Another great question...
How do you mark a higher handicap player who is faster and more agile than you?
Firstly, there's is no quick fix to this...
But out of preference, always mark up handicap to handicap, instead of marking the higher goal players.
And then start working on the tips in our answers in the video.
How Do You Mark a Higher Handicap Player?
Transcription:
So, the next one is how do you mark a higher handicapped player than you who is faster and more agile? Okay. So, that goes back to last week's video that we talked about, the ride offs and that kind of stuff. Because to be honest, if you are a zero goaler playing against the five goaler, he's going to be riding horses that are probably a lot quicker and he can play at a speed that you can't match.
So, the only time you really going to match that, is in a sort of in a knock-in or something like that, or where somebody holds the ball. And he's, looking back at the ball, now make your ride off and beat him while he's not running. Because once he gets mobile, you are not going to live with him. It's that simple.
And that's why for me, I talk about equal handicaps marking each other, because to put a 0 goaler against the five goaler is just, it's a disaster waiting to happen. You very seldom, unless you are one of those people, that's a zero goaler that is an excellent horseman. Got great horses. And your forte is marking rather than hitting. Okay.
Then maybe you can do that. But if you are just learning and getting through, you've got to catch that guy, when he's not looking at you, in a situation where he is not running. You've got to beat him before he's aware. Otherwise you're not going to. Yeah, I think I'm going to have a go at answering that question.
And you know, if you're wanting to start marking the high goal players, you've got to first improve your riding, and second improve your horses. Because that is one of the things that's that makes them good, is that they ride better than most of us. And they all have better of horses than most of us. And if you are not matching them on that level,
you, you never really going to be able to match them on the field. And then, you know, just, it goes back to what you were showing inside the workshop session that we released on, Wednesday, the first part. And that's just getting better at, at your ride-offs, but it's your whole 360 vision on the field and being aware of what's going on all the time.
And so, to actually answer that question, you've got to be improving yourself as a rider and your horses, and then your awareness all the time. And it's not necessarily something that you can just make difference on the field from now to next week. It's something that you've got to improve overall and in your, your whole game. My answer to that question is I don't have an abracadabra answer.
The question for me is kind of wanting a quick fix. It's wanting, how do I mark high goal player? That's kind of better mounted and, you know, five goals when I'm zero. We don't have a quick fix to that. And I think people must be really, really aware that this whole workshop is not a quick fix. It's a step by step process as anything,
is in sport. You know, as you say, Improve your riding, and improve your horses improve, your ball skills, all of those kinds of things. And it's a step by step process. You're not going to just get it right. Just because of something I say in a question and answer like this. 100%
