When The Student is Ready to Proceed

The child rides beautifully. Even though nobody really taught her anything. Then you ask for the next thing, a more advanced movement, and it is as though she cannot hear you. You might assume she isn't trying hard enough. There is another explanation, and it has nothing to do with effort.

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You have taught a young rider who could do everything. Light, balanced, matching the horse without ever being told how. And then you asked for something more, and she could not hear you.

So you explained it again. You explained it differently. You slowed it down, and you broke it apart, and nothing landed, and somewhere in there you began to wonder whether the failure was yours. It wasn't. Something is happening inside that child that has nothing to do with effort or talent or your teaching. Please note, though, there has always been a way to know when she is ready for what comes next. How many instructors have you ever seen check?

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