Horseriding lessons
Well, it has taken me fully a year and a half, but I have finally started riding lessons again. I went to a place near Frankston on Sunday. The private lessons are 45 minutes for 45 dollars, with an EFA acredited instructor. I liked my instructor and I liked the horse they had me ride. A black 15.3 hand clydesdale x american paint horse called Ernie. I bet he got his coat colour from the paint side, and his markings from the clydesdale side. He was solid without being heavy, and had lovely gaits, especially his canter. One of those gem horses that does what he's told without being too lazy or too high strung, and hasn't been ruined by bad riders. Worth his weight in gold.
As always, I have to start learning from scratch in the style this instructor teaches. That's ok. It is a challenge to leave what you know behind and learn in a new way. It keeps me thinking while I'm riding. That's why I prefer lessons to trail rides. But sometimes you just want to go for a trail ride too, and enjoy the greater outdoors beyond the arena, and just spending time with a horse instead of working with one.
Well, I have another lesson booked for a fortnight. I would go this weekend, but they have no spaces free at other times and I am already busy with something else at that time.
I might try to get to some other places too, to try them out. This place is an hours drive away when the traffic is good. It would be great to find somewhere closer, that sill had comparable rates. But the most important thing is that I like the instructor.
As always, I have to start learning from scratch in the style this instructor teaches. That's ok. It is a challenge to leave what you know behind and learn in a new way. It keeps me thinking while I'm riding. That's why I prefer lessons to trail rides. But sometimes you just want to go for a trail ride too, and enjoy the greater outdoors beyond the arena, and just spending time with a horse instead of working with one.
Well, I have another lesson booked for a fortnight. I would go this weekend, but they have no spaces free at other times and I am already busy with something else at that time.
I might try to get to some other places too, to try them out. This place is an hours drive away when the traffic is good. It would be great to find somewhere closer, that sill had comparable rates. But the most important thing is that I like the instructor.