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Re: [RC] Beginners - Cora

Get some dressage lessons from a good source...not a QUEEN....TELL HER OR HIM, WHAT YOU WANT UP FRONT AND STAY THERE..CORA

Adam and Jannelle wrote:

OK, folks, I know several topics for beginners have already been addressed but I think I've got a little different topic here. I'm the wife that had a fantastic New Year's Eve fall and my head was saved by the helmet.

So how do I avoid this again is the long and the short of my question. I'm a strong but overwieght mom of two little young boys and I'm much more conservative riding than I was when I was a kid. I'm comfortable around horses but I just don't feel like a good rider. I mostly stay on but I worry about the times I don't or won't so perhaps this is a mental issue for me? The real reason I feel last week was because the saddle pad slipped behind the girth coming down the steep hills. When we had a big wieght shift because of trying to keep the horse at a trot rather than breaking into a canter, the saddle and myself fell to the left and the horse stepped it up to a gallop and I just couldn't hold onto her neck, hanging off the side at that speed!LOL

I really want to get a couple of completions on LDs this season. I understand why others start at 50s and my horses could certainly go there but I just can't. Not physically nor mentally. In fact, the way I feel about it now is that I'm going to be happy at LDs forever. I'm just not a fast rider nor am I that confident at this point. Perhaps this will change but that's where I'm at.

Any tips about keeping a better seat? And how about posting? I was a western rider as a kid and we never posted. Its a challenge keeping me heels down, butt in the seat and then posting. And do I need to be switching from the left to the right leg on the trot pretty regularly?

Thanks for those who have time to contemplate these questions.

Jannelle, who has a rainbow colored bruise where the saddle horn and I collided.


Jannelle Wilde & Adam Falk
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