FAO SpottedCat... more numbers!

[Bounty]

On the same theme as the discussion the other day about the number of repetitions needed to leard something.....

Been thumbing through 'Dressage with Kyra' and saw that she had a set of numbers too - according to Kyra it takes 100,000 repetitions for the body to learn a new movement/position. If the position is wrong it can take upto 2,000 repetitions just to break the habit, and then possibly (dependent on how severe the problem is!) another 100,000 repetitions for the new pattern to become a reflex.

Scary stuff! Thought it may interest you

 

[PaddyMonty]

Think I'll give up now. I dont have enough riding years left to sort out my problems

 

[crabbymare]

Well thats me finished then! !

No way will I ever get rid of my habits so I will just have to stay as I am

 

[SpottedCat]

This merely adds to my paralysis by analysis style of dressage training...

Does not suprise me though...it is so HARD to ride flatwork well! how can jumping XC be so easy and riding a 20m circle so hard?! All wrong....

 

[Bounty]

Nothing in life makes sense anyway!
How can jumping unmentionable things out hunting/XC be so 'right', yet the sight of a course of SJ's send cold shivers down my spine?! The SJs collapse FFS!