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RE: [RC] Beginners - Eric Drew

if both you and the saddle went off to the side while riding I'd say you
have two issues: one your girth was way too loose and thats one reason that
the saddle slipped and two: as the others have said take some dressage
lessons to learn your seat

Glad you had a helmet on! [two thumbs up}

--- Eric Drew 
--- eidrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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[Original Message]
From: Adam and Jannelle <mfarm@xxxxxxx>
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 1/4/05 8:32:58 PM
Subject: [RC]   Beginners

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
Menagerie Farm
584 Romie Howard Rd
Yoncalla OR 97499
541-849-2460 (phone & fax)
866-241-1531  Toll-free
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