ByLinia00
Hello ,
I've been riding for a while now and just out of interest I'm asking: Have you ever had any really bad experiences with riding schools or riding lessons and what were they?
(This question is only for people who ride or have ridden)
LG
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I used to be in an RS, the riding instructor preferred the coffee cabinet during the riding hour. She sat more in the corner and counseling instead of taking care of the students. My parents got that back then and they were looking for another riding school where they paid for the lessons and not for the coffee crib.
There I came to an older gentleman, but he was still from the old school. There you learned something!! Chicken alarm, not listening, not following instructions ect was not tolerated there. The well-being of the horse simply had a very high priority and the horse was not a means for the purpose. There were fixed rules that were to be adhered to, they didn’t do that properly. He gave strict lessons, but it was a person of heart from whom one also got praise and he took a lot of time and not only during paid lessons but also outside the saddle. I was lucky to have found such a school. There weren’t much snuck there, just what you needed, but the successes spoke for themselves with all his students!!
But before, everything was different, we weren’t so distorted at that time, appreciated little things and when my parents told me, there was not much to talk about. This was also noticeable in class. Einvin schorfer “legitimate” tone of the teacher did not interfere with my parents. Packed in cotton was simply not. That is exactly why it is often impossible for days of good riding lessons, especially good schools are laying stones in the way. It was only two days ago that I went out because a father didn’t look around the bean that he shouldn’t smoke right next to the hay!! Sometimes you don’t need to wonder when good riding schools die!! This one by the way.
In my childhood, there were still postures and, of course, it was mainly reserved for schoolchildren. That was really awkward, I was very impressed when I came to see how a completely finished and tired horse desperately tried to lay down – which was not due to the tightness and attachment. If the poor animal had actually been laying down at that time, it would probably not have come up any more. I was able to convince my parents that this riding school is no longer in question, so we changed and then landed at a very good farm.
However, what was common to the then riding instructors, also to the good ones, even on many courses I was on – it was bred. And it was demanded. Horse and rider had to deliver, the expectations were different than today, the claim too. Worse was that many pupils left it out on the horse – it was partially locked, for example, as you immediately got a peep when the horse did not go into position within 5 minutes. Mimimi didn’t exist. Who fell down and wasn’t hurt, had to sit down right there. Those who took the jumping hour were canceled for the next jumping hours.
I’m glad that you haven’t been taught so much for my kind of teaching – that’s how you don’t do it. Nevertheless, I must also say indisputably that I have learned a lot and would probably not be where I am today, as a child/younger, I would not have gone through an appropriate school.
My daughter started with four, in a group of parrots, but she stopped after three years or so. I see the riding stable with mixed feelings or the riding instructor. These are not unfamiliar in riding sports (the whole family), all tournaments and trained as teachers. Now I found the teacher ruthlessly. I know this must be her, because a horse is not a toy, and you have to tell him that you have the say, otherwise it does what it wants with one. I also understand, but expecting this enforcing from the very beginning in small children, I found something exaggerated. If, for example, the hoofing didn’t work immediately, because the child might have frightened himself because the horse shoves the leg again, there was no second attempt. Next time again… (like Domina she always came before me). She also liked to be loud and was not crimsonable in dealing with our parents. In the three years, several children stopped there very quickly.
Today, I think, of course, they’ve been looking for new talents with which they can go to tournaments, so from the very beginning on the drill. My daughter then made this less and less fun, because as the teacher always said ‘You don’t ride for fun, fun you can have on the playground’…
So these people may have with their strenge, for my daughter and also for me it was in retrospect a not so beautiful experience. Although she’s learned a lot, I don’t want to say that.
“The horse is not a toy” yes, but the problem is the student and often parents want to make the horse a toy by ignorance. So means for the purpose and if I hear that you have to show who the boss is, it puts my hair up!! The goal of riding schools should be to achieve a harmonious interplay between rider and horse and not “ey I am the boss” a corresponding rig that is appropriate to the age and that of rider is part of it! I don’t want to give the RL completely right now, you’ve written factors that shouldn’t be, but I can also imagine that you and your daughter are no easy case for school. That would be a case where exact details would also be interesting to those of the RL, but no one will ever know here.
Hello, better late than never: We were certainly not exhausting people. As a mother, I almost never had anything to do with horses, and also from the outset I have great respect, and are now also great animals.
My daughter wanted to “just ride” without a certain goal, just like that.
There was no “just like that” on this farm.
I still know there was a girl, already a little older, who has been going on for years and now also on tournaments and stuff. She had somehow got used to the strict way. But you can’t expect that from everyone.
And what I have to say: We parents were just involved. Of course, it is convenient to stand on the edge and think “you’ll teach my child.” But someone like me, for example, who really has great respect, if not even has a certain fear of horses, then let the child on the horse lead himself, because the teacher apparently does not want to run so much himself, is actually irresponsible. More than once, the horse did what it wanted (or did not want) and I was helpless, and she only called any instructions through the hall I could not implement. We don’t want to forget – my daughter wanted to ride and learn how to deal with horses, not me.
