Obviously each rider who gets into competition wants to become the best, if it is in dressage, jumping or eventing. Is every rider a potential super star? Or is there some other quality, something else that only the favoured few are born with? Contemporary studies on successful folks give powerful pointers that successful riders do share some common qualities that lesser folk do not possess.
1. Perseverance
Successful riders practice, practice some more and than push themselves to the edge by practicing some more. If you need to get to the top of whatever field you are engaged in, your dedicate all your soul, your energy and your time to taking yourself up the ladder of skill, one rung at a time. If you need to be a top rider, you need to eat, drink, breathe and live riding: nothing else should be permitted to divert your attention all through the days, the weeks, the months and the years. You need to train under the observation of an acknowledged expert who is consistently mastering your systems. He should be someone of exemplary eye for detail and an overriding zeal for all things equine.
2. Physical and Fitness and Mental Concentration
You cannot really be the best horseman unless you’re the fittest. Only the average accept that saddling up a decent fit horse and riding is all it requires. A decent fit horse needs a decent fit rider. The top riders at the Olympics and other events put themselves thru the grind also: they’re regulars at gymnasiums, swimming, jogging, something or the other that when pursued rigorously leads to top health. Most riders at the very top of the totem pole nowadays use the services of diet gurus and fitness experts. For themselves, apart from the professionals they hire for their horses. If you’d like to give yourself an edge, start with an effective fitness program.
3. Determination
Folk are fond of attributing reasons for success. Quite often, you may hear comments at events and competitions talking about how so and so “usually wins because he (or she) comes from a rich family who can afford the best horses and the best coaching facilities”. Etc. You will not hear many comments about the grind the winner went through: the hours of sacrifice and work, the hours of single-minded dedication. Practically every single winner has prevailed thru problems at some step or the other of his or her life. A lot of them really came from modest backgrounds: they didn’t have loaded folks and stables of pedigreed horses. Regardless of family and fiscal background, each single person at the top got there by expending blood, sweat and tears.
If you lack the steely determination to succeed, you’ll drop out at the first obstacle that you run into. On the other hand, if you are totally single minded about doing whatever is required to become a winner, you can do worse than start with a definite action plan. The core parts of your intention should include:
1. Riding as much as possible under the watchful eye of a high quality trainer;
2. Sticking to a correct fitness programme like pilates and selective diet;
3. Persisting. Problems are a part of life and each endeavour in life; somebody “a Chinese person, I suspect “extraordinarily properly said that failure is not falling down, failure is refusing to get up after falling.
Each time you trip and fall, get up and take the next little step. It’s the first of the leftover steps to success.
Horses are Heather Toms ‘ passion and she enjoys sharing her extensive knowledge thru her 100′s of articles with other horse lovers like all things about horse rugs .
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