Is anyone else super excited for Christmas?

My first pro lesson was my first lesson, so we just focused on basics. After a few years of just doing basic general western riding, I started barrel racing lessons with someone else. She wasn't a pro, but she's one of the best in the area.

She wins EVERY single show around here (and her horse is Peanut's brother!). Those were some intense lessons. After a while of that I quite taking lessons.

Then when I started lessons again, they were reining lessons. The instructor wasn't considered "pro" at the time, but that's only because if she accepted the title of 'professional' she wouldn't be able to show in the same thing she was showing at the time. All just technicalities.

Although she wasn't a professional at the time, she had already won multiple world championship titles and everyone who knew her considered her a professional (she has now accepted that title and is competing at the pro level, not the non-pro). Anyway, those were some of the more intricate lessons I could have imagined. Exhausting too.

But damn I learned a lot. After I had moved on from my beginning instrustor, I never again had instructors that let me go slow. Thye expected me to be able to do it correctly right from the beginning (well they didn't "expect" it, but they pushed for it).

The pushed me really hard and I thank god I had instructors like that. Because without that push from them, I wouldn't be where I am today. Advice: -Keep your ears open.

Instructors will talk your ears off so try not to zone out and miss something important. -It's going to be hard. Good lessons are generally difficult, but once you get used to it you won't mind.

-My barrel racing instructor was quite the yeller. So if I screwed something up, she would definitely let my know haha. I don't know what kind of instructor you'll end up with, but if they are the aggressive type and correct you on something, don't take it personally.

My instructor was never mad at me, she just knew that acting like that was going to make it really stick in my mind. And she was right, her method worked. -If you don't understand something, let them know immediately.

A good instructor should be very good at explaining things in different ways. -Most people end up loving their instructors when they stay with them for a while. So even if the lessons are difficult and exhausting, stick with it.

You'll thank yourself in the end. Good luck and have fun!

That's pretty cool! At my first lesson, I only walked and trotted. I already knew basic things, like how to stop, go and steer, but not much beyond that.

My second lesson, I only worked on the longe line, and I cantered that time. Then I started English lessons, and I've been riding English primarily ever since then. I have the best teacher in the world, I swear.

She explains things in such a way that it is easy for me to understand, she says why I have to do something (i.e. When she tells me to keep my heels down, she says that it is for balance, and if I have my feet in the wrong position it can hinder balance a lot!), and she lets me know when I'm doing something wrong, and praises me when I do it right! I struck gold, I tell you = I hope you get to ride soon!

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