Basically, however, it’s just too early with 4… playful handling and sometimes put up in the age ok, more it doesn’t need. Riding is not necessarily dependent on age, a child can also learn as well with 8 or 10. Many children who start so early stop again because it just frustrated them in the long run that they can’t really start with the horse yet.
🤔 What is the background of the question?
Actually, I could do a lot of things here, but honestly, I think it’s much better to focus on the positive, rather than complaining about bad experiences…Whether I try?
in young years:
After my return journey over 20 years later:
By the way: at the moment I am very happy with my riding school. So there is. 👍
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Yes, yes and again yes and since then I no longer go to riding school.
I came to my first riding lesson, I could ride, but I never learned it in a riding school. I was 20 years old, in a saddle for over 10 years and the first thing I got to hear was: “You can’t ride and have no idea of horses at all.”
I came from the free-time Western riding (so no cleaning, cutting or anything else, just ride through the terrain, techniques for going backwards, shoulder herald, but I could still traverse).
Then I was forced into the English saddle of the riding school, which was for me complete new country. At the first moment, I felt really uninhabited, not bad, but I lacked a whole lot of “sattles around me”.
I grabbed the rein, as I have always done in Western riding, with one hand, found the roundabout funny and was yelled at immediately and told me how dangerous this is all I’ve been doing and that you could never have put me on a horse and what a animal torture I am and horses would need the train on the rein.
When I asked why the animal had such a complex apron in the face (hannoveranic foaming, as I meanwhile know) with locking straps and so and for what all this is good, it was only said that the horse, which wants the horse so and I should keep the rein short, this kind of leaning and contacting is important for the animal.
In Western riding, I was used to getting the horse a signal and then performing it until a new signal came. That’s why the school horse and I stopped right after riding, as I didn’t know you were driving more in English, giving more signals and keeping the signal more often. Of course, I’ve been baptized for that.
The fact that the trench was funny for me, should be clear (other saddle, strange horse, new posture, etc.) and it did not look so great in the first round in the hall, for that I was also maulted again.
After 40 minutes, I wanted to take the animal out of the hall, to rip the rein and say the next student would ride the horse. There was no drinking break, no bucket of water, nothing and I thought I’d get the bird out.
In order to train myself in the English riding style, I am then a private farm and asked for private hours there and am therefore very close friends with the owners today. The horse that I can ride there is ridden by me 3x a week under supervision with corrections for a maximum of 45 minutes. The rest of the week has it “free”, so no riding hour or so, can graze, “correctly ridden” by the owner and is absolutely no school horse in the sense.
It has character, is not always easy to act and sometimes says “no” so you learn to get through gently. It is not dead or blunt in the mouth and also not constricted like a rollerbow. I’m not going to continue when I’m not doing something right, and I’m going to be quiet and nice about how I have to do something. This makes it much more pleasant, for humans and animals.
a hannover foam has no locking strap. there is only a sper-belt in the case of trimmings whose reithalfter-kinn-belt runs above the maul gap.
Of course there are straps with it, depending on the model…
And why don’t you look at the riding school before you think about taking lessons? And an info that you’re coming out of the Western ride and – as I understood – the first time with English equipment would not have been so wrong.
Oh, because you might have made an appointment right now because it’s the biggest riding school in the area? Come on, judge someone else…
Oh, yeah, if it’s the biggest riding school in the area, then MUSS’s deaf…
Please look at a hannoversches reithalfter. there’s no strap. hannoversches reithalfter also gives only one model.
the merothic looks similar to him, also looks similar, but just similar, not the same.
I never got the horse I wanted, but always what was right for me.
to once. after that I didn’t want it anymore.
No. I didn’t make any bad experiences. after some lesson you were glad to climb from the horse because it was so exhausting. there was no one lesson where I learned nothing.
Well, not the worst riding school but the worst riding lessons with your own horse :
When I had moved in with my Wallach on a new farm and after I had some problems finding a suitable riding instructor for us (reading Western in a very “English” area), I was very happy that the stable owner was “Westernreittrainerin” – as it turned out later only according to his own statement.
Well, well 30 € per hour “Hofpreis” (For people from outside it would be 35, but also with their own horse)
Hour started, first 20 min still everything good, warming up and loosening work. Then she explained me an exercise and let me introduce this 2x, which didn’t work. Then I should keep practicing them, because she’d have to leave for a second. She actually went easy, I thought she was going to the toilet or something, and I tried the exercise…. To my shame almost another 20 min, in which it has not appeared. Then I got off and I was looking for her first time with a horse on the hand. Horse saddled and taken away, sought on. At some point, I found her in the fodder chamber, where she prepared the fodder for the evening, and I was also rather naughty with the phrase “Oh great, so did she work? ” welcomed. She probably meant the weird exercise I was supposed to do and she never corrected with me.
