Rubbish Lesson

[Jade2007]

Yesterday I had a show jumping rally with Mark Bellinger. Apparently he was a really good show jumper. The lesson was supposed to be 2ft9-3ft3 and I was looking forward to taking Boomer out before Chilham ODE this weekend. We ended up spending an hour jumping 2ft3, and he wasn't even any good! Literally, all he did was tell us what jumps to jump, and that was it. One girl had a strong pony, so all he did was say whoa, whoa, steady, rather than telling her to sit up, half halt etc. afterall, we do all need reminding sometimes! It wasn't too expensive, £12.50 for a group lesson (5 of us) but I was very dissapointed as I'd been looking forward to it for a while

Oh well, that was an hour of my life I'll never get back

 

[kerilli]

i had a really really bad group lesson with... umm, daren't say the name, let's just say a certain top top british event team trainer... years ago. it happens to everyone. you're lucky it didn't cost £40 and wreck your horse...

 

[franki]

I had a rubbish dressage lesson with "top" rider some years ago, cost me £50. What amazed me was, the horse I was riding was behaving very badly, 5 year old with not much experience and she got to a point and said, "I really don't know what you're gong to do with him". That was great help from a pro

 

[Baggybreeches]

I have only had one lesson that left me disappointed, and that was with a Local Show jumper, he basically just put jumps up and said 'Yeah, come again' about 200 times!!!