Alright so I've been thinking about starting to ride horses! I just can't decide what kind of riding I want to do. Sooo...I was hoping you guys could help me out! Thanks guys!
I do Eastern riding. no, wait- English! Yeah it's English x-facepalm-x
ANYWAY, I think English is more common, but that could be because I live in the Eastern part of the US. In the west, there's Western, so I was confused with Western/Eastern or whatever. (I don't know where you live so I don't know what's most common there.) English is not like the stereotypical "cowboy," English is jumping, eventing, etc. "Cowboy" would be Western. If you go to you tube and type in the search thingy "Dressage Olympic clip" something should come up that in the Olympics is called Dressage, but it's basically English riding. I don't know much about Western style, but you can look into that as well. I've been riding for three-ish years, and I hope you start soon! Both styles I mentioned are fun, but as I already said I don't know much about Western. I really like Eastern though.
That was probably an info overload, but there's my two cents (although in this case it could be ten cents lol).
Yeah I know all about riding I just can't decide what to do! I've been into horses since 2nd grade and I'm in 7th now so I just can't decide! It is a real struggle...I want to either do western pleasure or jumping or dressage.
Yeah but back to Logan (sorry I always end up making it about me ), I agree with Dragon. [insert Dragon's comment here]. And bareback can be scary Flamefrost, but i wouldnt know since the only time I ever "rode" bareback was... I think around in the age span of 3 - 6. Idk. I was just up on the horse (a gray [the white term] pony called Mystery) while the owner (my Godmother's daughter) held the reigns so I couldn't signal the horse to go lol. It was on a family trip tomy Godparent's place.
Moonglow: .... yeah..... nobody either asked or needed to know that.
Harrytail: x slaps Moonglow with wing playfully x Is there ever a time when you aren't cheeky?
I do Eastern riding. no, wait- English! Yeah it's English x-facepalm-x
ANYWAY, I think English is more common, but that could be because I live in the Eastern part of the US. In the west, there's Western, so I was confused with Western/Eastern or whatever. (I don't know where you live so I don't know what's most common there.) English is not like the stereotypical "cowboy," English is jumping, eventing, etc. "Cowboy" would be Western. If you go to you tube and type in the search thingy "Dressage Olympic clip" something should come up that in the Olympics is called Dressage, but it's basically English riding. I don't know much about Western style, but you can look into that as well. I've been riding for three-ish years, and I hope you start soon! Both styles I mentioned are fun, but as I already said I don't know much about Western. I really like Eastern though.
That was probably an info overload, but there's my two cents (although in this case it could be ten cents lol).
Yeah I know all about riding I just can't decide what to do! I've been into horses since 2nd grade and I'm in 7th now so I just can't decide! It is a real struggle...I want to either do western pleasure or jumping or dressage.
I do English hunter/jumper (haven't gotten to jumping yet though) and I love it!! If I have horses as an adult I will probably do English pleasure
DO ENGLISH JUMPING OR ENGLISH DRESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well that's my opinion I didn't mean to sound like i'm the boss LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol when I said western pleasure I meant western dressage! but i probs gonna jump
Um, there is no such thing as Western Dressage, at least that I know of. Dressage is a subdivision of English riding.
(Dragon, little help here?)
Oops! I looked it up.
sorry I made a fuss about that
lol thats ok! its not very common so it easily gets forgotten...
Maybe you could find a place that lets you go back and forth until you decide. And my personal preference is bareback
bareback sounds really frightening to me for some reason.
It can be at first, but it's a really easy way to get a better seat.
Yeah but back to Logan (sorry I always end up making it about me ), I agree with Dragon. [insert Dragon's comment here]. And bareback can be scary Flamefrost, but i wouldnt know since the only time I ever "rode" bareback was... I think around in the age span of 3 - 6. Idk. I was just up on the horse (a gray [the white term] pony called Mystery) while the owner (my Godmother's daughter) held the reigns so I couldn't signal the horse to go lol. It was on a family trip tomy Godparent's place.
Moonglow: .... yeah..... nobody either asked or needed to know that.
Harrytail: x slaps Moonglow with wing playfully x Is there ever a time when you aren't cheeky?
Moonglow: x grinning x nope!
Harrytail: x grins x