things trainers say

I completely forgot about some classics. I've had more trainers than I can count. Soo many different personalities and ways of saying things..

"KICK KICK KICK"
"Why aren't you kicking?!"
"Growl at him. rrrrrr"
"Why aren't you growling?!"
"Don't forget the rollback."
"Look at your jump."
"Look where you're going."
"Where are you going? Wrong jump."
"You look like you're on a swing, your leg is swinging too much."

"Heels down!" was always a constant when I was younger, my lessons from 6-12 were basically one constant mantra. Now I say it to all the kids I teach too. That and "sit on your pockets!" there's a lot of forward in the younguns.
I picked up the left/right swap from my former coach, point left but say right or vice versa. I always understood because I'm backwards too, but sometimes the faces on the others.. xD
"Don't drop your ice cream." (or adult beverage of choice for the older folks)

I have to agree that any variation of "What are you doing?" is definitely a trainer favorite for me. The explanations are usually pretty great too.

My most memorable trainer moment was when we were talking bout building "walls" for our horses, and moving body sections and feet. There were lots of number questions, and I'd just done a midterm that day.
She asked "how many feet do you have?" and we answered 'two', and then "how many feet does your horse have?" And I was so happy to have the answer I shouted "Six!" with my teammate nodding along. When asked a blank "what?" I backlogged my logic to "well if you count your feet and his feet, it's six, so close enough?" Coach started laughing so hard I thought she'd fall off her box. It became a running gag for the team that horses had six legs as long as you were riding them.

I have a tendency to let my shoulders roll forwards when I ride, so my coach will yell, "STICK YOUR BOOBS OUT" at me haha. If we're at a show she'll just say "are you a boy or a girl?" instead though lol

Ahhh, my coach has some GREAT ones.

She's famous for:

"One more round/jump!" or "Once more!"
*makes you do the thing 10 times more*

Also:
"I can walk faster than that!"

"What are you doing? Do you want me to throw my shoe at you? I will throw my shoe at you!" I have been told that she has made good on this threat more than once.

"Don't run me over! That's *insert Verdana's real name*'s job!" (It's a running joke at our yard because I've almost run her over with my horse more times than anybody else at the yard)

After any particularly good lesson:
"That..." expects praise "... is a VERY nice little horse."

"Aaand walk!" *everyone relaxes* "Who said you're finished? Feet in your stirrup leathers. Come on!" *mutual groaning*

Ooooooo. My coach is VERY classy with her quotes/lines

"Why are you going in slow motion?"

she says this to my friend to help her over fences "Tell me where you are looking, looking, looking......" *friend looks at the jump but says straight* "Agh! You cheated! You looked down!"

"giving you the two time canter rule again...." *groans from me and mer* "Stop waiting so long! Go! Go! Go, go,GO!" *struggles to push pony to canter from walk.....fast trots down the arena* "uggggggg. 'insert silver name'" *hands crop with amusment*

"growl at her! growL. GroWL. GROWL! Rrrrrrrrrr get up pony!"

"stop looking at your pony. I know she is pretty, but she doesn't need your eyes burning a hole in her neck" XD

"leg! Support, support! " *pony refuses. Silver loses stirrups and smiles sheepishly*
Silver: oops. Coach: "yeh. Mega oops. Trot her to it. Now. Do it. " *trots pony who stops again only to rocket launch straight over it from a stand still XD* "uh huh. She wouldve done tha the first time correctly now wouldn't she?"

Buttt I love her. XD and her famous sayings :)

Last edited on 2016-06-20 at 16:42:09 by Silver

These are hilarious!

"If you look to the ground that's were you're going to end up!"
"Don't look at the horse, he's not going anywhere"
Instead of 3 2 1 before a jump she says, "jumping-position-now!"
"relax your back"
"don't ask him, tell him!"
"get him to use his hind legs"
"get mad!"
"look where you're going"
"More leg!!!"
*when a horse bucks* "leanbackleanbackleanback... good!"
"thumbs up, elbows down"
"aaaaaaand trot"
*when she falls* "well, I hadn't fallen off in a long time, it was overdue"
when you fall two times in a short time "one more, they always come in threes!"
she also loves to say "knock on wood"

she's got a bunch more, but I can't think of any from the top of my head xD

My trainer is pretty much my second mom, I sleep at her house from time to time and spend around ten hours with her everyday helping her with lessons, sooo there's plenty of non-horse-related ones as well. Her most frequent one:

her: "You wanna eat at Mc. Donalds?"
me: "You have celiac disease..."
her: "I'll just scrape off the bread"
*massages me at 11pm because she can't sleep because her stomach is killing her xD*