She was also the last riding lesson.
Stable at Menden?
Nö, in Hesse
Oki
Hello,
I used to be a day child on vacation on a terrible farm.
I was 9 years old, the holidays were allowed from an age of 6 years.
When I arrived, I was greeted by three girls. They were the supervisors. She and we children, I remember so ca. 5-10 more, went into the saddle chamber for the first time and took the trenses for the ponies. Then we followed the supervisor. After about 30 minutes we arrived at the far too small, depleted coupling. A supervisor opened the fence and said we should go in. We children were shown which horse we can take. Not even the names were worth mentioning. I got a totally sweet looking Welsh with my 1,10 m. It felt twice as big as me. I’ve never raced a horse, so I turned to a supervisor. But this meant I’m supposed to make it alone. After feeling 5 hours, another child helped me.
I thought we’d lead the horses to the court. After all, they were totally dirty. But no. A supervisor stood in front of me and asked why I didn’t get up. She made robbers and already I sat on the dirty “Riesen”. I should go after the group. The horse was the typical “I have to be in front. No one can stop me”. We just rode over the street that was, fortunately, empty when he got rid of it like a broken one. And, of course, I clapped completely down ( my whole side was blue) Completely wet and full of panic I was allowed to walk back nicely. But I had to run the horse. Arriving at the court, I wanted someone to call my mother so I could go home. This was done only 3 hours later. So long I sat in the corner and watched the others ride. 2 or 3 others fell down.
That was one of the worst days of my life. The farm itself looked so perfect.
LG
I haven’t been in school for ages, but last time we were standing at a stable with a school shop where I got a few things.
Since I loved the young horse going out in a herd, I asked if he could go to the meadow with some school ponies. So I was also ready to put the ponies on the meadow. Said, but these ponies had to be taken first. I’m sure I won’t let Ponys run around so they’re faster on the meadow. Personally I was able to deal with the ponies, as I can very clearly implement myself, but how to make the little children from school. I saw it from chance. An absolute catastrophe and not harmless for children.
These untypes of horses could also be shown in class, because there was also one or other child jacked evil. I find it quite irresponsibly a child to learn to sit on a horse where it has a 50/50 probability to stay up
About us. Of course, not every 4-year-old child can come up with his own pony or horse.
In our case there was a school pony (the good Fritz) for a total of 6 children within one and a half hours, so for each child a few minutes and for the horse a new child every few minutes. That was always good, everything went along and never fucked or something. But today I’m already wondering (the whole is 8 years ago) whether the poor animal hadn’t just resigned or was calmed or anything else.
Yes, two times.
Once my son (then 5) went to Longenunterricht as always for a year. He got a new pony. Otherwise he rode horses. But he was so easy…
A girl of 15 years lasted the Longe, Pony (Shettymix) turned completely, slipped over with my son at the Longe. Later it came out: both the first long hour of the girl and the pony. Thank you.
Then I wanted to get rid of some of my disorders and take lessons. I was a very advanced rider. Got a completely snalled horse with ties PLUS bumper. I refused to use them. After 45 minutes, the horse could then keep its balance on its own and run a bend. Teurer fun for me to ride a horse correction
Yes I was partially beaten and the horse also… I’d be constantly insulated… the horses hardly get anything to eat
That’s really hard!
Yes and I had so suicidal thoughts and so it was the purest hell
I got into a lesson where the horses were strapped off all shapes and had to ride beginners under Class L department, so with a training course that would be happy if you could ride at the basic pace of the horse. In this operation I have seen people fall from the horse again and again. It wasn’t nice to see. But since I had an interest in buying one of the horses (yes, unfortunately including the health consequences of the runners), I did not immediately take the flight, but only when the horse was bought. With him.
With us in the riding stable, a horse had been injured (I ride there for 8 years and rode the horse 3 years on the piece)
When I wanted to clean it up in the box, a stable helper comes to me (which I still saw here) and says to me: “Why are you cleaning the horse?- It gets dirty again”
The horse has now, fortunately, entered another stable and looks much more happy there. Since that day I have never seen myself in the riding stable
I started riding at a stall where you were supposed to learn western rides and this yard was pretty fucking. The horses were ridden with kandarre riding on a graveyard, some horses were ridden,
Sorry it was too early
The horses were partially ridden even though they were sick and so.
Collisions riding school, rescue service . I don’t want the kids to get dressed. Child complained about pain in the back after overbeating.
The daughter of a friend was left to sit on the grandstand with an arm break after a fall as “Simulantin”… With 12J. The RL even refused to call the mother ://
My old riding teacher has always only telephoned and not taken care of then I flew down once and she hasn’t tasted
I’ve been overrun by the horse