>>>> I couldn't watch all of it. I see Icelandics don't have a corner on bad >>>> riding, bad hands, bad seat....
There's one major difference that I see, Wanda. I'd betcha that most of those people have never had one riding lesson in their lives. It's very much a "seat of the pants" style in gatherings like that. I betcha you won't hear any of those dudes bragging about having attended some national riding school. They ride that way because it accomplishes their goal - speed and gait. They probably don't think about what it's doing to the horses, and "rider style" isn't on their radar screens. Seriously, I don't know one single "educated" rider that rides that way in the South. It's a country, redneck thing. (Not that there's always something wrong with being a country redneck...) I'm from the South, and I've spent many hours taking riding lessons. I could have been riding like that all these years, but I wanted to learn better. I'm certainly not interested in taking clinics that teach that style of riding...even if the clinicians are now mostly sitting more upright in the saddle. Karen Karen Thomas Wingate, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.18/1104 - Release Date: 11/1/2007 6:47 PM
