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Topic: My weekend....
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cowgirl247
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posted May 17, 2004 04:55 PM
hey everyone! just wanted to tell y'all about my Sunday....i volunteer w/a riding center that does horseback riding lessons for people with disabilities and this past weekend was their big annual National State Competition. It was up in Burbank at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center (OMG, that place is sooooooooo nice!! i dunno what they'd pay for a stall the size my horse has now but if it weren't so far away from my house, i'd totally wanna put Coco there). Anyway they had people competiting in dressage events and one of our riders who went to competition is blind (i had not met him before because he rides at the center on a different day when i am not there) and he did the dressage event all by himself...trotting and cantering and all!!! i was so impressed watching him do it! the only thing was that since he is blind he (obviously) had a little bit of trouble staying on the rail and he had to have people standing at each of the different letters throughout the dressage arena and the people would call out their letter to him as he would get near them so that he would know what to do at which letter and where to go for the next one (so, like, if he had to get to "A", only the person who was standing at letter "A" would be calling out their letter until he got there, then whoever had the next letter where he had to go would start calling out their letter, etc.)
When he was done, we all went back to our little "area" that had been set up and this little blind girl approached us with her mother with her and asked to speak with the gentleman who had just been riding because she and her daughter had been watching him perform and had wanted to meet him because they were both just in awe that he was a blind man, yet was competing in a dressage event and was cantering and trotting around the arena all on his own. So the gentleman and the little girl talked for awhile. The gentleman was maybe 67 years old or so and the little girl couldn't have been more than 10. It was just really cool to watch this blind man ride his horse like that!
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"We ride and never worry about the fall. I guess that's just the cowboy in us all"-Tim McGraw
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Posts: 192 | From: Southern California | Registered: Apr 2004
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bay_blnd jmpr07
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posted May 17, 2004 05:11 PM
i volunteer at a center like u!! isnt it great!! i read an article about this woman who became blind and she had bought a lovely pinto gelding and she did hunter on him!! she was doing like 3" or suttin and her husband would transmit where she had to go (left, right ect) and she trusted her horse so much! but ppl thought it was cheating, but its harder even when someone tells u wut to do and can read the course, cuz u need to do everything right then and there. its unbelievable...
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Posts: 1959 | From: Connecticut | Registered: Nov 2003
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HorsebackRider1578
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posted May 17, 2004 05:52 PM
yes, thats incredible. i don't help out, but i'd love to help out sumwhere sumtime!!! sounds great!!!
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Posts: 38 | From: MA | Registered: May 2004
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cowgirl247
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posted May 17, 2004 07:29 PM
yeah it is great! i been there for 3 years now and it puts things into perspective for me. Like, there's so many things i can do that the riders can't and whatnot and you don't worry so much about the big things in life....
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Save a horse, ride a cowboy!!
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return..."-"Moulin Rouge"
"We ride and never worry about the fall. I guess that's just the cowboy in us all"-Tim McGraw
"So don't you sit upon the shoreline and say you're satisfied. Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides"-Garth Brooks
Due to recent budget cuts, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
Posts: 192 | From: Southern California | Registered: Apr 2004
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