Do You Ride Horses?

[karkadorr]

Alrighty, I'll try and get them up later c:
OMG I love making up stories about horses, and that incident sounds so hilarious xDD
One time my friend and I made up a social hierarchy for all the horses at the stable, categorizing the emos, the goths, the antisocials, the love triangles, the twins, the divas, the populars, the wise ones, the respected ones, etc. Oh, it was so much fun and the scary thing was that I could easily imagine it being like that.

[.Scarlet.]

Hahaha I totally agree fate! What's funny is when we stand in the middle to wait for someone to finish their course we have to stay slightly distanced from one and other. And if they try to 'talk to each other' we say, we tell them YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS! And move more apart. Lol. Because the time. I was riding a horse named Raymond. He was an appendix horse cross. And he squealed! A super high pitched, not a normal horse squeal. It startled the crap out of me!!

[karkadorr]

OMG hahahah that's too funny - I find it so hilarious when horses squeal (not when their in pain or danger or anything like that of course)
Would you guys prefer looking at photos of me riding or an actual video? o.0

[.Scarlet.]

Photos are easier for me since I'm on my iPod but I'll look at either. Videos have more to watch though.

[karkadorr]

Meh I'll do both. Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGABBw4aSM

And here are some photos c: (sorry, some are edited ._. ) The paint's name is Mystic and the bay's is Piano - these are the two horses I ride regularly<3 Sorry for the image spam! D: ...and I've realized that some of them are waaaay too big ;-; sorry!

[.Scarlet.]

I just have to say, you and that paint seem perfect for each other. Your jumping shots with it are beautiful

[karkadorr]

Awww, thank you<33 Haha, I love Mystic - he was the first horse I leased at my stable, but now I don't get to ride him as often because he's being leased by someone else ._. but on the bright side, her lease on him is ending in about a week or so

[Mr.Milo]

@Imperial: wow you are an amazing rider and the horses you are riding are beautiful!!! Your form is almost perfect on all of them. I really like the second one, that is a pretty high jump and you had awesome form on it. Im not much of a Hunter or Jumper so i can't offer specific things you should change. But I had to comment on your beautiful riding!

[.Scarlet.]

If anything, your hands like to climb his neck in the video. But your seat and legs looked good. Yeah. Strides are a pain in te butt. I don't get to jump a lot, but I enjoy it. I hope to start jumping Phin soon. We got to canter little jumps my last lesson and he did so good :3

[karkadorr]

@Mr.Mile ;; omg thank you so much<33 that means a lot to me, so thank you c:
@scarlet ;; yeah, I've noticed that as well (; At times I also pump my hands too much, and I have to work on that because it's not kind on the horse's mouth, and it doesn't do anything to help my riding. OMG striding, ugh I can remember. I used to have so many problems with striding, but now I think I'm getting better c: The thing with Mystic is that you can never tell which stride will work, so you have to plan ahead and everything, but with Piano you can feel automatically which stride will take you over the jump ^^ that's what I really love about riding him. Ooh, when you do jump him, post photos - I'd like to see C: Congratulations on the successful last lesson!!! Good lessons always make me feel so happy afterwards ^^