Festive_Felicitations
Well-Known Member
Following the current theme in NL and here...
My worst, and it really annoyed and offended me was:
'You ride very long, its not safe, and your riding really scares me'
This was at the end of a HT on a very windy day in which 6 people (not me) had fallen off, and about 1/3 had been elim or retiered half way round. I had had an interesting round as Beau had was in stop-start-leap-shy mode BUT I sat it all and got over all the fences in a fairly rational manner. Yes I was riding slightly longer than everyone else but I needed to, to have enough leg round Beau to stay with his abrupt changes in direction and momentum. But what really got me was where did the lady who was organising it, who I know doesn't jump and isn't an instructor or in anyway related to me, get off telling me I looked dangerous??? GAH!
The comment was made as I returned my clipboard after I had just spent 1 hr sitting in a drizzel jump judging after I'd ridden my rounds. Well it was the last blxxdy time I helped out!
Sorry that one has been bugging me for a while!
The best:
'Wow your sitting trot work is really good! You barely move'. - I failed to mention that I was riding a mare who was so smooth you got a bad back rising as you had to do all the work yourself as she didn't 'bounce you up' at all!!
My worst, and it really annoyed and offended me was:
'You ride very long, its not safe, and your riding really scares me'
This was at the end of a HT on a very windy day in which 6 people (not me) had fallen off, and about 1/3 had been elim or retiered half way round. I had had an interesting round as Beau had was in stop-start-leap-shy mode BUT I sat it all and got over all the fences in a fairly rational manner. Yes I was riding slightly longer than everyone else but I needed to, to have enough leg round Beau to stay with his abrupt changes in direction and momentum. But what really got me was where did the lady who was organising it, who I know doesn't jump and isn't an instructor or in anyway related to me, get off telling me I looked dangerous??? GAH!
The comment was made as I returned my clipboard after I had just spent 1 hr sitting in a drizzel jump judging after I'd ridden my rounds. Well it was the last blxxdy time I helped out!
Sorry that one has been bugging me for a while!
The best:
'Wow your sitting trot work is really good! You barely move'. - I failed to mention that I was riding a mare who was so smooth you got a bad back rising as you had to do all the work yourself as she didn't 'bounce you up' at all!!