Words of Wisdom

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Benjamin

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What pearles of wisdom have you learnt over the years and has stuck with you?
And where did you hear/read them?

Ok, these may not be words of wisdom but they have stuck with me.
Mine are:
Mastery is acheived by subtlety, not by abuse
A scruffy rider is an insult to a horse.....

Can you guess where I got them from?

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Still trying to work on it

'Think elegant, be elegant'

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Hmm.......I don't do elegant.....aparently!
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Thank you for your input!
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"Don't let your children ride"

As told to me by my Daddy!
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"The horse stopped with a jerk & the jerk fell off"? Nah? thought not. Ill get my coat
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I recently got reminded by the Spanish husbad of the lady I'm having the classical lessons with that a horse already knows how to do high school movements, it is riders who need to learn how to ask. Damn that man but he's good.
 
Second one probably comes from a few of the ladies at my yard! You know the perfectly dressed, colour co-ordinted ones ie not me!
Can't think of any pearls of wisdom at the moment, its friday and I'm brain dead.
My instructor does always say to me, believe in yourself and stick to your guns which is pretty good advice.
 
"Handsome is as handsome does" Just because a horse/rider etc looks like the stuff of dreams it doesn't mean it will perform like it too.

Old, but true "What's in the brain goes down the rein"
 
Oh hell no, tracky bottoms should be banned except for cold winter nights in your house where nobody can see you they shouldn't be allowed in public!!
I should try harder with the colour co-ordination thing though, I mean sometimes my numnah doesn't even match my bandages tutt tutt
 
Along the same lines:

"Keep hold and keep kicking" - think that might have been Lucinda Green

"Those that mind don't matter, and those that matter don't mind" - that was my mum!
 
Two steps forward and four * back....

*altho feels like a million.

Things may get worest before they get better.

The bestest rider in the world is not the clebs but yourself on your horse, because know one knows and can ride him like you do.
 
If in doubt kick on

Have many many amusing stories which are repeadtedly told to me when I'm jumping by my instructor
 
My instructor said the other day "People say to me that Carl Hestor doesn't noodle* during a test. I tell them no, because he's done his noodling at home"


*'Noodling is his term for asking a horse to soften by wobbling the reins.
 
I worried I might get pulled up on that!

Obviously it comes from behind, we have to get the legs under and forward and straight etc, but yes, we do occasionally wobble Spike's reins to remind him to soften his neck. He likes to keep his nose in the air! Its just a signal to him. I don't keep doing it once he's been reminded.
 
Hummm I wouldn't my self, An outline is when a horse has a comfort zone after all, my lad can hold his with just a lunge rope and bridle/headcollar. When riden i let the horse play with the bit, streching down and long, before collecting. Always asking forward and when he drops I relax the contact as a reward. I do believe some horses *after having one* do just have high head carriage. Guess what i believe. I doubt carl does 'noodling at home' either.
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I see what you're saying, but it's really just asking him to put his head down. I do a lot of long and low and he's definitely getting better, and I do collect him from the long and low outline and relax the contact when he softens but he will sometimes go hollow and I remind him to put his head down with the 'noodling'. If I just went back to long and low every time he put his head up wouldn't he just learn to put his head up when he wanted to avoid contact?
 
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