Why pay to "watch your kid ride"?

OK, so now come the questions from a few parents who are headed to our clinic.

"Why should I pay $35 to audit for the weekend when I'm just coming to watch my kid ride"?

Well... it's a clinic with Lendon Gray speaking to the riders and the audience... ( no ear plugs permitted) so everyone who is in the room will learn about the sport, whether they want to learn or not... like taking kids to the movie and expecting to get in free because you're not going to watch...

It's a fund raiser, so our focus is on exactaly that. It's also the only time anyone will be able to get 16 hours of observation of Lendon, without going to her barn in NY and sitting in the rafters!

To lighten the thought... let me think of the top ten reasons to pay $35 to "watch my kid ride":::

1) You get to watch MY kid ride also! ;) and about 50 others.
2) Entertainment value! We have the Lion Country PC Quadrille team doing a humerous and one-time-only routine over lunch.
3) Perhaps you could drop your youngster off and head to the Columbia Mall! or Panera Bread? (my fav'). I think Son of Terminator III opens that weekend.
4) 200 people drive 200 miles to CT last month to sit through Lendon's Weekend Educational Experience, and they didn't even get to see ANYBODY ride!
5) It's a fund raiser and Lendon's not free.
6) We'll try to get your kid to autograph your shirt.
7) Compared to the typical dressage weekend: You normally spend the day(s) and learn nothing, except that perhaps some judge doesn't understand how well your kid rides. This is a chance to hear from Lendon (twice) and from TWO L rated judges, just what your child can do to improve, and your budding olympian can watch 49 other riders of similar skill learn from their mistakes also. Lendon's among the best! Let's learn what she knows, what she sees, and what she would recommend for success.
8) and,,, the #10 (I'll find two others later) reason to pay $35 is that when it's your kids turn to test you'll probably be muttering "OMG, I can't watch!"

Come on to Bloomsburg and enjoy!

Jeff