Q: Western-style riding tends to be a bit easier than any of the English styles. You use a bigger saddle, making it easier to stay on the horse. Plus, you don't have as much to coordinate when guiding the horse as you do in English. You can ride western-style up trails, for instance, after a quick tutorial. In addition, you can enter competitions with western, such as barrel racing, reining, and cutting. While English disciplines are more difficult in the beginning, you commit the movements to muscle memory fairly quickly. After that, you can ride English or western with very little difficulty, while converting from western to English is a bit harder. Plus, if you want to try dressage or jumping, for instance, you'll need to learn English style. Many state parks and stables offer short group trail rides, and they generally offer guidance for beginners. You'll get a short tutorial on western-style riding, and then you can spend a few hours riding through nature. That will give you an idea of whether you like this style of riding and want to pursue something more competitive or just do it casually. If you're just trying to get a feel for the basics of one discipline, even a single lesson can be helpful. Check your area for stables or ask someone you know who rides if they know of lessons nearby. Call around to see what kind of classes and lessons each places offers. Group lessons are generally cheaper, which allows you to try out several different styles without breaking the bank. While individual lessons are more expensive, they make it easier for you to learn the proper way to ride. If you want to try competitive horse events, you may want to start taking individual lessons to gain more experience. Look for stables that specialize in the areas you'd like to try, such as jumping or dressage. If you have your own horse, you may be tempted to try out several disciplines in a short period. However, if you try too many styles or disciplines too quickly, your horse may become confused. Riding a horse already trained in the discipline you're interested allows you to get a feel for it without confusing your horse. Later, you can train your horse for that discipline if you'd like.
A: Learn western first if you want to ride casually. Start with English-style if you plan to get more serious about riding. Find a trail ride just to get a feel for western riding. Look for group lessons in your area to try different styles more cheaply. Check for 1-on-1 lessons if you want to get more serious. Ride a horse trained in the discipline you'd like to try.

Q: You'll have to go a locality where you can fish for Alligator gar, for starters. That means packing up and heading south to the lower Mississippi river and the Gulf of Mexico. Places in Louisiana like the Henderson Swamp and Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans have Gator gar. In Texas, try the Colorado, Trinity, Guadeloupe, Sabine, or other large rivers or Lake Livingston. Alligator gar spawn in the spring, around April, but the best time to look for them is in the summer in July or August or whenever is hottest. Concentrate on slack water or sloughs. Gator gar like to hang out in slow waters and especially like to congregate in deep holes near shallower water, where they can surface to feed. Keep your eyes open for large river bends that naturally create deep holes surrounded by sandbars. Alternately, you might try an oxbow lake. These are lakes that were once bends in a large river but silted over, became cut off from the main stream, and are slack water except for during floods. Alligator gars are extremely large and will need very heavy gear. Growing up to 200 pounds or more, with sharp teeth, you'll need to be well prepared and to have a clear plan for what to do when (or if) you hook one. Most people use a large circle hook attached to a steel leader as a rig this is because the fish is generally pretty hard to hook. Some people use a treble hook, however. You'll want to have a stiff composite rod with pretty robust-strength test line. A typical strength is anywhere from 30 to 100 pounds and a reel capable of spinning out 150 to 200 yards. Bait up with a small fish like a whole, descaled mullet. Other people will use live bait like shiners, scad, carp, or perch. Cast into the deeper areas, as this is where a gator gar will most likely find your bait. Gar like to swim away once they have taken the bait, so allow it to take a bit of line before setting your hook. Don't set the hook too early. Otherwise, you will hook the fish in a poor place or dislodge the hook entirely. Wait for about seven second after the bobber and line take off, then set the hook. Pull hard and perhaps several times, as the setting will require a good deal of force. Once you've got it on the line, try to tire out the fish. