Flossy is well known to many on the British Dressage Forum as a teller of interesting stories and perhaps the odd joke or two. We have selected a few tales for your pleasure.
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Sport Psychology and relationship
I wonder if any body ever noticed the duel personalities that most dressage Divas posses . Its not only that each Diva has two sides to her but these sides are completely different from each other.
Normal encounter in normal life will hardly reveal these two different personalities with in a one Diva, it is only dressage and its associated activities , such as training , competing , owning a dressage horse or being married to a Dressage Husband that will bring to the surface this anomaly situation of duel personalities .
For example a dressage trainer at his wits end, with a pupil inability while riding to maintain a regular consistent rhythm and clear tempo , in order to defuse some tension created as a result of intense lesson , the trainer applies the personal touch and inquires what does the student do in their other life when not attempting to do do dressage , the incomprehensible answer was “ I am a musician with the London philharmonic orchestra”.
Or the ballet dancer who is so rigid stiff in the saddle resembling a telegraph pole while on stage can perform the most intricate physical maneuverers imaginable.
The possibilities are endless but the one that puzzles me most is the Dressage Diva that in real life is a successful high flier who runs a multi national corporation, she rubs shoulders with the movers and shakers of this world intimidated by no one but prior to a BD intro halt/walk test , she declares to any one in hearing distance, how nervous she is and frightened from the elderly lady sitting in a car at the bottom of the arena.
In the old days one had to deal with these major in securities on ones own, basically we just had to tough it out , now a days thanks to the BEF and UK sport, emotional and psychological help is available for every one , sport psychologists, hypnosis therapies and others are there to advise prop and support .
A Dressage Husband enquired with another man with similar predicament , how come the other mans Dressage Diva is so confidence in her test riding , to which the reply was “she learnt from her sport therapist how to handle stress full situations, before a dressage test she locks herself in the horse box stands in front of the mirror and recite to her self IT WILL BE OK , IT WILL BE OK IT IS ONLY A DRESSAGE JUDGE and we all noticed her recent results IT WORKS” he concluded.
Same night the Dressage Diva noticed that her husband is spending longer then usual in the bath room before retiring to bed , curiously she looked through the key hole and noticed her husband standing in front of the mirror mumbling to himself “ IT WILL BE OK ,IT WILL BE OK , ITS ONLY THE WIFE”