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me as a laywer
me: so you took a shower and then you heard the gun shot
witness: yes
me as a lawyer: isn’t the first cardinal rule of perm maintenance that you’re forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours after getting a perm at the risk of deactivating the immonium thygocolate
witness: i’m bald
Boyfriend bought me a dressage whip (because in all of my 13 years of horses and provincial dressage championships, I’ve never owned one bahahaha) and new gloves for my birthday. Sucky thing is that because of the nerve problems I have with my hands, I have to be careful what type of whip I…
I hold my dressage whip at the base of the handle too! I dunno why but I ind it 1000x more comfortable.
I’ve had even the most balanced of whips, and I still hold them at the base of the handle.
I JUST SOLVED ALL DRESSAGE RIDERS PROBLEMS
I’ve always had a hard time explaining watching dressage to non-equestrians. And I just came up with THE BEST explanation ever. I always have people say “I want to come watch you show,” and I have to say “It’s pretty boring” and they never understand. So here we go:
It’s like comparing little league to major league baseball. MLB is great to watch if you’re into it (and then you’re gonna find the people who find it boring no matter what), but nobody wants to watch little league unless you’re a parent. If you ride below about 3rd level, you’re effectively in little league. Nobody that doesn’t know about horses is going to want sit there and watch you. And most horse people aren’t going to want to watch either.
I play little league. You don’t want to watch until I hit the majors.
Having ridden training and 1st for a while on a multitude of green horses, and then having ridden 3rd and 4th level competitively on a grand prix gelding, let me tell you sometimes people STILL don’t want to watch/find it interesting enough to watch once you get to those levels :P
Haha, no, I complete agree. I feel like, 3rd-4th is like, High school baseball, PSG/I1 is College, and I2/GP is MLB. But I didn’t want to make it harder than it had to be.
I agree 100% haha, it’s a great analogy. The other thing is…well, some people just don’t have the patience for baseball :P
Ugh, I was schooling the PSG and nobody would even show up to my lessons. I guess my family/boyfriend just aren’t baseball people haha!
EXACTLY! So many people are like “Baseball doesn’t move quick enough for me.” HELLO, DRESSAGE
YOU PRANCE IN CIRLCES
ONLY DRESSAGE PEOPLE CAN APPRECIATE DRESSAGE
I’m not even going to lie, even with all I’ve done with dressage, I still get bored out of my skull watching tests, even if they’re the PSG/I1/I2 tests. But then again I’m ADD, so I’m less suited to watching and more suited to doing.
That being said, Fourth Level Test 3 in Canada is actually a really nifty test, and I have enjoyed watching and riding it.
Unless I’m practicing my judging skills, or watching a good friend or my trainer (or freestyles), I cannot and will not sit and watch a class of anything lower than 3rd. And even 3rd is torture.
I JUST SOLVED ALL DRESSAGE RIDERS PROBLEMS
I’ve always had a hard time explaining watching dressage to non-equestrians. And I just came up with THE BEST explanation ever. I always have people say “I want to come watch you show,” and I have to say “It’s pretty boring” and they never understand. So here we go:
It’s like comparing little league to major league baseball. MLB is great to watch if you’re into it (and then you’re gonna find the people who find it boring no matter what), but nobody wants to watch little league unless you’re a parent. If you ride below about 3rd level, you’re effectively in little league. Nobody that doesn’t know about horses is going to want sit there and watch you. And most horse people aren’t going to want to watch either.
I play little league. You don’t want to watch until I hit the majors.
Having ridden training and 1st for a while on a multitude of green horses, and then having ridden 3rd and 4th level competitively on a grand prix gelding, let me tell you sometimes people STILL don’t want to watch/find it interesting enough to watch once you get to those levels :P
Haha, no, I complete agree. I feel like, 3rd-4th is like, High school baseball, PSG/I1 is College, and I2/GP is MLB. But I didn’t want to make it harder than it had to be.
I agree 100% haha, it’s a great analogy. The other thing is…well, some people just don’t have the patience for baseball :P
Ugh, I was schooling the PSG and nobody would even show up to my lessons. I guess my family/boyfriend just aren’t baseball people haha!
EXACTLY! So many people are like “Baseball doesn’t move quick enough for me.” HELLO, DRESSAGE
YOU PRANCE IN CIRLCES
ONLY DRESSAGE PEOPLE CAN APPRECIATE DRESSAGE
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I don’t know if this is something anybody else does, but when I was competing and doing higher level dressage tests, at the end of my halt salute I would pat my horse and praise him, then instead of turning back to the long side and walking out of the ring I would continue down centre line (with…
I ALWAYS Go to C and thank my judge (And if there’s any on the long side). Not enough people do it but it was something I’ve always thought was important. Sometimes if the ring is running behind, the steward might get jerky about it but I think it’s important.
I also usually say “hello” to the judge as I ride past during my pre-test round. I never say anything other than “hello” and “thank you” though because you can get in trouble for talking to the judges.
I only say hello/good morning to the judge if they speak to me first, but I do always thank them. I do not, however, take the time to walk down to C. I don’t see the need for it, especially having worked behind the scenes at so many shows that it’s so easy for a ring to get behind. You can thank the judge just as well from X as from C, IMO. And you’re not being judged for it, so why risk making the day run late just for a common courtesy?
In all seriousness, I have about 4 Grand Prix Dressage freestyles completely planned, completely put together and ready to be ridden..
Do I ride Grand Prix Dressage?
..Pfft.. No.
This is a conversation I had with a friend the other day, so I quoted it!
(via ballerina-in-the-arena)
I don’t do this with choreography (I’ll choreograph portions though), but I do have music planned out for about 3 or 4. Definitely for my first CDI at FEI.
I could do it. But no seriously you should pull it. I want all horses I braid basically bald :P
NONE OF YOU BRATS ARE COMING WITHIN TEN FEET OF HIM WITH A PULLING COMB
WE ALREADY HAD TO BANG HIS TAIL TODAY WE’VE ENDURED ENOUGH ARAB SACRILEGE FOR ONE DAY
Maybe he’d become a real dressage horse faster if you pulled his mane.
We’re not going to bury the lead here: Bob Ross’ hair was actually straight. Just ask his longtime business partner Annette Kowalski, who knew Ross better than anyone — he had just gotten out of the Air Force, and was unsuccessfully trying to make a living as a painter, she says.
“He got this bright idea that he could save money on haircuts. So he let his hair grow, he got a perm, and decided he would never need a haircut again,” Kowalski explains.
Before he could change it back, though, the perm became his company’s logo — Ross hated it. “He could never, ever, ever change his hair, and he was so mad about that,” Kowalski says. “He got tired of that curly hair.”
But viewers never got tired of Ross or his show The Joy of Painting. With his soft, hypnotic voice, he’d bring his viewers in close as he created 30-minute masterpieces — distant mountain ranges, seascapes, forest scenes, always with those happy little trees. He’d sling his palette around, blend the titanium white paint, whisper about his life in Alaska, then gently tap his fan brush to create a canvas full of fluffy clouds. With his partly unbuttoned chambray shirt, his halo of tight curls and his soothing demeanor, Ross was a fixture on PBS.
Re-watching the show decades later — it’s now streaming on Netflix — The Joy of Painting still feels like a personal art lesson. And yet the oil painter we spent so many hours with remains a mystery. Ross led a private life and did only a few interviews during his career.
The Real Bob Ross: Meet The Meticulous Artist Behind Those Happy Trees
Photos: Bob Ross Inc.