Comments | bad_riding: It's Summer Vacation & I'm Already Bored.

lifeishorses in bad_riding

It's Summer Vacation & I'm Already Bored.

Jun 28, 2012 19:30

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re_vised June 29 2012, 00:43:33 UTC

The first horses neck looks so weird. Maybe it's just the angle of the photo.

I feel bad for the horse in the last video, just getting rammed in the mouth over and over... Jesus.

ernestinewalker June 29 2012, 01:05:43 UTC

Judging by the windshield-wiper legs on the last rider at a canter... just, damn. I don't think I can finish that sentence. There's a lot of luck, and that horse being a damn good packer.

labradors June 29 2012, 01:24:11 UTC

I'd name that packer Honey Badger!

wastedrock June 30 2012, 00:44:23 UTC

Comment WIN.
I love Honey Badger lesson horses lol.

harnessphoto June 29 2012, 01:44:08 UTC

The first rider is wearing a helmet. The horse is wearing a kind bit and she's not in his mouth. Her leg is solid. I wish she had nice jumps and I'm sort of cringing at the chafing she must experience, but eh.

I've seen a lot of 'great hunters' like that. What gives? LOL. That kid needs to go back to riding without stirrups.

The girl falling off at the show was scary to watch. Holy out of control!!! Speed is one thing, but this is why all horses should school dressage through training level. a little balance would go a long way.

LOL to the gray pony on the hill.

Gee I wonder why that horse rears.

and look... more people who shouldn't be jumping.

I think that's all of it. Ha ha.

midnightsecret June 29 2012, 02:48:16 UTC

Yep, pretty much this.

lifeishorses June 29 2012, 03:09:00 UTC

Ugh. I've ridden that 'great hunter' (the horse in my profile pic, actually). She's decent on the flat, but she has 0 motivation to jump. just kind of flops over if you convince her it's too much work to refuse.
She's not going to move up much past 2'9" anyway, she's as long as a train car.

harnessphoto June 29 2012, 10:41:18 UTC

Yup... and yet people show them and market them and give local hunters a bad name. My horse jumps like that, but he's an endurance horse (and a standardbred) so he's excused.

megfuzzle June 29 2012, 13:28:51 UTC

at least the bridle is on not-backwards? Which I think we've seen in this forum at LEAST once.

ninjafingers June 29 2012, 16:52:17 UTC

Okay, well, I do see something right in the first picture: A helmet ( ... )

lunatteo June 29 2012, 19:54:44 UTC

Interesting... I thought it was a quirt, but after looking them up there is a difference between the two. But heck, like that rocketing little orange horse -needs- the incentive. In fact I'd back him up and work on slowing him down, getting in tight so he rounds and jumps more up than out. He's jumping so flat he's liable too (and did) take rails down like that. Yet this video reminds me all too much of a gal I grew up riding with who fancied herself and her horse a jumper. And really, every round went only tad better than that one.

ninjafingers June 30 2012, 18:49:38 UTC

It's a kind of quirt, but a regular quirt is a lot shorter than an over-under. I only know because I've used one.

But yeah. That horse totally doesn't need one.