Blue Moon Riding School

It is a lovely sunny week this week, perfect for riding. If you are looking for a riding school for yourself or your child come and visit Blue Moon Riding School near the World of Birds. I offer private lessons and groups on our lovely horses. I take kids from 7 and adults are welcome even if you have no riding experience. I teach correct technique in a safe and encouraging non-competitive environment.

Please contact Jo for more info on 083 570 8770 or [email protected]

It feels like spring this week after the cold and wet last week! Now is a great time to come and ride, the weather is perfect!

Dori watching the storm. 60mls in 35 minutes!

The arena was amazingly mostly dry after the crazy storm this morning

I am so lucky to have the amazing new shelter in this awful weather. All the horses cuddled up together in the storm this morning.

I read a theory about why so many riders lack a deep command of basics, and it was explained like this---

Correct basics are hard to master because there is an enormous amount of repetition involved, and if someone has tried something hundreds, possibly thousands of times, and still can’t do it, it is easy for the person to conclude that he/she is taking on an impossible challenge.

In his book “Mastery,” George Leonard wrote that on the quest to become good, there will be long stretches of “seeming non-improvement.”

Like watching grass grow, change is happening, but so slowly that it can’t be measured daily, weekly, or even monthly. But at some point, for those who stick with it, “suddenly” they can do things that before they couldn’t do.

The issue is giving up in frustration before putting in those many many many many months of practice.

That is ONE theory. I am sure there are many others, but this one does ring true.