Having lessons in the wind & rain

[sandr]

I'm suppose to be having a lesson tomorrow, but the weather is looking pants

I have emailed my instructor asking if we should do a rain check, its not so much the rain I'm worried about, its the wind.

Would you carry on regardless or rearrange?

Have to also point out the I'm quite nervous as it is, let alone with tree's and farm buildings banging about

 

[MerryMaker]

I thnk when you have a lesson you are concentrating so hard on instructions (and trying to hear them!) you forget the rain, and then your pony generally doesnt take any notice, if that makes sense?! I wouldn't cancel, I mean you wouldn't enter a show then not go cos it was a bit pants. You'll be fine

 

[arwenplusone]

don't cancel - I think it is good to have lessons in these conditions, after all what would you do if you were at a show and the wind got up?

 

[sandr]

OK, going to carry on with it, it would have only been an excuse not to ride

 

[CorvusCorax]

If I waited til it stopped raining and being windy, I'd never ride!

 

[steph21]

Im suposed to be having a lesson tonight but my instructor has cancelled until tomorrow, I would have carried on personally, I think it is meant to be worse in cornwall tomorrow than today!

 

[SamuelWhiskers]

Carry on, you will be pleased when you have done it and will teach ponio to have to work in all conditions!

 

[JoBo]

Yeap always have lessons in the wind and rain, so I also say don’t cancel your lesson, and plus the weather forecastsers sometimes get it wrong!

 

[Jingleballs]

I'd sooner have a lesson in the wind and rain than school on my own in that weather - you end up concentrating so hard on your lesson that you usually forget about the weather - the only problem I find is hearing my instructor over the noise of the wind - I spend half my lesson screaming "WHAT????"!

 

[RachelB]

I wouldn't cancel unless it was pouring with rain or I wasn't able to stay on board upright because of the wind! When it's bad weather I avoid certain places out hacking (open fields etc) but it's an easy hack to my instructor's place and it's sheltered enough. Berlin is a spooky horse though so it also does him good

 

[ddd]

I would go in rain and have it at home in rain and wind but would not risk taking horse out in trailer or horsebox if the wind is really strong, not only because of the worry of me blowing over but somethng getting blown into me, if it is just normal windy go.

 

[lar]

Depends just how bad it is really. I had a lesson this spring on a really filthy night when it was howling a gale and we got caught in a hailstorm, with the result that my pony bolted with me and totally rocked my confidence.