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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

There's more to learning about and getting confidence in horses than just getting on a trained horse and showing. The little things like general management, grooming, feeding, and training make better horsemen than riding skills alone. Anybody can be taught to pose and stay on a trained horse. It takes a lot more skill to have to learn how to do everything for that horse yourself and work through problems on your own.

Kids who aren't blessed with 'riding families' have a lot tougher time getting to be good riders and horsemen (and horsewomen) but those people generally know a lot more and are better all-around with horses than those who strictly ride at full-service barns.

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because the parents are too protective. my dad just turned me loose in the pasture with some old nag till i figured out what i was doing, when i fell off he told me what i did wrong and made me get back on. now parrents are so scared of jerms and scrapes that kids cant gain any real experance these days.

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Well i came from a mom that hates horses

a brother whos 21 who is afraid of horses

and a dad who owned shetland ponies his whole life

and me! I LoVe horses!!!!

That wasnt even in your question sorry!

And IDK about your question!

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Not in my experience!! Where I am from the riding family kids kicked the butts of the ones who thought they could. I was breaking & training at 12 yr. I worked at two ranchs, & my parents ranch as well. The two ranches I broke at I worked there for 10 yrs each, they were brothers.

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well the ppl that come from riding families think they are so good at it, so they dont try as hard.ppl that dont actually try and excel in riding

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I had never noticed this...

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Kids that come from riding families usually are entered into the sport because their family does it, but not necessarily because they want to do it. They also sometimes take the ability to take riding lessons for granted and don't try as hard to excel, because they know it will be in their life regardless of how hard they try to be their best. Some kids also just want to earn the blue ribbons and be the best, but slack on the job once lessons start up again;it just isn't that important a sport to them. Children that don't grow up in riding families, like me, tend to want to try their hardest for many reasons: They want their family to be proud of them and their sport, they save up for lessons and realize how much work it is to take them, so they want to do well in their well-earned lessons, they want to show off their love of the sport by doing shows ( and being good in them) , or they might just want to be the best! Hope this helped a little! :)