Learn to ride?
Hello, I started riding last January. It's always been my dream, and I love riding.
Unfortunately, my riding instructor didn't have many appointments for me. At first, I had the feeling that he didn't think I was confident enough to ride, and after the lessons he always asked me if I wanted to come back. I was always really nervous because I think highly of him and didn't know if I could live up to it. He generally has a charisma that can be a bit intimidating. In total, we had about 23 riding lessons last year. Things often came up (one of us was sick, on vacation, or he didn't have any appointments). At first, we only did ground training. I'm currently learning to trot, guide, etc. So, even though I've been doing it for a year, I wonder if it suits me or if I'm just being stupid and don't realize it. I didn't have many lessons, but I wonder if it's normal for it to take so long. I was very clumsy on rides. Lunging wasn't easy for me either because the horse always came to me at the beginning. Sometimes the horse does what it wants, and then I try, somewhat desperately or clumsily, to remember how to proceed. You have to pay attention to the detailed cues, and on the ride, for example, it didn't go as smoothly as hoped, although things improved in the arena.
Is this normal? 🙈
Thank you in advance.
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23 hours, with breaks, and also some groundwork and longing? You’re already riding out? You don’t have to wonder that you haven’t learned much yet. From the very beginning, you get a lot of tasks, and with the breaks you have no chance to remember anything.
“Talent” are the 10 percent that allow someone to climb the world’s top. Why do you care what is “normal”? Either you want to ride and stay on it or not. If you want to compare yourself with others, you can do this later on tournaments if you have money for it.
At the moment, I would just recommend you to stop this riding instructor. Instead of this or at least in addition another way to learn what. Put a longing badge down so that you’re fully focused on one thing for a week and learn it right.
But on the topic “normal”:
You seem to be just a gap filler in this riding school, and in this position it takes forever to learn what. It’s not bad – I didn’t feel better at that time. I had learned to ride as well as not at all classes, but mainly autodidactical, and I certainly found myself on the floor for over 100 times until I had learned to somehow join the horses. And then, at some point, I thought I was completely intact.
“Easy” (in my eyes truly harmonious) I have actually learned riding only after my re-entry in a quite good riding school. In the meantime, minus the interruptions, I had spent about 15 years in horse stables.
Nevertheless, the head of the course I finally attended has not been able to stop praiseing my “feeling”. And feeling is finally what has priority in the Scala of training the rider beside all other points.
All right, all right. No, it’s not “end”. 😉
Anyway, I don’t care if others learn better, faster, easier. If you really want, you can create it with a lot of patience even under adverse conditions at some point.
However, most of them give up as soon as they realize that they can neither with film fantasies (east wind and co) nor with the pace of learning richly held super talents. Possibly the riding instructor asks again and again whether you want to continue. You may not really make a happy impression because you are too much struggling with your “mistake”.
“The path is the goal.” You get on with this attitude alone! sometimes very slow, (sometimes you get on the spot) but surely.
you don’t ride long.23 hours are NOTHING. Riding is the hardest “sport” there is, a life is not enough to learn riding. Ask the question in 10 Jahn again.
Well, I know how you mean. Sounds pretty confusing and discouraging 😉
I would not dare to compare whether it is the “most difficult sport”. I would find it harder for my part to meet the goal at football or even jump down a ski hill. And with almost everything you do, you can develop for life. I would say, however, that one can speak of rudimentary “traits” if one is able to move on a good horse in the desired gear in the desired direction. And as a rule, a few years of ordinary lessons are enough.
that’s true. Sure, at world level, in all sports there are very few. But I think you learn to ski faster, football games, swimming etc. at a good leisure level than riding at a good leisure level.
I think about Eddie the Eagle… It was of course extremely courageous and tough, and so after a year of practice he was able to jump from the great ski jumping hill without coming to life.
The effort to learn riding is significantly higher than you think.
100 to 150 riding hours are required for absolute basic assets.
you say something right. Riding is now the hardest sport there is.
I like cycling. Just now the Vuelta. Again and again cross-comers take part successfully. Remco Evenepoel, the current double Olympic champion, was a successful football player, Roglic, one of the best cycling professionals in the world a few years ago. So what would be completely impossible when riding. Also a Tadej Pogacar, the absolute number 1 in cycling, could not succeed after 2 years.