How to Excel At Being Average

Averageness OK, so the title of my blog indicates where I am in the grand scheme - average.  It's nothing to do with modesty or lack of confidence, it's just the way it is and I am comfortable with it.  Why?  Because it means I can improve and my efforts are not for naught!  I may not be able to get over 70% at prelim yet, and I may still be a wet drip at jumping, but I'm trying and I reckon that's what it's all about Just because you're not as good as Mary King or John Whitaker or Charlotte Dujardin doesn't mean you can't get out there and have fun! Demonstrations Having said that, who'd have thought I would ever need a blog section entitled 'demonstrations'!  The word is defined as: a practical exhibition and explanation of how something works or is performed.  This means people will be watching us to see how it's done.  Blimey.  Tory and I are demonstrating pairs dressage to music at the next Moulton College Quest event on

  Tam Thompson I  started riding at age 3 or 4, having worn my non-horsey parents down since starting to talk, and I am afraid that once horses are in your blood it’s for life!  I worked with horses for a few years, on a polo yard, but have generally had ‘proper’ jobs to pay for my increasingly expensive equestrian habit.  As a child and teenager I could not have been less interested in dressage – that being the thing you had to do so they’d let you ride cross-country - however, I had 15 years out of the saddle, and on coming back to horses discovered that dressage is actually really rewarding, even at the lower levels.  Me and Beau have been a team for almost 2 years now and have played at dressage, showing, jumping, sidesaddle, camps, RC training and quadrille and we love it all.   The main thing for me, these days and in my youth, is to have fun.  Try everything.  Do your best and appreciate the small things.  I hope I can help readers see that even if you come last in every comp