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Riding is a bit like the old fable of the tortoise and the hare: slow and steady wins out in the end.

I often caution my overly ambitious students about cutting corners. “The fast way is the slow way,” I warn them.

If you skip things in the beginning, or try to move up through the divisions too quickly, you may start out ahead of the others. But, you will inevitably end up backsliding, and you will have to backtrack to learn the parts you missed. You will ultimately spend more time unlearning bad habits and forming good ones than you would have spent learning the good habits to begin with.

Equitation is about mastering the pieces of riding and then putting those pieces together in a unified, effective whole. The whole process takes time.