[RC] Sarah Arty & Sugar- Newbie Issue - Trakehners2000
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In a message dated 2/11/2006 1:20:34 A.M. Central Standard Time,
patchworkfarmshorsestuff@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I
hope this makes sense as to what im saying. That I think LD's are
important. I dont care if you treat me like im a newbie..
Heck I am, but if you treat me Like im
stupid, and riding a ride thats nothing, Im not going to stay in the
sport, but if you treat me with respect and help me and let
me know I rode a good ride or could have changed some things but still am part of
the endurance world, im gonna stay and move up and hopefully one day
be a seasoned rider helping out a LD person and remember where I
have been and how I got there.
Sarah,
Arty and Sugar Abbotsford BC Canada
PS, Got any training tips
for a newbie.. LOL
Sarah,
I totally agree with you and am in the
same situation as you are. With how this thread
has turned ( and I am
starting to wonder if the
vehement people really know how it sounds)
I am discouraged too, and can't help but
be aware of how ironic it is that people in other sports often think of
dressage riders as snobbish. and yet, they are not, they at least
consider every dressage horse at every level to be a dressage horse.
I join the United States Dressage Federation & Illinois Dressage &
Combined Training Association, and I go to dressage schooling shows with
my horse, and NO ONE in the dressage community has a fit, because I
say I am doing dressage with my horse. Not
even my trainer, who is training towards the Olympics. It is
a no problem, we belong to dressage associations, because we
are training dressage with our horse, and because we are
interested in, studying and showing dressage with our
horse. And dressage riders are generally very enthusiastic
about others and their training.
Yet we belong
to an Endurance association, and yet we are not in the sport of
endurance?
It IS discouraging to be coming into a new
sport, paying dues into the associations, (AERC,UMECRA) THINKING that you
are training your horse in endurance, because we are interested in,
studying and competing in (what we
thought to be) the sport new to us, called endurance
and to be told, you are not, actually, in the
sport of endurance- nor will you ever be, unless & until you do a 50
or more. You only belong to the Endurance
association, God knows why, because you should belong to
the Limited Distance Riders Association, BECAUSE you are not ACTUALLY in
the sport of Endurance, you are in a TOTALLY different sport
called Limited Distance. SO maybe we should belong to
the American Limited Distance Riders Conference, or the Upper
Midwest Limited Distance Riders Association?
It is just too ridiculous that
we pay into organizations that are called endurance
associations, yet we yelled at / flamed if we
refer to what we do with our horses as endurance, (*which by
the way is quite shocking and insulting when you do not realize
the apparent *taboo* of it all- it is one heck of a slap in the
face/welcome to the sport...which several dozen people do not yet
realize.) I guess what all the vehement people are saying is
that we are like barrel racers belonging to the roping horse
association? Vehement people, take a serious time out to think
about how you are coming across to all us 'NEW' people, or maybe now, we
should not even consider ourselves new? Maybe that only comes when
we are NEW to endurance, which, how can we be when we are not even in THAT
sport yet, we only belong to the association...maybe we are just the
idiots flipping the bill... sorry to get ticked off about it...I
have had it up to my ears with the BS, and the snobbery of it
all. You all should sit back and realize how freaking
ridiculous it is for those new coming into what ever the sport
of ________ you want to call it.
