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Post by shybootsrox on Jul 24, 2006 15:45:57 GMT -5
hey guys my name is Morgan and i'm thirteen! I'm going into 8th grade. i live in New York but not torwards the city in the middle of nowhere infact. i own one horse. She is an American quarter horse, about 18 years old.She is a sorrel, and can go western, english,or bareback. i used to ride English but now i ride Western.
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Post by ashlea on Jul 24, 2006 16:15:22 GMT -5
Hey, cool to hear about your horses...see you around
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Post by kelsey on Jul 24, 2006 21:09:26 GMT -5
why'd you quit english?! western is so bumpy!!! hehe. your horse sounds cute!!
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Post by shybootsrox on Jul 24, 2006 22:16:22 GMT -5
lol well to tell you the truth........ i took a really bad fall on an english horse and now everytime i get up in an english saddle i see it happening again and i get scared.... how lame right??
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Post by kelsey on Jul 24, 2006 22:51:50 GMT -5
haha. pretty lame. no offense. you have to get over your fear. i've fallen off sooo many times, i laugh as soon as i hit the ground.
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Post by ~xJustALineInASongx~ on Jul 25, 2006 11:35:39 GMT -5
LOL....same here Kelsey, I came off of Parker sooo many times when I was training him it wasn't even funny.Will and Nate would always think I was insane b/c Parker could've just bucked me off or thrown me, and I'll be laying on the ground laughing my head off as he canters around the ring.LOL....Will says that I got brain damage, but Nate just says I'm weird...lol...i tell then it's part of riding, but they are convinced I'm just insane....lol......bnut it all pays off, I mean, look at Parker in the pics under my page on the Real Life( it's the one titled, Me-Laura)...he's like, the perfect hunter horse now......
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Post by shybootsrox on Jul 25, 2006 12:44:40 GMT -5
yeah when ever i fall off western i laugh and such but............ my friend ended up getting a concussion from riding English and was in ICU for ova a month.... and i broke my rib,, and then i was blamed for it...... so i promised i would never ride English again.
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Post by ~xJustALineInASongx~ on Jul 25, 2006 15:18:13 GMT -5
That's a silly thing tp promise.....i mean, english, sure, you fall more often, but your also a better rider............
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Post by shybootsrox on Jul 25, 2006 15:20:09 GMT -5
yeah......... maybe when i get better and such......... and not in everybodys way........... i'll be able to do it agian i mean i did love it................ i could jump 2ft 8
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Grace
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Post by Grace on Jul 25, 2006 16:08:21 GMT -5
but your also a better rider............ Heeeyy...I resent that! Western and English riders are equal as long as they put a lot of effort into it. This is coming from someone who rode English for about 5 years then started Western for about 3 years. And western isn't bumpy, it depends on the horse. Like Shadown, I trained him to go slower so it's less bumpy. Depends on the horse, not the sport Welcome Morgan, fellow western rider! lol.
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Post by kelsey on Jul 25, 2006 18:03:19 GMT -5
yea. falling off helps you to learn to say on!! it did for me anyways. well, the only times i've ridden western, it was bumpy. just the jog though. loping is fine, but i prefer posting trot and cantering ... AND JUMPING. you cant jump western. well ... you can, but i dont recommend it. so ... GO ENGLISH!!!!! WOO!!
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Grace
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Post by Grace on Jul 25, 2006 18:22:57 GMT -5
Oh man...jumping western...haha! I have the funniest story about that. I was riding Shadow in my trainer's arena and just for fun my friend set up a pole bending pole across some barrels. It was about..2 feet 5 inches and she had lunged her mare across it earlier. Shadow must have saw the mare jumping it and decided he wanted to, too. But I didn't know it..I thought we were just gonna lope BY it..not over it..so we were loping around the arena (nice Western pleasure lope) and right as we were getting close he dived to the left and LEAPED it...I had a nice 'horn' sized bruise on meh tummy...owie.
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Post by ~xJustALineInASongx~ on Jul 25, 2006 21:51:14 GMT -5
If you think about it, english is more sifficult.You have to balance in these thin little straps with thin irons on them, and post and such.You learn how to become one with your horse in dressage, and fly over fences, like, 4 ft tall, and tear around a course of 4ft jumps at top speed while balancing in those thin stirrup leathers in x country.......i think i've made my point....
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Broken spirit
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Post by Broken spirit on Jul 26, 2006 2:41:44 GMT -5
Haha!! Yer i ride western and english and i have to say when i ride english i have to be more in-control and stuff but in western i just sit there and kinda tell the horse with my voice and clicks and a gentle move of the rien on it's neck round corners. I hardly ever you my legs. But like everyones saying i also have had a few bad falls off english one of them was when i was doing x country and my horse threw me over this water complex thing, i was knocked out underwater and then rushed to hospital i didn't wake up till the middle of the night the next day. I still got on the same horse (bubbles) and did x country again. Also i have broken my arm and had to have it operated on, got on the horse i had falled off again with all these rods sticking out my arm. Yer you get the picceh, i have a load more syories but i will stick to them 2. In western i havn't fallen off yet. Side saddle i have taken a couple of but most of them were out messing around on a hack or on the x country course and i have never been seriously injured from one of them though, in fact i just sit up laughing and say i did it again. or summat along them lines. Cause i usually fell off at the same place trying to same thing.
Okay i bored you all so i'm guna go now.
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Post by shybootsrox on Jul 27, 2006 0:21:13 GMT -5
yeah i think Western is tougher, i mean you sit in the saddle for hours, working with cattle that can charge you at any moment, the horse also has to learn to work with you, when you're calf roping you can't let the horse not listen to you.... you rope the cow the horse don't stop you drag the calf to death, the horse has to know to back up and wait for you to finish, and going around the barrels full speed, you can't do that on a run away horse also you can't grab the horn in shows and all even though almost everybody tries to!! and you ride with split reins so you drop one oh well jump off and grab it!!
GO WESTERN!!!!!!!!
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