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Horse Back Riding is EASY?

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The first is awesome as is the second one. They are both equally true.

A couple of weeks back when I was getting changed for PE a couple of these brats from my class were arguing whether riding is a sport. Like 5 of them were no all you do is sit there and hold pieces of leather/rubber called reins. And then this girl called Abby and me said yes it is. Would a hobby that's not a sport be in the Olympics? I was infuriated by their attitude but then again they belong to the group of people I call

'They care more about their clothes than their marks.'

I totally bore you people to death...

:lol::lol:
 
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Awesome videos! I think people think riding is easy, because everyone makes it look that way. Before I started riding, I didn't think it would be this hard. Now I just have to convince some of my family/friends that riding isn't easy as people make it look to be. Maybe I'll show them these videos! I think that the only way people will ever know how hard it is, is if you put them on a horse..other than a trail ride. ;)
 
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I had to fight my school system to get them to recognize my horseback riding as a sport that could be applied for the PE credit we were required to earn outside of school. If I hadn't been able to convince them, I would have had to join an after school sport and wouldn't have had any time to be with my horses. I was having none of that!!
 
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I had to fight my school system to get them to recognize my horseback riding as a sport that could be applied for the PE credit we were required to earn outside of school. If I hadn't been able to convince them, I would have had to join an after school sport and wouldn't have had any time to be with my horses. I was having none of that!!
How did you managed to convince them? Do you train and show?
 
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oh my god
AMAZING videos!! i actually got goose bumps watching those. i love them both!! but the first one was my fav, which it didnt cut off.

i get in that argument alot with people, and even though i get them to shut up i never actually... win. like they still dont beilive me. they think its cool to watch, fun to do. but its not hard,its not a real sport

haha the one time i was watching show jumping on TV and my dad watched a bit of it. he kept saying, how the horse is doing all the work. that the rider is just sitting there and not working,sure it takes timing, and stide counting,and balence but its not work. the horse is doing all the work. no matter what i said i couldnt convince him otherwise! but as soon as he said it the announcer mentions how the riders have to be in excelent shape to do this sport. all he said was "oh" lol.

same with my mom, if she watches me work with my horse.if he starts sweating or if i ask him to do something, he refuses and says 'no' and we work through it and i get him doing it. suddenly i'm a bad mother and im pushing him to hard. and then she gives him a mint.

i love my parents, and my friends. but there not horse people. they know i love horses and riding,they know its my life. but they dont understand it
 
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haha the one time i was watching show jumping on TV and my dad watched a bit of it. he kept saying, how the horse is doing all the work. that the rider is just sitting there and not working,sure it takes timing, and stide counting,and balence but its not work.
ROFL. I'd like to see him make it all the way around the ring in half-seat at a walk...then we'd be hearing about "work"! :lol:

same with my mom, if she watches me work with my horse.if he starts sweating or if i ask him to do something, he refuses and says 'no' and we work through it and i get him doing it. suddenly i'm a bad mother and im pushing him to hard. and then she gives him a mint.it
Brace yourself. She's going to be *exactly* the same way when (if) you give her grandbabies. Best find a way to deal with that mentally now, or you'll go insane when she's ragging on you because you were too hard on your kid (even if what you were doing was exactly the same thing she did when you were little) and then she'll give the kid a mint, or a toy, or a pony. :lol: The monstrous unfairness of it all can be pretty daunting. :D
 
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These videos are great.

What an astounding lot of rubbish, equestrian sports being "easy". Granted, any idiot can park in a western saddle on a bombproof trail horse and follow someone else along for a couple of hours. Maybe that is what these people were thinking of when they said "easy."

What I know is that I'm a terrific athlete, have been so all my life. I was a competitive swimmer, basketballer, and softballer when I was younger, I picked up figure skating like a breeze, it took me 20 minutes to learn to cross-country ski, yoga was a snap, and when I learned Alpine skiing at age 43, I was riding the black diamonds before the end of my first season. And since I ski in New England, that was mainly skiing on *ice*.

Speaking back from middle age and looking over this vast history of athletic prowess, I have to say that Hunt Seat is hands-down the MOST DIFFICULT sport I have EVER taken up. The demands on coordination, strength, balance, and the ability to react in the split-second to changing conditions - not to mention dealing with whatever mood the horse is in today - make skiing on a field of icy moguls look like a JOKE.

And I'm not even doing any of the really complicated stuff yet...just trotting! Not even cantering, let alone stuff like dressage or jumping!
 
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not gonna lie i could feel myself starting to cry watching the second video
AWESOME videos so true and great points for me to bring up to some ignorant people ;)
 
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