Comments | equestrian: Several very varied questions...

arglikeapirate in equestrian

Several very varied questions...

Nov 03, 2009 11:46

Hi guys!

I'm also writing a horse-based novel for my NaNo this year, and have a couple questions for you all ( Read more... )

dressage, creative writing/literature/poetry, olympics

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diaryofaredhead November 3 2009, 17:27:57 UTC

I always rode school ponies showing when I was younger, my first one was at like 6.. We had barn shows and I absolutely loved them so we started going to 4-H shows and local shows.

I had a legitimate aha! moment when I was like 9. I had the HARDEST times with diagonals, I just couldn't do it. I could never tell if I had the right one or not. I could do leads, I could do lead changes... I could not get my diagonal. It just clicked one day. I'd been leasing a horse and I was riding him enough to tell the difference between the right diagonal and the wrong one simply by feeling it and I figured out how to tell and actually be correct from there one out. Everything else I was struggling with sort of clicked and in that like 30 seconds I became like 100x's better of a rider, it was amazing. It all came together, haha.

ally112038 November 3 2009, 19:05:27 UTC

I work for the railway here in England< running trains from the midlands to London St Pancras. My brother is a group station manager for London Underground so between us we are pretty well versed on how things will run for 2012.
If you want to email with any specifics I will do my best to answer although some information is not yet in the public domain. E-mail me at ally112038@aol.com

spazzy444 November 3 2009, 19:10:30 UTC

When I was young I started showing on school horses, then on a pony I leased for 3 years, and then my own. I did eventing. My dad picked a name out of the phone book (seriously) and I trained with her for MANY MANY years until I left for college, and she showed horses, so when I was big enough and good enough I too began showing.

My AHA! moment was actually at a show, I was riding my leased pony who had a tendandcy to run out/stop on/at fences. I was coming up to a jump and I felt his hind shift to the right and thought to myself "that is odd...Oh! Crap he's preparing to run out" gave him a little pop on the rear and pushed his butt with my leg - up and over no prob. I don't think he was ever able to stop/run out with me over a fence again (at least without me knowing ahead of time).

chiere November 3 2009, 19:21:15 UTC

Got involved in my discipline because I was born into it. My mom was the horse crazy teenager, and that didn't change until she was over 50, LOL! She raised Apps and we rode Western and showed Western ( ... )

89rodeogirl November 3 2009, 20:41:25 UTC

I showed ALOT between the time I was 13 and 16. I started with my QH cross and did a few open shows then we did a dressage show that we trained for about 3 months for and ended up winning high point! Then I started showing the arab circuit in the class A shows. I got to do the Egyptian Event in KY in 2005 which was very cool.
My biggest "aha!" moment was about 3 days before I took Champ to the dressage show. We had everything down except for the walk on loose rein, for some reason i could never get him to stretch to the bit. I was waiting for my trainer in my outdoor and Champ and I were just walking around and I realized that if i just lightly pulled my outside rein out and down he would take the bit and stretch beautifully. My trainer got there right after this epiphany and she was so excited because that was the only part she had been worried about.