When I started riding at CEC, I had roughly zero experience with riding horses that anyone in their right mind would consider "hot." I was a pretty timid rider as a child, and anything that moved too quickly was too much for me. As a teenager/young adult, my confidence grew, but I still rarely rode anything overly forward - no longer by choice but simply due to a lack of availability, as more forward and more difficult horses often don't make it into lesson programs at barns where most clients are owners and the focus is hunters. Hello, mud. It's been a while. My third lesson at CEC was my first ride on Izzy, the mare I would eventually go on to half lease, and it was not pleasant. That mare was many people's definition of hot, and she was coming off an extended period of rest following an injury. I had literally no idea what I was doing, and spent most of the lesson fighting tears and trying to get her to calm down, please, and just walk (In a circle. Witho...
I always love wordless Wednesdays because pics are my favorite!
ReplyDeleteRight? Although this maybe was a cop-out, didn't have much to say at all about anything yesterday.
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ReplyDeleteRight? I was trying to do a head over the shoulder shot, and he just kept putting his head on top of mine instead of next to it, and the result is waaaay better than anything I ever planned. Lol
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