Riding horses will always carry risks but.....
You can manage many risks to increase the probability of a successful safe ride....you just need to learn how!
Unfortunately, our equestrian culture is rather blind to seeing risk, assessing risk and understanding how to minimise risk. We get used to seeing tense and anxious horses...look at our art, statues, rocking horse's, merry-go-rounds....look at the horse's faces and postures!
Not only this, our culture has this big element of "cowgirling up", "riding through it", "get bucked off - get back on", "putting your brave pants on" etc.
This video and the groups response to it is really interesting and so reflective of our culture. It is a good example of how culture clouds your predictive brain - controlling what you can see and identify as important.
14 янв 2022
