Ride Right
If there a 95% chance your horse is going to be weak at something, what are the chances of riding that thing helpfully? Am I stuck in neutral by being practiced at theory. For lots of us well meaning riders, striving to ride well in the kindest way there’s an incentive to check, are we riding against our horses as we ride “correctly”? This is usually where I get the ride for fun argument, for me, the opposite of productive riding isn't " fun" riding it's unproductive riding. I find fun in trying to be better. Repeating though the question, if there’s a chance my horse is struggling and going to need to explore getting it wrong, and my way to ride it right purely based off theory, is that helpful to my horse in that moment? Learning your horse isn’t always easy, I was of the era where everything was desperately trying to change and tidy up. Less time for messy equestrianism and lots of ‘ look to the rider first” As a concept I applaud it but mostly it trained myself a...
