Rhonda Lane's Musings on Life Through an Equestrian Lens
Rhonda Lane's Musings on Life Through an Equestrian Lens
Yeah, we hear it all the time. “The horse does all the work.” Or, “The rider’s just sitting there.” And don’t get me started on what I’ve seen on Twitter.
C’mon. You know The Great Ones at anything make what they do look easy, right? The hard work, let alone the 10,000 hours it took, only shows in that they’re invisible.
Equestrian sports are team sports in which a human athlete’s partner is:
I know you’ll enjoy reading this article by Sam Knight in the New Yorker as much as I did. The article mentions the mirrors as training tools.
In other news, I finally remembered I can embed the free images from Getty Images here on this blog.
Check out this YouTube video found by Elaine from the Mooreland Equestrian Center:
If you can’t see the above-embedded video of the dancing New Orleans police horse, click on the link.
This video made me think of three important things:
Reining isn’t just for the ranch, the rodeo or the arena.
Police horses as a part of community policing aren’t only reactive but proactive.
Smiling helps you heal. When we smile together, we all heal.
My saddlebags are just about topped off with all this horse-pucky about dressage being an elitist sport.
Y’all know there are different kinds of dressage, right? (Well, a lot of our regular readers know, but you first-timers may not.) Did you know that some types of dressage might even be much more accessible for regular folks like us? Maybe even for Joe Six-Pack and Joanne Box-o-White-Zin, especially if they switch to iced tea and save up?
So, let’s go check out some Dressage for Normal Budgets. First up in the order-of-go …
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