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13 Going on 30 (2004)
IMDB rating: 6.10
Plot: It’s 1987, and geeky Jenna wants to be popular. After her 13th birthday party goes awry, Jenna wishes she could just be 30 instead – only to wake up and discover that she’s flash-forwarded 17 years. Now a sexy, successful magazine editor, Jena finds out that being an adult isn’t necessarily all it’s cracked up to be.
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i find 13 Going on 30 iPod/iPhone version and buy
Directors: Winick Gary
Actors: Ruffalo Mark,Serkis Andy,Reeves Phil,Ball Samuel,Marquette Sean,Grifasi Joe,Comedy,Fantasy,Romance,
What do you think my riding ability is?
Be perfectly frank, I know I can always work to be better, but I have never asked this of anyone before. I also know thats its not what you have done – its what you can do, and soon I’ll post a video of myself riding and you can judge off of that. But I’ll give you my life history and what I have done thus far – to this very night, you can say from there. Honestly – I would prefer people that are in the horse world that can rightfully judge rather then people inking for a few points. I am looking for riding ability, but am giving you my horselife history. To make sure I get genuine answers, please respond WHY you chose the ability that you did.
So here it is, I have been riding for 13 years. I am currently 24. I did not start when I was a 2 year old tied down in someones saddle. No, I started by going to science camps focused on horses, learning the biology of them. Then off to 8 years of lessons in english – 6 of which were of hard core english training. The "ride with a whip behind your back until your elbows get in the right place" abuse sort of thing.
I have been without lessons or training (besides what I have self learned) for 5 years. Within those 5 years I have worked on the ground with horses for 3 of the years teaching therapy riding. I have leased an OTTB which I had to drop the lease since he was deathly afraid of the mounting block and I only got to spend about 30 mins in the saddle with him. Speaking of mounting blocks, I need one. I have one really bad knee, and it happens to be the one thats in the stirrup and just can’t handle that kinda bend to get into the saddle. I can mount in western, but english poses some difficulties. I have been riding partners and done trail rides with people with their horses.I also lease a TWH, who I spent all of last summer training her for the cue to canter. Yes, I know some TWH don’t canter – but she does, she just didn’t have a cue for it. I picked up exercising other peoples horses through word of mouth, one woman told me she liked the way I handled Ebby (TWH) and I was recommended by the woman I leased from to her friends.
I ride both on the trails, in the arena, english is what I have the most training in, I don’t jump except if its over trail hazards. I know dressage, but don’t often utilize it, I can lunge a horse. but I can also ride western with neck reins. I thrive off of setting a goal and completing it. I have shown once, didn’t like it. I can use leg cues, I can sit and post a trot, with stirrups, without, bareback, though, posting bareback is just an oxymoron. I feel more comfortable when a horse is acting up and bucking to be bareback then to be in a saddle. If I come off, I’m back on.
Currently I am in college – which means, I can’t afford to pay to lease or ride a well behaved horse. So it leads to me doing exercise riding around school. At first it was bit diffcult to find places to ride at, so I worked for the therapy riding and a horse rescue, but now in my third year, I actually have an option and riding facilities and horses to choose from. Who knew a horseless rider could go from no horse to too much horse and no time.
Last year it was green broke 3 year olds, and weekly we took them out on the trails and rode them through scary situations. This year it was Friesians who got blue ribbons while driving but were hardly rode, and now that its gotten colder I have had to move to less pampered horses and I ride those that have only been rode a few times this year, and those who have gotten away with little kids.
Which brings me to today – I work specifically with the most misbehaved out of the bunch, a bucky haflinger, who will buck and kick whenever she doesnt want to go. She is also overweight to the point that no saddle fits her since he withers are missing entirely. So, I ride her bareback. When she bucks and kicks its easier for me to sit them out. She has only entirely lost me twice, once when I was hopping on from the ground, and I biffed and landed funny, she ran and bucked and I came off with a hoof in my leg (good thing not my head, which my helmet was attached to) The other time was tonight – when I as so sore from working with others horses that when she took off I decided to bail and just lunge her instead. So what about these other horses? The woman that I am riding for had some unexpected teenagers come and ride – but they claimed that they all have had years and years of experience, but the horses couldn’t see this, so the owner asked me to work out the horses so the girls could see how its done, mind you they were little s**ts, and a few of them kicked up a fuss and one bucked. After three hours of that I got back to my little project and I just was dead, but got to eat home made chilli and now am in bed with this question racking at my brain.
to sum it up. I have rode a variety of horses, up to this point in the year I have rode 26 horses All with different training abilities, styles, ages, an
bareback details: can canter also sitting bareback, can manage bareback on trails in all gaits.
wow i wanna be as good as you one day and ima 13!!! wow u are amazing…total advanceed rider!
ruby11_96 | Nov 21, 2009
you sound ammaaaazing!!!!!! keep it up girl!! im in awe of you (:
moo.moo X | Nov 21, 2009
Wow, you are a pretty good rider. I would say you are in the "advanced/experineced" category. You have been riding for a long time, ridden many kinds of horses, worked with difficult horses, and have actually taken lessons.
One Bad A$$ Mistake America | Nov 21, 2009
I would say that you are certainly an experienced rider. Does that make you an advanced rider? Well, it would depend on who you ask. It sounds like you are good at riding difficult horses, and have a good seat. But do you have the formal schooling to ride a horse that’s highly trained in any discipline and get the best performance out of him?
Everything is relative. In a more formal lesson setting, you might not be considered an advanced rider. For example, at the dressage barn where I ride, you really are not considered an advanced rider until you are riding at least 3rd level competitively. You say that you "know dressage," but I don’t know if you can ride at that level. Then again, I doubt any of the upper level dressage riders at the barn would be brave enough to ride their horses bareback at all, much less canter and go out on trails bareback. So who’s really the "advanced" one?
horse lover | Nov 21, 2009
Interview With A Vampire <= HATED IT 
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