Clearly each rider who gets into competition wants to become the best, whether or not 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 folk give powerful suggestions that successful riders do share some common qualities that lesser people do not possess.
1. Determination
Successful riders practice, practice some more and than push themselves to the edge by practicing some more. If you need to get to the very top of whatever field you are engaged in, your devote all your soul, your energy and your time to taking yourself up the ladder of ability, one rung at a time. If you want to be a top rider, you want to eat, drink, breathe and live riding: nothing else should be allowed to distract you all through the days, the weeks, the months and the years. You need to train under the control of a recognized expert who is continually mastering your methodologies. She or he should be somebody of exemplary eye for detail and an overriding enthusiasm for all things equine.
2. Physical and Fitness and Mental Concentration
You can not truly be the best horseman unless you’re the fittest. Only the mediocre believe that saddling up a good fit horse and riding is all it takes. A good fit horse requires a good fit rider. The top riders at the Olympics and other events put themselves thru the grind also: they are regulars at gymnasiums, swimming, jogging, something or the other that when pursued rigorously leads to peak health. Most riders at the top of the totem pole today use the services of nutritionists and exercise gurus. For themselves, aside from the professionals they hire for their horses. If you’d like to give yourself an edge, start with an effective exercise regime.
3. Resolution
People are keen on attributing reasons for success. Quite often, you’ll 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 training facilities”. Etc. You will not hear many comments about the grind the winner went through: the hours of sacrifice and grind, the hours of single-minded perseverance. Practically every single winner has overcame through reversals at some step or the other of his or her life. Plenty of them essentially came from modest backgrounds: they didn’t have loaded parents and stables of pedigreed horses. Regardless of family and fiscal background, every single person at the very top got there by expending blood, sweat and tears.
If you lack the steely grit to achieve success, you will drop out at the first difficulty that you run into. On the other hand, if you’re definitely single minded about doing whatever is needed to become a winner, you can do worse than commence with a definite plan of action. The core parts of your scheme should include:
1. Riding as much as feasible under the watchful eye of a high quality trainer;
2. Sticking to a correct fitness regime such as pilates and selective diet;
3. Persevering. Problems are part of life and each endeavour in life; somebody “a Chinese person, I suspect “extraordinarily properly said that failure isn’t falling down, failure is refusing to get up after falling.
Every time you trip and fall, get up and take the subsequent small step. It’s the first of the remaining steps to success.
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