please just watch this

Ok I have just watched it, I thought it was sweet and i enjoyed it. The girl looks quite young and is obviously very passionate about succeeding with her horses. Nothing wrong with that, good luck to her I say.
 
WandaMare said:
Ok I have just watched it, I thought it was sweet and i enjoyed it. The girl looks quite young and is obviously very passionate about succeeding with her horses. Nothing wrong with that, good luck to her I say.
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Really? Both horses behaving in a way that makes me think they are unhappy/in pain/badly trained, and the girl falling off them reasonably consistently? Not sure I would describe that as sweet.

(I think there are only two horses- there may be more - hard to tell)
 
Im not sure that they are in pain, or badly behaved, they just look inexperienced and not properly backed, and far too green to be able to answer the questions being asked of them. Sad
 
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I thought pretty much the same as you, she seems to be very popular on yt and tbh her horses look to green/not ready. But it seems to be a very popular video????


(My threads always seem to go like this *laughs*)
 
spacefaer said:
Really? Both horses behaving in a way that makes me think they are unhappy/in pain/badly trained, and the girl falling off them reasonably consistently? Not sure I would describe that as sweet.

(I think there are only two horses- there may be more - hard to tell)
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I wasn't so much judging the riding or the horses tbh, it was more her efforts to create a video which conveyed her message of not wanting to give up no matter how often things go wrong which I thought was sweet. Maybe I was being too simplistic.
 
WandaMare said:
I wasn't so much judging the riding or the horses tbh, it was more her efforts to create a video which conveyed her message of not wanting to give up no matter how often things go wrong which I thought was sweet. Maybe I was being too simplistic.
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But I found it very uncomfortable to watch - things were going too wrong too often! I can understand the desire to keep trying, but I wouldn't put such dramatic failure on YouTube......
 
Well thank to you lot she has many more views on her channel lol ;) A shameless post on here to plug her own ego and chances of getting paid sponsorship adverts! If I was admin I would ban her!
 
That was the whiniest most boring video I think I've ever watched! Not that I made it to more than halfway through due to it being so dull and repetitive :(
 
Antw23uk said:
Well thank to you lot she has many more views on her channel lol ;) A shameless post on here to plug her own ego and chances of getting paid sponsorship adverts! If I was admin I would ban her!
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I have just watched it again, and the one which comes on directly after it, which I actually thought was better than this one.

She is obviously a determined and ambitious young rider & using her videos to promote herself. Personally I don't see what's wrong with that, its not easy for young people to get started on a riding career and she is just using the resources available to her. Is it really that shameful? Judging by the remarks under the videos, other people are enjoying them. Am I missing something, is she known on here and disliked for some other reason?
 
Loads of very dull videos seem to get loads of watches on You Tube, thats just the nature of it. Dont see why she'd bother putting this video on, I wouldnt want to show myself falling off all the time. But then if I fell off as often as she seems to I think I would have given up and tried a different sport! Im never sure if these types of people who seem to fall off regularly are just crazy or there's something up with what they're doing, personally Id be questioning my riding ability in a big way if I was regularly eating dust especially if it was off so many different horses. But then everyone has different ideas of what they consider "normal", I find it very odd that a lot of riders seem to think its normal to have refusals quite regularly. Id be horrified if any of my horses refuse a jump, I'd take a step back and re-evaluate what went wrong. I would never just accept it as a normal part of riding...
 
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Oh no, I love Therese honestly. She may have lots of green horses who yes, are probably unsuitable but she isn't stupid and if not all her channel is based around these type of videos. Also, look at her recent success - Cara, she was malnorished and unpredicatble a year ago and now she's winning the 1.20's happy as larry.
 
MagicMelon said:
Loads of very dull videos seem to get loads of watches on You Tube, thats just the nature of it. Dont see why she'd bother putting this video on, I wouldnt want to show myself falling off all the time. But then if I fell off as often as she seems to I think I would have given up and tried a different sport! Im never sure if these types of people who seem to fall off regularly are just crazy or there's something up with what they're doing, personally Id be questioning my riding ability in a big way if I was regularly eating dust especially if it was off so many different horses. But then everyone has different ideas of what they consider "normal", I find it very odd that a lot of riders seem to think its normal to have refusals quite regularly. Id be horrified if any of my horses refuse a jump, I'd take a step back and re-evaluate what went wrong. I would never just accept it as a normal part of riding...
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isn't it because she is riding green horses though, I don't know anything about her. It would be weird if it was just one established horse that she rode that kept refusing, I agree :) but it looks as though she rides a lot of horses, including problem types. We have a trainer near here that gets on all on the difficult ones and gets them going while their rather less confident owners sit trembling from the side lines. I doubt very much that this lady is 'just accepting it as a normal part of riding'. Some of the more schooled horses look to be going very nicely with her.
 
It's not the OP plugging herself, Therese is a Norwegian rider who buys green horses and turns them around.
The video was obviously highlighting the struggles she's had with her current mare Cara. I think she's done a good job with a difficult horse and now competes 1.20s with her in Norway.
It's great that younger riders are getting themselves out there like this, she's doing well for herself with no school, no regular instructor and green horses.
 
I still don't understand why this girl is so disliked, the video isn't that bad, she is only young, is it because you are jealous of her youth :)
 
WandaMare said:
I still don't understand why this girl is so disliked, the video isn't that bad, she is only young, is it because you are jealous of her youth :)
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No-one has said they dislike her. I'm sure she's lovely - but her video is melodramatic bullcrap. I guess I might relate to it if I was an angsty teenager, but I'm not, so it makes my teeth itch.
 
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