learn to ride a horse

I learnt to ride a horse when I was about 12 or 13, I got good enough to canter but now I want to learn to gallop

ive been riding horses 4 about three years now but im always curious 2 learn new things about horseman ship. i love horses i have two of my own and i wouldent trade them 4 nothing.

Haven’t riden a horse in a while but it’s like a bike. My Aunt has horses and when I go to visit I get and it’s like I never stopped. I can’t afford to ride at the moment.

I am taking English riding lessons at an eventing stable about 15 minutes out of Fort Worth, and I am taking Western lessons with a super-nice lady that I met online. She also offers internships and online classes…so I will probably do something like that pretty soon…

when we were in denmark she took me and my sister horsebackriding. I’ve never sat on a horse before but it was so cool :D it was so much fun and I’m not perfect at riding yet of course but I feel like I know the basics so I’m just gonna mark this as done. :):)

I told her we’ll go and learn to ride a horse. I told her we’ll go and take dance lessons. I told her I’ll always be a good listener. I told her I would remain a romantic guy for the rest of the time. I told her many. Now it’s too late.

I’ve taken 2-3 riding lessons, but the nearest stable is a 30-40 minute drive.

I love horses and want to become a good rider. I’d like to go riding often.

i rode a horse once at a summer camp when i was a kid. at the time i didn’t appreciate the experience much, but in more recent years, as an adult, i’ve become interested in the idea of getting on a horse again. i’m pretty sure that this is because i like watching westerns on TV and in movies. there seems to be something really special about the relationship between a rider and his/her horse.

So today my trainer said I would try for the first time to gallop alone, with no help. And he told me to switch to another horse. I wasn’t very thrilled about that because I never rode that horse and I really didn’t want to go about figuring out all over again how hard I need to press my heels to get it to move and stuff, especially not when I’m galloping by myself for the first time. But I said OK.

So as I was preparing the horse, he told me to be a little gentler than with the horse I rode by then. Like that would be a problem.

So I sit on the horse and he tells me to throw away the whip. And I was like what?! I can’t get the horse to move without a whip and now they want me to throw it away?! But OK, I suppose he knows what he’s doing. So he said go.

And BOOM! I barely used my legs and the horse was already trotting. I was like WTF? Soon enough the horse was galloping and I was thinking about whether or not I should scream “HOW DO YOU STOP THIS THING?!” But then I remembered how. So I stopped it for a moment and the trainer said I should try and stand up from the saddle while galloping, into a half-sitting gallop.

I was like yeah whatever; I mean, that’s the least of my troubles! My old horse is like a massive boulder – I push, pull and huff and puff and whatnot and barely get it to trot, although it’s still a kind of a lazy trot so I need to also use the whip to wake it up. This one’s a freaking bullet – I just need to pull the trigger and BANG I’m supersonic! Like there’s no speeds between zero and 400 kph. I was nearly shocked by this change and all the trainer had to say about it was “stand up from the saddle”. Like – yeah – and the fact that I could move this horse with two feathers in place of my legs is completely irrelevant.

I mean, they DID use to say how other horses (other than the one I always ride) are like racing cars and mine is like an old diesel engine and whatnot. But that comparison is the greatest understatement I’ve ever heard.

Not to come through as if I’m complaining. I’m not! I’m just – WOW!

I love horses.
They are wonderful…I just hope I will have the opportunity to do this….

I even live on the village. What a coward,ha? :)