Learning to ride?

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How long do you think it would take a complete beginner adult to learn to ride and be competent in walk, trot and canter?
 
Depends on how they are being taught. My partner has just started to learn on my mare and is a complete beginner. He is having a half hour private lesson every other week and practices about twice a week. He's been riding now for about a month and has just got the hang of rising trot (in balance) and has started to learn how to move around the school. I would say give him another couple of months and he'll be competant in walk, trot and canter.
 
I taught my Oh when we got beau, he couldnt ride at all.

He did 1 hour on a Sat and one hour every other Sunday.

I would say after 6 weeks, so probably about 10hrs worth of lessons, he was walk, trotting, cantering and galoping out alone in open spaces.

And he was a very nervous rider.
 
Ride and be compentant in walk and trot usually takes about 4 lessons in my experience. It is the step to canter that takes a while and very much depends on fitness, confidence and natural balance. But I think it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 lessons to be able to start thinking about 'controling' a horse in canter and not just sitting up there and praying
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My BF is learning to ride, he mastered the rising trot after 2 lessons and was 'confident' on his own on a safe horse after 4 lessons. He has cantered a couple of times (once on the lunge, once 'by accident') and is very very wobbly. I think the canter will take him a while.
 
It depends what you call competant really.

Being able to sit on a horse and steer in those paces, a couple of months. Being balanced and in control at all times, with an independent seat and hands, an awful lot longer.
 
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