Champers fun
Morning shenanigans 😂
Never Give Up
Life can be hard. Following your dreams can be even harder. There is always something or someone who will try to dissuade you from where you want to go. That’s life. The key is knowing how to push through and never give up no matter how hard it gets. I show my students the hardest parts of riding. I show them when things don’t go their way. I show them how to overcome all obstacles to create safer riders. More educated riders for those bad situations that we know will happen. Once they push past that, it’s amazing the success they can have because that fear of “what if I fall” or “what if they run” doesn’t hold as much weight anymore because they know how to handle the situation. Now they can push themselves farther. Chase their dreams and better their riding techniques and skills. Or in the case of this girl- stand and direct your horse because why not!?
I may not be the streamlined trainer, but I am a trainer who cares about your safety and also cares about pushing you to be the best you can be. My students like to joke - “Ms Jess will put you through the fire” and yes, I will be tough, I will get loud, but it’s all a technique I have spent years working on that I have learned many kids need. Some kids need a different approach and well of course I do that too. Everything I do is to help every student be the best and safest rider they can be and when I see my students having a blast doing what they love and knowing I will always have their back, it warms my heart in so many ways on so many levels.
Time and patience is so important to so many things in life. Even more so with the horses. With Zeus in particular, he is teaching me a new meaning behind patience. With his one eye not doing great and causing him to have sight issues we are learning a whole new process to our training. And I value every minute of it and would not trade it for anything!
