“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

There was a time when I didn’t have a coach. I lived in no-where Texas…………

(the No-Where-Ranch is for sale if anyone wants to own this fabulous arena!)

but when you live in No-Where there is a dearth in upper level eventing instructors. I desperately needed help……..

so I started filming all my rides. As I watched them I didn’t have an educated enough eye to know what the problems were.

So I started watching Rolex videos.

Go Big or Go Home.

I would watch my video……… and then a Rolex video……………..

Over & over.

Then I started looking for Rolex riders whose body size to horse ratio best matched mine.

At the time I was riding a 14.1 hand pony.

Being 5’9″ the best comparison I discovered was William Fox Pitt………. on pretty much anything he rode.

I quickly saw some things he did that I didn’t………….. and when I adjusted my position……… things started clicking into place.

Ever since then, I have continuously obsessed over my videos, watching frame by frame to see if I’m happy with my hands, my seat, my leg……….

Then during a lesson the other day, something like THIS happened……

And while having a chat about what went wrong…………………..

And boy did it…………

The fearless leader said,

“Look. Make a choice, jump the jump, don’t go obsess over your videos when sh*t goes wrong, sometimes you just have to go jump the jump again.”

And for once………I did!