It seems I find myself wanting to blog only when things with my riding aren’t going well, I wonder why that is… In truth it’s not that my riding is going poorly it’s just that I’m really hard on myself when something doesn’t go the way I think it should. Let me explain. I have goals within my sport of dressage and in order to reach those goals I lesson twice a week with a very good trainer, I ride 5 to 6 days a week, and I attend clinics with highly experienced clinicians. I put a lot of time and effort into having fun but still wanting to reach my goals with my horse.
I recently went to clinic that a highly experienced and respected clinician was giving. During my 45 mins with this clinician I went from feeling “wow I really do know what I’m doing” to “I am just a shit rider.” Granted we (my horse and I) are at that point of moving up a level so moves are getting more difficult but geez how can we go from feeling like we are on cloud 9 to being in the muck bucket in such a short time.
The sitting trot is probably the biggest obstacle I have at the moment to overcome. Well there’s certainly others but I’ll save those for later. I’ve only been riding really seriously for about 5 years. I got more serious when I bought Aldo who had experience and I thought I could catch up (could be another blog post). It’s so hard to remember that the great riders also sucked at one point in their training journey. I have found that if I really push myself and put my all into every ride it does get easier, a little anyway.