sorry but you are somehow missing my point… its not important how much experience I have… The OP wants to make his own experiences… why not??
The OP wants to get experience for free. My point was that you’re comparing you videoing and critiquing yourself to save money to someone who wants to make it to 4th level with free videos and free lessons. You can’t “make your own experiences” without having some level of pre-existing experience to start with.
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my point is let him/her do it… He/she will find out her/himself
ROFLMAO!
Hey Sendenhorse, your alter is a fat, middle aged, Asian, hobby rider! :lol:
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Oh Good grief, Fricking STOP IT…or I will report you for threatening to report everyone…keep it for things that need reporting
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My comments in blue.
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Is M’s vigilante policing an attempt to emulate the great dressage-riding policeman Klaus Balkenhol? If so it might be worth noting that he was an actual police officer, not a mall cop, and had better things to do than keep a paranoid watch for mean girls. Alas, breaking up groups who laugh too loud and flexing one’s authority by threatening to escalate petty complaints will not make anyone better at dressage.
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so, what do you think needs reporting??? I am curious… One rule is to discuss in a polite way, and I would not call it polite to call other people a Troll. And remember you are not supposed to turn personal as well… And very unfortunately the only way to stop this is to report people… I never did it in the past but I decided at one point that there is no other way to stop personal attacks, and calling somebody a Troll is a personal attack 
I think Manni enjoys getting everyone to argue with her, and completely derailing threads. Can we all just agree to ignore her and go back to what we were talking about?
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Thank you!
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When someone has a bad experience at every place they have been, it’s time to consider that the common denominator is that person.
Even in the worst barns I’ve worked in, I’ve found things to learn from, and experiences that were positive. When one has bad experience after bad experience, it’s not hard to imagine why that might be,
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Yes please, ignore her. Her posts just drain the life from the party. Someone made the comparison of arguing with some people akin to playing chess with a pigeon. I think sentiment that applies here.
I don’t believe anyone can learn to ride dressage correctly just from reading books or watching videos, but I do believe some people have natural talent. And that innate ability can get them ahead without the struggles the rest of us face.
Anyway, this thread screams “set up for a train wreck” and it has been so very entertaining!
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ok very typical development, thats it for me…
Yes you really should… this thread is perfect for you all… You scared the OP away and you are just having fun…very entertaining. And by the way go back in the thread and look who started arguing… it wasn’t me… (not that I think it is useful to even mention it…)
So in post 213 she says - that’s for me… yet we see post 214. Would this go under the heading of the long goodbye 
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I’m so stealing the package pic. I’ll start sending it to my sister when I’m tired of reading her home drama. :winkgrin:
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Think I will report her for blatant lying
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Actually not very much really…it’s a forum, you don’t like it move on, you don’t act like a kiddie at school, threatening to tell teacher about everything.
I either fight my own battles, or shrug my shoulders and walk away, you should try it.
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Please don’t leave, @Manni01 - I am still curious as to what you think my “most favorite topic” is… ??? You condemn, point fingers and make assumptions and insinuations - that does not seem to be a polite way to discuss anything.
Back on topic. The only way the OP is going to figure out that he/she is not the magical horse whisperer instant 4th level rider they think they are is to check the attitude at the barn door and clean stalls, turn out, feed and start from the bottom up with open ears and an open mind and a closed mouth. They may be one of those naturally gifted riders who can sit on a rocking horse and have it doing Grand Prix moves effortlessly… but most riders like that do not blow their own horn.
One of the women (let’s call her Jill) in my group lesson (4 riders in a massive arena) years ago was a hard working stay at home mom with 3 small kids - her weekly escape was our long early Sunday morning dressage lessons that were exhausting but fun. She was one of those naturally gifted riders… and completely unaware of it. Every horse she sat on became better - light, forward, collected… one week, she rode an unbalanced, flighty, ewe-necked TB mare who was new to the barn - and within a lap or two of the arena that horse was transformed. She was tracking up from behind, using her back, softly on the bit, ewe neck doing things it had not done in years - if ever.
I was in awe. What the rest of us worked on, studied, and sought to perfect was just… there … for her. She had IT - and the horses knew it and loved her.
You know those current “be like” internet memes that are everywhere? I would have done one this way…
[I]Jill can ride the most burned out lesson horse and make it forward, relaxed and happy.
Jill can quietly ride the most fractious, anxious horse and have it bending, relaxed and happy.
Jill’s aids are all but invisible.
Jill is one with the horse.
Be like Jill. [/I]
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Pretty sure she’s made at least four dramatic exits. I cannot comprehend how someone can post so much, yet say so little of value; how someone can take such grave offense and then keep coming back for more. This thread was my first direct interaction with that poster and my mind absolutely boggles that there exists a real person out there who can so magnificently and realistically impersonate a wet blanket.
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