Ever Feel Like You Can't Ride?!

[Elf On A Shelf]

Do you ever have days where you feel like you just can't ride? Today is one of those days. All 4 of my horses at work too the utter mick today. Lou I don't mind so much as she runs next week so she is allowed to have fun. Champ. Well if your struggling to pull up Champles your not having a good day! Well actually no he can be a keen, numb headed wee toad at times. But today he was being extra special and giving me a hard time. Then Soxy did the same. Honestly. They are obviously feeling very well for themselves but did they really need to pick a day when I am just about bottomed out to be toads!?!

 

[Rumtytum]

It’s a rare day when I feel I can ride

 

[toppedoff]

Feeling like I can't ride should be my full time job!

 

[BSL2]

Been doing it for 50 years, still haven't quite grasped it...

 

[SEL]

Elf - I spent this morning feeling like I couldn't ride a cob. Stick me on fit racehorses and then we'd know for certain

 

[Lady Jane]

Been doing it for 50 years, still haven't quite grasped it...

Same here!

 

[Reacher]

I wish I could ride as well as Elf on a bad day!

 

[thefarsideofthefield]

My trainer used to say that the day you think you've got nothing left to learn is the day you should give up .
Horses , of course , know this , so yours weren't taking the mick , they were furthering your education . They would MUCH rather be well behaved but , hey , it's their duty

 

[Reacher]

PS
Currently I ride even worse than usual as I was on box rest for a few weeks, last autumn, then (due to horse’s (now healed) scraped fetlock) , he was on gardening leave for over 3 months (yes I know that sounds like overkill for a scrape).

Anyway, after building up with some groundwork we started gentle hacks last week and my bum is sore and my legs are like spaghetti. I did join the equipilates course though doing it regularly is a challenge.

 

[criso]

If Elf feels she can't ride then not much hope for the rest of us.

Eta not riding but today Tigger decided he was going to take me skiing towards every patch of grass coming in from the field. Embarrassing being towed at a brisk jog on the end of a leadrope. He looked so affronted when he was told off.

 

[Peglo]

Wish there was days when I felt I could ride my only saving grace is I’m pretty good at clinging on

 

[Time for Tea]

Most days I feel I can’t ride. Just occasionally one of those wonderful days comes along, when I feel I might just be getting the hang of it. Rather than the hanging on! Then it’s gone again.

 

[Clodagh]

I never could ride but my goodness I had a sticky arse in a crisis . Hunting teaches some skills.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Oh trust me going from A to B and B to A in a vague form of control is actually quite easy once the muscles have been built up for it. And I couldn't even do that today

Don't ask me to actually ride a horse in a school properly... I lost that ability long ago!

 

[The Xmas Furry]

I shall come back to this thread tomorrow lunchtime, am booked into my 1st clinic in 6 months, tomorrow morning ...

 

[dottylottie]

when i was younger and loaning i wanted my own horse to ride badly…now, i can in fact ride my own horse badly

 

[poiuytrewq]

Always.
I more notice the few times I think “wow this feels good or right”
Sadly few and far between… once I felt it and really was like “yeah” cantering along, horse spooked, hit the deck in fact he did that twice to me.

 

[Clodagh]

Always.
I more notice the few times I think “wow this feels good or right”
Sadly few and far between… once I felt it and really was like “yeah” cantering along, horse spooked, hit the deck in fact he did that twice to me.

Great levellers, horses

 

[Barton Bounty]

Oh trust me going from A to B and B to A in a vague form of control is actually quite easy once the muscles have been built up for it. And I couldn't even do that today

Don't ask me to actually ride a horse in a school properly... I lost that ability long ago!

i like going fast

 

[Clodagh]

My mum says ‘any fool can gallop a horse’. Me, I’m not so sure

 

[poiuytrewq]

Great levellers, horses

Sure are! Luckily as he sailed out the gate and galloped up the road some guy walking his dog rather heroically I thought lept in front of him, caught him and legged me back up. Super impressed at someone diving in front of a galloping 16.3 TB! He told me he worked at a racing yard! Imagine the chances!

 

[Barton Bounty]

I remember having a 17.2 grey gelding on loan called Lucky. We hacked everywhere and decided to go to the beach which was 1 mile away. Cantering along and all of a sudden I hit the deck… lucky spooked at seaweed and down I went out the side door! I was 17 so I bounced quite well but getting back on was the challenge

 

[Mrs G]

I had this last weekend when my novice 11 yr old niece rode my 16.1hh TB. I’ve had him 11 years (she was a month old when I got him). She’s been riding at a riding school once a week for 18 months. She was sat on him 20 mins and was doing a lovely job trotting him over poles - he’s all relaxed and really striding out. I get on the next day and he went like a giraffe with an anxiety disorder!

 

[MiLeTa]

More often than not! And when I do have times thinking that I can, my horse is usually more than happy to swiftly disabuse me of the notion

 

[smolmaus]

Halfway down the road today I genuinely thought to myself "I wish I was on a lead rein rn" then we turned around and went home

 

[Caol Ila]

Do you ever have days where you feel like you just can't ride?

Every day.

 

[Barton Bounty]

I feel like I am a bronking , rearing, spinning and beware of last minute detours expert now but dont ask me to do 1/2 hour lesson lol

 

[Hepsibah]

First ride out this year yesterday and got caught up in a bush on the way out of the field so yes.

 

[OrangeAndLemon]

My last instructor told me that I actually ride very well. I understand the correct use of the aids and the outcomes of using them. I always make the right decision but....

I overthink everything, assume the question is more complicated than it is so don't do what I should.

So if I could switch my brain off, I'd be a much better rider

 

[gallopingby]

But it’s spring or supposed to be if it would stop raining and / or blowing a gale. Horses are always a bit bonkers at this time of the year - full of the joys of spring my mother would say - so whether you can ride or not look forwards to some excitement or maybe just enjoy the flying lesson?