avthechav
Well-Known Member
I would class myself as fairly experienced but completely incompetent!
I can sit to any size trot - my seat doesn't move. It's the rest of me - like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8WyOXhJ3uk
difficult to know what you would class as novice, intermediate, experienced etc. I have been riding for 20years and brought on several youngsters/green horses, hunted, SJ, HT,DR etc but not at a high affiliated level...I would probably class myself as an Intermediate.
I was good rider during my childhood and teens. Show jumped up to a good level and passed my BHSAI when I was in my early twenties.
However, I am now in my mid 40's and I'm now really quite an ineffective, wobbly and weak rider :-(
I tend to stick to hacking quietly round the block and looking after my neddies on the floor now which is a shame really as I miss those days!
If we accept that horses continue to teach us and that we never know it all ...... doesn't that make us ALL novices in a way, just at different levels?
Crap but enthusiastic
Well, frankly, Willy FP's got nothing on me.