September 2007 • VOLUME 25 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine

We are being told more and more stories of beginners, including children and adults learning to ride being told to haul on the bit and kick the horse with spurs or to use the crop liberally! What is going on? Join us as one rider bravely shares of her experience in the hopes that it will help others.

Have you experienced poor teaching. Let us know what your experiences have been. Do you feel there is a poor standard of teaching? And what do you think we can do about it.

Hi there - I'm a member of Enlightened Equitation, and Heather has mentioned on our forum that you want to do an article about the poor standard of teaching generally.

I can give you a recent example of a lesson where I was handed a crop and told to use it, when I protested I was basically told to shut up and get on with it.

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