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Post by tintin on Feb 21, 2011 14:29:41 GMT 1
The best instructor me and my Dad ever had had some great phrases, my favourite was:-
"Good Morning Gentlemen, I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy"
Once he was explaining the principles of the working of bit and bridle when one horse started to play up
"Now you will never control your horse by brute force alone. He is stronger than you. He is capable of pulling a full milk float, and will be proving it soon if he does not behave himself..."
Another favourite - "sit up straight, sit up straight - you look like a sack of ferrets"
Does anyone have any similar to share - either from books or real life?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2011 15:05:53 GMT 1
We used to get told if our reins were too long they looked like washing lines.
If we held our reins right into our stomachs then we looked like we were doing our knitting.
And if we slouched in the saddle we looked like a sack of potatoes.
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Post by tintin on Feb 22, 2011 13:22:37 GMT 1
Rosie,
"washing lines" brought back memories - did your instructor make the chicken noises if your elbows stuck out too much (or the more subtle "off to Kentucky are we?")
Another popular one - "If you look at the floor you'll end up on it"
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Post by Claire on Feb 22, 2011 13:27:50 GMT 1
lol sounds quite a character, coulod be in a pony book! Hmm well I leant to ride from a couple of teenage girls who took you out and taught you the basics whilst they yapped on mainly about boys. When I went to a 'proper' riding school for lessons there was one really nice teacher and another horrid one who was sarcastic and shouted at the poor kiddies, must have put a lot of people off riding. But I can't recall her saying anything witty. She was just a b*tch!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2011 14:10:04 GMT 1
Rosie, "washing lines" brought back memories - did your instructor make the chicken noises if your elbows stuck out too much (or the more subtle "off to Kentucky are we?") " I'm afraid she didn't have a sense of humour she was a real hard-nosed horsewoman who just barked at us. Would have been really funny if she had suddenly stuck out her elbows and made chicken noises.... ;D
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Post by kunuma on Feb 22, 2011 21:38:39 GMT 1
Strangely can't really say mine counted as an instructor, as I used to go for what were called riding lessons, but we only ever rode around the roads. Probably why I had reached a very old age before I knew where X was in a school, I went to take my Stages exams but I had never ridden in a school before - talk about a crash course! The one thing that did get well and truly fixed in my head was to look after your horse before yourself. I have kept to that!
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