Anyone else cried in a lesson?

Yes. I was 10, had only been riding for about a year and had been yelled at by a substitute instructor for cantering too fast. I had not been cantering all that long and he didn't tell me what I could do to slow it down, just yelled at me for being wrong.
Not the best instructor in the world!
I didn't let him see I cried though.
 
YES! Lots of times - sometimes because I'm just exhausted & upset about outside stuff, once or twice because of horrible instructors & a few times because I just felt like the worst rider in the world, but I think we all do from time to time!
 
Oh yes - even quite recently on our own horse( (and I'm 42!) because my OH can be a bit critical and he was watching!
The instructor and I subsequently banned him and things got much better.

Years ago i had a complete shut down - much like a toddler - on a horse that belonged to my friend who owned a riding school. This particular horse was being a hooligan in the school, mainly cos he was part bred Suffolk, didn't know his own strength and hadn't quite found his balance. I'd begged him not to sell the horse on, and offered to ride him more often. I was making progress on the flat, but he'd often take off into a fence, and as he didn't mind who he wiped out in the process, I was getting a bit unpopular with other riders working in the school.
One particular evening, after he'd taken off for about the third time, narrowly missed getting kicked and taken the wing of a show jump out, I just lost it and bawled like a baby.
My wonderful instructor, who is a great friend to this day, suggested I park up to 'compose myself' and got someone to go and fetch a different bridle - a cheltenham gag with two reins.
It was a real turning point - I only had to pick up the gag rein, and he would stop in his tracks, and realise that galloping off was not required. Because we managed to get through to him that he could actually stop, he began to listen, and six months later won a big WH champ.
Lesson learned - probably to ask for help a bit sooner and think outside the box. I still cringe when I think about it though!
 
Yep! I'm another who doesn't cry. I hate crying in front of people and yet anything horsey seems to make me quite emotional! I blubbed at a show with my RI not long ago, blubbed at my first show on Len (first rosette in I have no idea how long) I blub when I hear the fecking Horse of the Year tune.

I'm pathetic. ;)
 
yup- done a few times, not often. had a total breakdown on a hack with my instructor, after cloud took off, i was just so shocked, and relieved. i was just standing there, clinging to her crying. she was just standing there like wtf? another time was when i fell off for the second time in one day at pony camp jumping, when cloud hadnt even done anything. i was sick of being useless at jumping.
and in my lesson, when my instructor was saying perhaps cloud wasnt right for me, i started crying :o cried when i thought i would have to sell her, cried when i found out she had navicular, cried when i though she was going to be pts, and cried when i knew she had a chance.
im noticing a theme here :o
 
Sorry, haven't read all the replies.

Yep in a 2 day clinic with Tim Stockdale! Mind you, he got on my mare after I couldn't get her to go properly and he couldn't get her to go well either so it made me feel much better. When I came out I cried and wasn't going back for the second day as he shouted so much but was glad I did as it sort of "sunk in" over night and had a more productive day 2!!
 
I've cried several times with frustration because I couldn't do something properly and also because of nerves.

Take me away from teh horses and I don't cry at all.:rolleyes:
 
Several times - but then I cry very easily!

Once was years ago when I took my pony to a posh instructor for a lesson. She was usually a naughty girl but that day she just did not want to be ridden! She reared, bucked, napped, leapt and ran off all in the space of 10 min. I was in floods of tears as I had been making a lot of progress with her on the behaviour front and this was very bad, even for her.
 
Some of these stories have nearly made me fall off my chair laughing. It's good to know when you're not the only one who ends up in tears or near to throwing up during a lesson or on a hack through sheer fear or frustration!!!
 
yes yes yes! during lessons, whilst schooling..just out of frustration when I can't do the right thing. Sometimes there are other reasons why I'm upset and riding just really pushes me over the edge!
 
I held things together until the drive home.

I was absolutely NOT getting what a certain well known clinician was trying to teach me. She kept repeating "Imagine your seat is velcro and just peeeeeel it off the saddle" And I kept doing it more and more wrong, jamming my seat down into the saddle as hard as I could. And my mare started bucking in frustration. At the end of the last lesson the clinician said "If you can't figure this out on your own there is no point in bringing this mare back because we're just going to do the same thing"

I replied very tartly that I had already figured THAT out.

I cried all the way home and it took me quite a while to get past it, but I did eventually figure "it" out on my own. Hint:jamming your seat down is about as effective as jamming your heels down

I'll not go back to that clinician again though. If I CAN figure "it" out on my own why would I go back to you?

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Yes, at a XC Clinc in a group of people with a VERY well known FBHS and 4* rider. My horse has a coffin issue, ditches are fine but coffins are a no no. My horse had gone really well, and the last question left to tackle on the course was a coffin. I had told the istructor my horse has coffin issues, and asked if I could do the mini 2' one first, and build up to the bigger one. The instructor said no I had to do the big one straight away. Everybody else jumped it successfully, but when it came to my turn I completly fell to pieces and started howling. Instructor still made me go straight to the big one despite me pleading to do the little one (she told me I was being very silly!). Of course horse stopped 5 strides out, reared straight over backwards, and bolted home, leaving me an even more of a blubbing mess on the floor. Eventually got the horse caught, and me back in the plate. Instructor still made me go straight to the big coffin. Horse wouldn't go forward, kept rearing etc. Eventually instructor admitted defeat.

The next day I took the horse back to the same XC course, popped some little fences, then built up starting with the mini 2' coffin, until by the end of the session we jumped the big one no problems.

Strangely enough I have never used that instructor again. My regular instructor was LIVID at what had happened!
 
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