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Is dressage fun? And other questions
Occassionaly I check my site statistics to see what search terms people are actually using to find my site. For the paranoid among us: don’t worry. My stats are aggregate and I don’t know who typed in which term.
Lately, I’ve been getting some interesting search terms, including a few questions, so I thought I’d help clear up confusion.
Search Term: halt near x
Dear People Trying to Find this Site’s Credentials:
It doesn’t have any.
Love, the pseudo-anonymous Halt Near x
Search Term: gold buttons coat fashionable
Dear Fashion Conscious:
I am so sorry you found this site in a fashion-related search. For what it’s worth, I think gold anything is a bit tacky. Give me silver or platinum any day. I’m also partial to bronze.
But keep in mind that what I know about fashion would take an entire season of “What Not To Wear” to fix, and at the end of the season the hosts would have to be locked in a dark, padded room for six months to recover. I doubt even the Fab Five could help me.
Love, “What is this ‘fashion’ thing of which you speak?” Halt Near X
Search Term: Is dressage boring compared to jumping?
Dear Jumper Fan,
You have, like, eight to twelve jumps in the arena, right? What do you think you’re doing in the space between all those jumps?
Ok, think of it like this:
The whole time you’re jumping, you have to think about your line, your impulsion, rating the horse, lead changes, getting to the right spot, bending through the turns, etc etc etc. Right? The actual jumps are sort of incidental. Fun–but incidental. Most of the work is spent on getting to/getting away from the jumps–not going over them.
Dressage is just like that, but without the jumps. Of course, if you just thought, “What is this bending thing of which you speak?”, then dressage might not be for you. But if you enjoy the technical aspects of jumping, you might be pleasantly surprised by how much fun dressage really is.
It helps if you’re a bit obsessive/compulsive, though.
Love, the very obsessive Halt Near X
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On Oct 12, 2006, RiderOne said:
Hello X: Could you devote a post some time to good reading material on dressage? I’d like some suggestions.
Riderone