Explaining what western riding is to English riding or non-horsey people. Everyone assumes you are a rodeo rider when you say you ride western -or when you say you do western showing there’s like this BLANK face staring at you.

At a point people have said, "so its like doing dressage with western gear on" and I just can't be bothered explaining because they still don't get it.

How do you explain our fantastic diverse sport?