My own riding career thus far had been a roller coaster ride, tendency to second guess myself battled continually with my natural instincts. Over thinking things led me to over riding, and my mixed signals led my horse to produce ignorance. My consistence hesitation caused my horse and I to become mentally stuck. Each lesson was an interminable cycle of frustration, never reaching nirvana. Riding requires both horse and rider to become one. In doing so, the rider must be able to read the horse's body language as well as the horse must be able to read the rider's cues. I struggled with the fact that my methods were getting me nowhere, but now I had confirmation. I abandoned the ways I had thought to be correct, in order to become a more efficient
