Suddenly afraid while riding?
Fear of riding
Hello, before I ask the question, some information.
I've been riding for about a year and a half. The lessons are held in groups, and you don't get to choose your own ponies.
For a few months now I have been afraid of riding again and unfortunately I don't know why.
In the first few months I was scared, especially when galloping, but I had mostly put that behind me.
At times, I even looked forward to galloping. I could hardly wait for my riding lesson and was even close to riding twice a week.
But now the fear is back.
On the day of the riding lesson, I already have this uneasy feeling that things will get really bad once we're on the way.
This subsides when you groom and saddle the horse, but comes back when it's time to mount.
Once I've "survived" it, everything returns to normal after a while and I start to enjoy it again.
But when the first ones start galloping again, the panic comes back.
I haven't had any particularly bad experiences; I've even fallen a few times and gotten right back up. It's no problem at all.
But for some reason, I suddenly stiffen and feel panicked. Because of the tension, I'm no longer sitting so calmly in the trot and start to hop slightly.
Then I am suddenly unable to give a canter aid and unfortunately I let the horse more or less run into a canter.
I know that this is neither good for the pony nor for me and after every riding lesson I am ashamed of why I have such problems with it.
Of course I know that theoretically I could get run over and so on and so forth.
I also know that the chance of falling off a horse is “small”, and that I could just as easily fall off a bike and break something.
But no matter how much I remind myself, the panic keeps coming back.
I would love to be able to gallop relaxed and feel that security I used to have and just laugh when I fall off the horse, but I just can't.
I definitely don't want to stop riding, as I've already overcome this fear.
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Really try to relax. I sometimes did. Breathe slowly and again. Just try to remember the good things when riding, what you really enjoy
You don’t have to change stables like any “expert” that says (you always say that at every riding question 😮 💨)
They don’t always say anything about every riding question. It’s not ashamed to make the answers of others so down!
But honestly, if “every expert” is of the same opinion, what could happen, right? Because the experts here are not always in an opinion.
The best remedy for fear is security. And this is obviously not given in the riding school there.
Existing dangers can be neither small nor breathed away.
Strange… so short behind two almost identical questions here…
This riding school doesn’t show up. The idea of riding 2 x instead of once a week is definitely good (if you can afford it), because the routine also loses fear.
Nevertheless, it is a miserable riding school, where beginners often fall down, and where you can run horses in the gallop, instead of teaching the riders reasonable anomalous.
You could just dispense j completely for the first time, and simply open it in the tray until you have it properly under control.
The chance to fall from the horse is not low. Riding is a dangerous sport. You finally sit on a 600kg heavy animal with your own will.
If you’re afraid, always wear a helmet(should you anyway) and a riding armour. This makes you much safer and you may feel safer. Maybe there’s a horse on which you feel safer than on the other, then you can tell your riding instructor that you’d like to ride that.
But if you get out of the horse more often, you’d better find a stable where it’s not. It is not normal to fall from the horse.
Maybe you could talk to your riding teacher about it, maybe she can help you. But if she can’t, I’d change riding school. I started galloping only after 3 years.
you’re in the wrong riding school.
is operated in reputable only if the reitschüler is ready and wants it.
for whip students who have a group hour per week after the longen hours, this is the case after 4 – 5 years. for whip students who have 2x the week a group hour, after about 2 years (from the phase of group hours calculated.
even in single classes, the whiskers do not want to choke earlier.
the safe control of the horse in step and trab, independent riding, the ability to ride over the seat and, of course, a corresponding horse, which does not come into the race even in the case of a washed-out help, but is controlled angalopp, has a uniform, quiet, flat galopp and is brav.
in our rides, however, we also have to get to know how galopp feels.
as I said – you are still completely overwhelmed with the situation – and unfortunately such riding schools as your many people miss the joy of riding.
there is a pretty old, excellent book about the thema, which is well-comprehensible and my guess is so suitable for people from 13 years and adults to read into the thema and question it. the book also makes mut to communication.
it’s from ursula bruns and he says “read without fear?”
Get this and read it.
it empowers you to analyze your situation and communicate with your trainer.
they are not right to spare you the joy of such a beautiful hobby.
just as one question came first, look at the answers