That stereotype post yesterday got me thinking...

[Flicker]

We live in a remote area, so if any visiting instructors deign to grace us with their presence, we are all slavishly grateful and follow their advice to the letter.
But there's always one...
Any of you have the livery who has a nice-ish horse and is a good-ish rider, then insists on booking in for lessons with every visiting instructor going. However, once the lesson commences, they seem to have every reason under the sun why the horse 'just won't' do what the instructor suggests, and instead performs flashy lateral work across the school, or 'accidentally' jumps the 1.20 jump instead of the 65cm grid.
Could it be that the 'lesson' is just an excuse and what she really wants is for visiting instructor to gasp about how wonderful said horse and rider combo are??
Hmmmm.... thinks....

 

[Nailed]

lmfao...

I think you got a bad un there huns!

Lou x

 

[NeedNewHorse]

Ha.. Funny. But no I don't know any of them!

 

[BFG]

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We live in a remote area, so if any visiting instructors deign to grace us with their presence, we are all slavishly grateful and follow their advice to the letter.
But there's always one...
Any of you have the livery who has a nice-ish horse and is a good-ish rider, then insists on booking in for lessons with every visiting instructor going. However, once the lesson commences, they seem to have every reason under the sun why the horse 'just won't' do what the instructor suggests, and instead performs flashy lateral work across the school, or 'accidentally' jumps the 1.20 jump instead of the 65cm grid.
Could it be that the 'lesson' is just an excuse and what she really wants is for visiting instructor to gasp about how wonderful said horse and rider combo are??
Hmmmm.... thinks....

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I know someone just like this, you are not on your own.

 

[Flicker]

Damn, must just be us then.
Still, it is highly amusing, if a little embarrassing...

 

[Flicker]

Relief! Not total isolation then lol!!

 

[Hullabaloo]

Not exactly like this, but I did go to a show jumping clininc with someone who argued the toss at all of the instructor's suggestions of how they could improve.
I definately got the impression they had gone to be told how good they were rather than to learn.

 

[Teagan]

Ooooo - Can I name them - Please - Can I, Can I

!!!!

 

[Flicker]

No Teagan! Naughty girl!

 

[lexibell]

I know a few of these, but will not be naming names

 

[Rudey]

If I had a pound for every person I had come across like this.... lmao

You can't get away from them! Part and parcel of every yard, or club, or clinic, or show....

 

[cyberhorse]

I have seen a couple of those types before...they also like to go around the yard giving "advice" to newbies who then panic that they don't know how to look after their horse properly.

 

[cptrayes]

Had 2 group Riding Club lessons with Geoff Billington once and one of the participants was just like this. Said she only jumped once a year - when he came to teach. Talk about stupid, why go for lessons if you are only going to jump once a year in lessons?

Anyway GB had it summed up - he said to the organiser, loudly enough for her to hear, "she's a nice woman but she's so f***ing stupid!".

Seemed to sum it up for me!