Horseback Riding Lessons Make Your Time in the Saddle More Enjoyable
Probably the best way to enhance your pleasure in associating with your equine friends is to take some horseback riding lessons from a top instructor. Your time in the saddle or on the ground with your horse can be made far more rewarding. Usually a total immersion course of a week will give far better results than an hour’s lesson a few times a month. I think that often it is good during these courses to spend some time just riding and practicing without an instructor so that you can start doing the things learned instinctively without thinking about them. A good horse will help you do the right thing. It is impossible to concentrate on everything at once so riders have to be able to rely on instinct for some things. Also there is a great deal more to riding than cantering around a ring. Horses and riders have a whole different psychology when they are galloping on a deserted beach with the breakers rolling in beside them and salt spray in the air. It is even more exciting to be racing a herd of zebra across the plains of the Masai Mara and you aren’t likely to be thinking about your riding style so your instincts had better be good. The only way to start doing the right thing automatically is first to learn the right way and then confirm it by spending many hours in the saddle.
