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Emiry


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Update to "Nervous Rider"
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So, those of you from the old disscussions might remember my thread about me being a nervous rider. (My name on barn mice is Emily Walsh, my name here is a nick name)

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http://www.barnmice.com/forum/topics/nervous-rider?xg_source=activity

I have an update to give. So I talked to my instructor and she worked with me A LOT better. It was going pretty good. The one thing I didn't like was how she wasn't consistant in showing up, luckily her fill in is an amazing instructor!(Last week we did hack classes, I struggled with getting my horse into the extended trot,fine with collected and I managed to sit the canter!(Untill I asked for it and my pony picked up the wrong lead...hmm )

BUT today I am starting under a new instructor. I had to get my riding day and time changed due to me needing a day that was NOT monday off, and a later time because I found it hard getting to the barn so I didn't have to speed groom my horse.  Unfortunatly I was unable to get a lesson with the awsome fill in, so I am going to a new instructor, who owns a crazy TBxHano so she understands fear and frustration better! (Well he's not crazy anymore, but he was)
Hopefully It will work better for me!

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Best of luck Emiry (or Emily.. ? haha). Finding the right instructor to fit your learning style can be frustrating. I imagine it would be similar to finding a teacher in school that fits your learning style. Sometimes you just butt heads, even if they are a perfectly fine person! :) Anyway, good luck and positive vibes being sent your way!

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I remember you, Emiry, and the thread! Yes, good luck with the new instructor, finding a good one that works well with each of us is not easy but so worth it when we do. Have some fun, too : )

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Hi Emiry, let us know how the new instructor is! Hope it works out biggrin

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So the new instructor should work better for my personality! The other girl in my lesson is a quiet,shy and low confidence girl, so the whole atmosphere of the lesson is different. It's not strict and rigid, and that you should already be there, and why are you afraid(the two girls I was riding with had no fear!) The barn is less busy as there is only one set of lessons on the go, and I don't have to be ready, and warming up at the time my lesson starts. There is less pressure and push, more go with the flow, which I personally like in my lessons.

It also gives me time to help out at the barn! I can groom my horse early, put him away to eat, then take in the other horses. Then after lessons all that needs to be done is feed!

The best part is I get to ride my favorite horse, the beauty in my picture! I haven't been able to ride him for 5 months due to overlapping lessons!(But because of that, I can now ride, and ride good most horses in the barn).

Unfortunately, he was crazy yesterday.
He attempted to buck me off(I stayed on) but because I didn't correct him well, I knew he was going to throw another fit. So my instructor(new to the barn) hops on him for the second time in her life, and she asks nicely for the trot, a click of the tongue and a little pressure, and he exploded, she fell off. He galloped off, right to the door, where he stopped and waited to be let out...needless to say he got lunged until he learned that when asked to do something it means NOT coming in to the lunger and NOT bucking. He was a doll after that but I think the Dad of the other girl in the lesson got scared and has a bad impression of a usually AMAZING horse(as in, his daughter is never riding that crazy beast). I had never seen him explode like he did, and I rode him, and was the only one riding him on a night for 3 months straight in the spring. I found he'd buck once, try foolishness but once you corrected him once, he would give up and work with you. So yesterday was out of character.
What factors besides for an ill fitting saddle and bridle(we checked the tack first, it was fine, he is ridden in a rubber bit so being harsh with him is hard, and I have fairly light hands anyway), would potentially cause a horse to act up. He also isn't sore or lame anywhere. One of the boarders at the barn, and also leader of our show team said it might have been because he was fresh, with lots of energy around feeding time, so pent up energy+mentality of feeding time=super crazy high energy horse who wants to do NOTHING



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