mousegriff

In just two minutes, I came across two spoilers in *post titles.* Could the moderators do something about this? The spoiler tag and image blurring is great but useless if the title itself contains the spoiler.

I returned to riding as an adult this summer, and have been riding at two barns trying to decide which is best for me. This week I had a lesson experience that unnerved me at one of the barns, and I wanted to share it here to get some perspective on it. For context, I started cantering at one barn at the beginning of January. As a kid, the most I remember doing is some cantering, never any jumping.

At this week's lesson, I switched horses to one that I had ridden at most once several months earlier while we were still riding outdoors and before I had started cantering. The lesson started off strange, because suddenly the instructor was issuing tons of corrections that I hadn't been getting