To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [MSAR] MSAR Rider skills
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 07:34:01 -0600
Una wrote:
>> Don't you wish we could get everyone on MSAR-Riders to read
>> rec.equestrian for a few years? That would address most of
>> the basic horsemanship issues that come up here.
Jorene wrote:
>Better still, go find a QUALIFIED instructor and spend *at least* a year
>with riding lessons. Rider control is a big issue to be successful in MSAR.
Sure, that would help. I am a frequent and happy consumer of
riding lessons myself, if for no other reason than as a student
I am entitled to grill someone for specific details on a point
of riding or training, and they will answer me at length (or I
get another instructor).
But I am thinking also of the readers here who have themselves
mastered basic horsemanship, but are at a loss re how to help
others in their units. Rec.equestrian is a venue where you can
learn by reading about other riders' problems and solutions.
And the diversity of both problems and solutions can be huge,
so you can learn a lot there.
Una Smith
Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse, in New Mexico