10 Things I Didn't Know 10 Years Ago
(Keep in mind my background was primarily just trail riding, riding western, and working problem horses). :)
1. I had no idea how to ride the correct diagonal
2. Wrapping polos was a major mystery. I am still not fantastic, but at least I mostly get it.
3. The hunter/jumper world. I didn't really understand how jumping could have a style.
4. I didn't know on an English bridle if the cavesson went over or under the cheek pieces.
5. Counting strides. Still not something I can say I can do well, but at least I understand the point of them.
6. How to do basic lateral movements on a horse. The extent of my previous life was a sidepass. Now there are too many buttons to try and address.
7. How to blanket a horse. Seriously. So many questions I had to answer like crossing leg straps, what denier, what type of turnout?
8. The difference between all purpose, dressage, close contact saddles, etc. It was a bit confusing until I actually rode in all of them. Sometimes the light bulb takes a bit to warm up & turn on.
9. Two point was also a foreign concept
10. How or why to clip a bridle path.
So how about you? What things did you not know 10 years, 5 years, or last year?
So how about you? What things did you not know 10 years, 5 years, or last year?
I'm with ya on most of your list. Still can't do lateral movements unless you count a spook - which I don't think I should *snigger*
ReplyDeleteWhy do people clip bridle paths? *blush*
Ps 2, 3, 5, (6), 8 & 9 are still struggle bus unknown to me. So you are well ahead of me in the knowledge stakes ☺
DeleteI learned bridle paths RIGHT Away but in an arab barn, I remember when I had to do a hunter bridle path on a lesson horse my trainer didn't ask how or who I learned from, shaved so much mane off before she remembered I rode arabs.
ReplyDeleteMost of these! I don't blanket my horse or know anything about the English world. I just want to ride for fun, but I am always willing to learn more, given the opportunity!
ReplyDeleteThis would be so hard to do because I don't remember when I learned this stuff... I don't know 2, 3 and 5 even now. I literally just tried two point for the first time last month. I know how to do some of the basic lateral movements, but I have no idea how to teach them which is why I need lessons! As for the differences in the saddles, I know them by sight, but I haven't ridden in them all... This whole list (minus blankets and bridlepaths) could apply to me if I did it for twelve years ago instead of ten, since I started working at the dressage stable twelve years ago that's when I learned all of this lol!! Before that I was like you only knowing western and trail riding. :D Great list!
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how much we realize we don't know. Haha. But if we didn't keep learning, why would we still do it?
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