4 Woods Equestrian

09/05/2024

This mare is here at the barn and we are hoping to find her a fitting home with someone who will love on her how she deserves! 🖤 Please share so we can find her a home!

Lakota, is a very sweet 17 yo QH mare. She's a great little (14.3hh) trail horse who loves to please. She will do arena work as well, but would much rather spend time on trails. Goes through water, over bridges, and isn't spooky.
She's an easy keeper and does great with the farrier, trailering, ground manners, etc. She's laid back but does best with an intermediate rider as she can be a bit pushy and will get frustrated without direct, understandable cues. Lakota is happily and soundly barefoot along with UTD on shots, teeth, deworming, and has her coggins done. She does well around kids, dogs, and other farm pets.

06/04/2024

Couldn’t agree more!

I read a theory about why so many riders lack a deep command of basics, and it was explained like this---

Correct basics are hard to master because there is an enormous amount of repetition involved, and if someone has tried something hundreds, possibly thousands of times, and still can’t do it, it is easy for the person to conclude that he/she is taking on an impossible challenge.

In his book “Mastery,” George Leonard wrote that on the quest to become good, there will be long stretches of “seeming non-improvement.”

Like watching grass grow, change is happening, but so slowly that it can’t be measured daily, weekly, or even monthly. But at some point, for those who stick with it, “suddenly” they can do things that before they couldn’t do.

The issue is giving up in frustration before putting in those many many many many months of practice.

That is ONE theory. I am sure there are many others, but this one does ring true.