"TROT TROT TROT KEEP HER GOING!" To the beat of a trot.
"Come over here....halt...loosen the reins... (Manipulates arms to correct position)....SEEE?!?"
"Pull HARD on that right rein! See what happens"
"Goooood!"
"SIT UP SIT UP!" (To the beat of a canter) and to go with it: "FIVE FOOT EIGHT, FIVE FOOT EIGHT!!" or "MACHO GIRL! YOU ARE MACHO GIRL!!!!!!"
"USE that inside leg..."
"Feel that?"
"Now go down the long side, AND KEEP THAT PONY!"

Havent ridden for a while... But I still have the haunting sound of my trainer's voice screeching, "INSIDE LEG!"

"heels down! further! FURTHER!"
"Put your elbows back!!"
"CONTACT!!!!"
"cluck! louder!"
"I can walk faster than that!"
"shorten your reins!"
"KICK KICK KICK!"
"go through X, not around it"
"growl at her. grrr!"
"wiggle wiggle half halt"
"I said *half* halt, not halt and start backing up"
"foward!! make her go FOWARD!!"
"come grab the whip/crop"
"sit on your pockets"
"legs back!!"
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!?!"

my trainer is veryy energetic... haha

"heels down! further! FURTHER!"
"Put your elbows back!!"
"CONTACT!!!!"
"cluck! louder!"
"I can walk faster than that!"
"shorten your reins!"
"KICK KICK KICK!"
"go through X, not around it"
"growl at her. grrr!"
"wiggle wiggle half halt"
"I said *half* halt, not halt and start backing up"
"foward!! make her go FOWARD!!"
"come grab the whip/crop"
"sit on your pockets"
"legs back!!"
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!?!"

my trainer is veryy energetic... haha

(we're working on perfecting my posting trot atm)
"Thrust!"
"More Thrust!"
"MORE Thrust!"
"THRUST!"
"good."

story behind the quotes- i was riding a very green pony (12.2 hands) bareback at my iea barn and she told me to jump him around, after each jump he'd try to buck me off- and although i never fell, i ended up above his withers numerous times

''DONT FALL OFF! DONT LET HIM KNOW HE CAN GET YOU OFF"
" aww he's so spunky, look at him ''
" just go jump something, i dont know"
"wow he's full of it today"
"good job"
"look at him go!! *laughs*"

"Get after him."
*after I whip and spur him* "THANK YOU!"
"He's going to turn into a llama, but it's okay"
"Don't let him turn into a llama."

Other trainer (who is more exciting):
"STEERING!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!"
"LEG!"
"DO NOT LET HIM HIT ME OR I WILL BEAT YOU WITH THIS CROP!"
"There we go!"

"KICK THE POOP *she doesn't say poop lol* OUT OF HIM!"
"leg... Leg... LEG... LEEGGGGGGG!!!!"
"Remember one thing; squeeze like toothpaste."
"What the heck was that? Go around and do it again."
"Seriously... what the heck are you doing?"
"Sit back... 1... 2... 3... JUMP."
"Good!"
"Good pony."
"Good horse. If I were Alfie *my horse* I would've thrown you for doing that."
"Um... no."
"Outside rein... inside rein... half halt... outsi - OUTSIDE REIN!"
"So I feel like he's drifting too much."
"I mean... I guess you could do gymkhana with him...??"
"KEEP YOUR HEAD STILL OVER THE VERTICAL LIKE YOU'RE BALANCING BOOKS ON YOUR HEAD!"
Ahhh instructors are great lol

I've just recently moved to a new barn, and after a few weeks, this is what I've gotten from the barn manager.
Note: My lesson horse is known to be very stubborn.

"Click. Kick. Click. Kick. KICK!"
"I WANT TO HEAR YOU KICK HER!"
"Penny... what is your problem?" (Penny is my lesson horse)
"Oh..Oh! Oh my god, I'm so proud of you!"
"That was just so perfect."
"I just look at you... and ugh.. you've improved so much."
"Go girl!"
"I would get you a crop... but meh."
"Wow, is she actually behaving today?"
"Don't let her push you around!"
"How are you feeling?" Me: Like jello "Haaaaah."
"You need more muscles..."
--Me trying to pull Penny to the center of arena-- "Just pull her." (Gee thanks)
"Looks like its just me and you today." (Me in my head: Oh god..)
"I know you like looking at her neck, but stop!"
"KICK HE- Oh... potty break."