balance your body off of the horse's mouth. Balance your body by keeping your heels down, imagining a line from the top of your head down to your heels, and move with the horse, front-to-back (like having sex) as well as from right to left, as the horse's movements will be to one side, then to the other, not straight. But you should still move your torso seperate from your pelvic area. You can speed up the horse, or change gaits, from exaggerating this motion.
To slow the horse down, lean back. If you squeeze the horse from its sides while leaning forward you put yourself out of balance while telling it to speed up.Once you get the body movement to match the horse, work on your hands, which should also move back and forth with the horse's gait. Until you learn this technique, you are better off hanging your hands on the saddle cantle, rather than jerking on the horse's mouth. On the ground, start to pay attention to the horse's body language. If it looks at you with both eyes, it is paying attention. If it is only using one eye, then the second eye is probably looking for an escape. Ears pinned back means aggression. A horse "shouldering" into you or stepping on your feet has no respect for you. When leading a horse, it should be eye to your shoulder. If it gets ahead, then it is leading you, and then you should look to my previous statement. Horses can learn a few human words and cues, but it is up to us to learn their language first, then talk to them in a way they will understand. Good luck, and welcome to "nobility"!  [ 06-18-2005: Message edited by: Seigneur de Leon ] -------------------- VERITAS IN INTIMO
VIRES IN LACERTU
SIMPLICITAS IN EXPRESSO
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Angelique
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posted 06-18-2005 03:38 PM
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If the instructor shouts at you find another instructor.
Quite true, unless you are a dressage masochist who is used to heavily accented German men howling "American jellylegs! How do ever expect to get a proper extended trot with schwung???? Put up that horse and go to the gym, you are wasting my time!" Yes, I'm a dressage masochist, lol -------------------- Dahlin', this can't be real emergency, I only brought one bottle of bourbon and one bottle of Tabasco...
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Fire Stryker
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posted 06-18-2005 10:29 PM
Take it slow and listen to the instructor. If you have long term goals that you wish to achieve, communicate them to your instructor so that they create a plan that will help you achieve them. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither is a good equestrian. Good luck. Jenn -------------------- ad finem fidelis
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Steenie
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posted 07-28-2006 05:30 PM
Tips are translated as gimmicks.There are no tips nor gimmicks that can help u on here. To ride a horse in any clasic form is that classic. There are no short cuts Just hard work dedication and the need to make it so. Get on a horse over and over and over and over then say, Help! Then get on a horse and get on a horse and get on a horse with good tuition. To ride a horse is not a quick fix it is a spiritual experience that will only happen when u let it. -------------------- Der seig wird unser sein
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Steenie
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posted 07-28-2006 05:38 PM
My last posting may seem a bit sad lolI didnt mean it that way All I am saying is, that to ride a horse should be enjoyable experience and should be the reason to do it not the path to something else.
If you are doing it to do jousting you have lost the plot. You should be doing it for the love of the horse and the lust to be right in the saddle
If you have that mind set and then you want to joust etc then you are following the route of our fore fathers who did joust. If your intention is to do horses on a quick path to get to the joust it will be a painful experience. Just my thoughts on this. -------------------- Der seig wird unser sein
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