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Very funny!!! I especially like the young horse one! Been there a few times!! 😂😂THE REAL RULES OF DRESSAGE ![]()
1. If you really want to get better at dressage, take it up at an earlier age - and grow an extra 3 inches of leg.![]()
2. A dressage test is a test of your skill against another competitor's luck.![]()
3. Dressage is about achieving a harmonious working relationship with your horse, whose only idea of harmony is eating grass in a field with his buddies.![]()
4. If you want to end a drought or dry spell, wear a new jacket and hat to an outdoor arena.![]()
5. Untalented, difficult, aggressive horses have robust health, good hocks and long lives.![]()
6. Talented tractable horses are accident prone and have OCD lesions.![]()
7. You will ride the best test of your entire life just prior to being disqualified for not wearing your gloves.![]()
8. Never keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your head before a test.![]()
9. Never keep less than another 300 separate thoughts in your head during a test.![]()
10. Horses do not improve their paces because you are wearing expensive German breeches.![]()
11. If you chose a disco theme for your dressage to music test then the judge will be more than 90 years of age and Swiss.![]()
12. The less skilled the rider, the more likely they are to share their critique of your test.![]()
13. If you are considering the services of a horse clairvoyant to help you with training then you have reached the point of total desperation - try the German breeches.![]()
14.Your horse has never heard of Podhajsky, let alone read the book.![]()
15. No matter how badly you ride a test, it is always possible to ride a worse one.![]()
16. If it ain't broke, try shifting your position and it will be.![]()
17. Judges only suffer from temporary blindness (or kindness) when they are judging someone else's test.![]()
18. If you fall off your horse in the arena you will have paid to have the test videoed.![]()
19. If you are feeling confident before a show then three of the GB dressage team will turn up to give their young horses some "experience."![]()
20. Your horse will perform its best piaffe ever when you ask for extended canter.![]()
22. Since runs of bad competitions come in groups of three, the fourth competition is actually the beginning of the next group of three.![]()
23. No one cheats at dressage because no one has worked out how to do it.![]()
24. It is surprisingly easy to end a test with a perfect square halt once you have scored a four for every other movement.![]()
25. The result of an expensive lesson from a top pro is that you will stop believing in that tiny piece of innate ability that was holding your riding together.![]()
26. Remember when buying a dressage horse advertised as "needs experienced competitive rider" this really means "needs the skills of Isabelle Werth just to stay on board."![]()
27. If you think your test was better than someone else's, it probably wasn't.![]()
28. If you pay £60,000 for an imported WB, you will be beaten in Prelim by a Welsh Cob, ridden by a 9 year old.![]()
29. Clinics given by someone with an interesting accent are not necessarily superior to those given by the homegirl.![]()
30. If you go to the expense of raising an expensive WB foal, he will have a talent for jumping and no walk worth talking about.
This resonated. ![]()
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I often have people comparing themselves to how others represent themselves on social media. ![]()
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We never see the whole picture. ![]()
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Someone famous once said “comparison is the thief of joy”. (Can’t remember who🤦♀️) ![]()
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Run your own race. 💪🏼💪🏼![]()
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Didn’t quite go to plan at Rockingham today!! Lovely dressage for 29. Felt lovely and soft, but then very unusually had 2 down sj! Decided to withdraw and save his legs as ground pretty firm and at 15 he doesn’t need the runs!! Still a lovely day spent with good friends, and raided the Joules store!!! 😂😂🛍🛍![]()
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