#riding lessons

[poppy428]

Jasper is Texas down to his boots and I’m guessing he knows how to ride horses. I hope Jasper teaches Guy how to ride in future seasons 😇

[latenightsushi]

First time back in the saddle since I sprained my wrist 6 weeks ago, and it feels so good! I really missed this little goober 💖

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[vikkicomics]

Moth Vol 5, Riding Lesson with Peter, expt.

Peter is 18 and Siegfried is 22 in this scene, which is set in the Ostprignitz countryside in 1911. In Moth Vol 5, Siegfried’s engagement to a young noble lady is called off, which prompts the lady's brother to challange him to a pistol duel, preferring not to accept the duel, he leaves Königsberg and gets some horse riding lessons in the countryside. Peter has severe dyslexia which actually effects how your whole brain processes information, not just literacy, but he might also be read as an autistic character, the sort that is insensitive to sensations, in contrast to Siegfried, who's high masking aspergic and over-sensitive to sensations. So I hope you'll enjoy two neuro-divergent German men from the 1900's shouting at each other.

[heartlandians]

Spencer Twins's Instagram Stories 14/5/2024

[turianspeedjunkie]

@crassussativum

Velox had brought them out to the stables so see the riding beetles they had. These weren’t the same species as the ones the used for meat. These weren’t as round, or that shimmering black. But more elongated in the body and their exoskeleton was an earthy brown, shifting in and out in reds and yellows. They also didn’t grow as big. “So...” he turned to Cato. “You wanted to learn how to ride one?”

[screampotato]

It's a while since I've ridden a horse, but I look at this situation and I see a terrible accident about to happen.

By Linda Spashett Storye_book - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7456158

I mean, look at this. The rider is clearly paying no attention to what's happening and is too busy trying to conceal her vitals to control the horse, so she's given it its head. Fine if the horse were a steady beast, but it's clearly a flighty sort and is already dancing about and borderline spooking at something.

Meanwhile she's sat on there with no saddle, only her bare cheeks on a rug. And the rug is falling off onto the ground.

In approximately three seconds, the horse will step on the rug and get it tangled in its feet. The rug will slide off its back, lady and all. The horse will then spook and bolt, and she'll be left there on the ground in the nudd, wishing she'd taken some lessons in effective forms of nonviolent activism before she came up with this plan. Or at least, wishing she'd taken riding lessons.

[nastybuckybarnes]

Omg please tell me you’re doing a part 3 of Riding Lessons!😍😍😍

I 100% am!

I haven’t started it yet, but I’m definitely doing at least one more part

[stirrupsandscones]

Let's sum up my riding time over the last year and a half.

Working from oldest to newest, I:

- Left the a barn I had been at for about six months due to general dissatisfaction with the instructor.

- Rode for about three months with a new dressage instructor but then left due to end of the year/winter weather/holidays. She had no indoor and limited availability to lesson that didn't conflict with my work schedule. Plus I knew I was moving too far away to ride there in the spring so I just never went back.

- Didn't ride from January through August due to the aforementioned moving and then *dun dun dun* the pandemic became a thing.

- Started riding at a very large public riding stable unlike any I had ever been at before. Rode on average only 3 times a month. They then went on an end of the year break until January.

That leads me to now and frankly I don't know what to do with horseback riding. I just feel like I never have enough time to do it, or at least not enough time to ride enough to actually improve in a measurable way. Then there's the money. Lessons are anywhere from 55-85 for privates. Then if I wanted to ride more it would be hundreds of more dollars for a lease. I COULD spend that money but I sure as hell don't want to. Then there's the distance. Jersey traffic sucks and my job is 35 mins away from the closest barns, which would be 45-50 in rush hour afterwork. That limits my riding to the weekend, which again limits how much I can ride. Which limits how much I can improve.

I don't know. I just feel like I can barely ride anymore. I don't feel capable or confident when I get on a horse anymore. I feel like I missed my chance to ride often and ride well. It's disheartening.

Maybe one day.