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Location: NeverLand | So I am here at a high school rodeo. I had one of my students tell me that a lady told her that when she is running barrels not to sit for her rate spot. She need to get up in her sturups like a jockey running at a horse race. I say between your barrel yeah get up a little and off there back, But to sit at your rate spot. Opinions anyone.. Maybe I'm mis understanding her thinking |
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I just read the headlines
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| I don't think you are wrong. That is how I learned and what I have learned at every barrel clinic I have gone to - Wanda Bush, Ed, Lynn Mckenzie and Molly Powell. |
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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | You are not wrong. If you do not sit in the turn, your horse will not rate for the turn and it is a good possibility that you are getting dumped when your horse turns. |
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| Obviously, this woman has never really ran a high calibur horse. Honestly, could you just imagine riding forward right to the barrel on a horse like Louie or Stingray? You'd be face planted into the fence. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | Unless.......you have a super ratey turning machine that wants to rate to soon, pulling barrels down. |
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| I just leaned forward before a turn and my horse was making one of his 1D runs when he turned out from under my 4D body. I wasNOT up like a jockey. When you sit you tell the horse to rate. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| ThreeCorners - 2016-08-20 8:12 PM Unless.......you have a super ratey turning machine that wants to rate to soon, pulling barrels down.
Makes me wonder if this child was running a really ratey horse then, and the advice was to keep the feet moving. Good point. |
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Location: NeverLand | RidenFly - 2016-08-19 9:29 PM
ThreeCorners - 2016-08-20 8:12 PM Unless.......you have a super ratey turning machine that wants to rate to soon, pulling barrels down.
Makes me wonder if this child was running a really ratey horse then, and the advice was to keep the feet moving. Good point.
This lady has never seen her make a run before. That's why I thought it was a little strange |
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| "... from under my 4D body."
Sorry for laughing, but that made me chuckle :p |
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 Worst.Housekeeper.EVER.
Location: Missouri | Wylene Wilson teaches this. Two handed and never sit. It's the only time I've heard it. |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | why a lady was giving your student advice when you're her paid trainer (I'm assuming paid since you said student) boggles my mind. |
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Location: NeverLand | casualdust07 - 2016-08-19 11:25 PM
why a lady was giving your student advice when you're her paid trainer (I'm assuming paid since you said student) boggles my mind.
Exactly! I was pretty frustrated. I guess that lady was older and had to put her two cents into everyone's business |
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Location: Florida | Before I retired I would help anyone who asked, but never until they asked. Listen to people, and take free, unasked for advise for what it cost, nothing.
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| In no ways do i mean this to be catty, i love wylene wilsons wild persona, did she have fast horses when she barrel raced? |
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 Horsey Gene Carrier
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | Sound more like someone trying to 'mess' with the child to give their own a better chance at placing.
Seen it happen and had it done to me as well.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | streakysox - 2016-08-19 10:22 PM
I just leaned forward before a turn and my horse was making one of his 1D runs when he turned out from under my 4D body. I wasNOT up like a jockey. When you sit you tell the horse to rate.
I was a tad late once sitting before first- kissed Smoke on his left ear before I got my old body back in the saddle-seat. Not pretty! I don't know about Extreme Wylene, but I prefer to sit out the turn- |
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Location: NeverLand | kasaj2000 - 2016-08-21 10:52 AM
Sound more like someone trying to 'mess' with the child to give their own a better chance at placing.
Seen it happen and had it done to me as well.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I went there in my head. The lady was handing out her business cards to everyone and there dog. Kinda weird |
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Worst.Housekeeper.EVER.
Location: Missouri | tin can - 2016-08-20 9:05 PM In no ways do i mean this to be catty, i love wylene wilsons wild persona, did she have fast horses when she barrel raced?
For some reason I thought she might have been an AQHA champion?
I audited the clinic and rode my colt for a few hours. It was not a barrel racing clinic, but she ran a couple of patterns on the host's NICE finished horses. She made comments about barrel racers & barrel racing after.
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | If this was a student of mine, I would have wanted to talk to this lady in person and be sure in what she was saying. Some times things get misunderstood and then we start thinking the worst. 
Edited by Southtxponygirl 2016-08-21 6:20 PM
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Location: Louisiana | RocketPilot - 2016-08-19 8:33 PM
You are not wrong. If you do not sit in the turn, your horse will not rate for the turn and it is a good possibility that you are getting dumped when your horse turns.
Heck I can barely stay on mine when I do sit.  |
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