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Why does it seem like kids who come from riding familys cant ride as well as those that dont come fr2007-11-24 21:23:23

i used to have a horse that would attack other horses in the arena, and do other insane stuff. Well I would be riding it, then it would flip out, and people would always make comments about 'what im doing to it to make that nice horse flip out like that' one day I let a particular person that would always make these comments get on him, she got thrown into the arena wall head first and went to the ER...no more comments about me making my "really nice" horse go crazy. She couldnt even make him do one lap of the arena, which I guess I made look really easy...

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Some of it probably that they have always had their parents to help out. Since I come from a nonriding family, I do A LOT of trial and error, and a lot of reading and picking of brains. I don't do anything because thats the way my parents do it.

Another reason is that often, kids whose parents ride start to young. A four or five year old simply cannot control thier own body as much as a seven, eight, nine, or ten year old can. young kids have short legs and proportionaly heavy heads. So as akward little kids, they learn how to look good, how to stay on, ect, but they can't learn to really go with the horse or to read it until they are older, at which time all their habits are firmly ground in.

Kids who start when they are older learn how to do things properly from the get go. They are more mentaly mature when they begin, and can pay attention longer, all of wich gives them a better overall foundation.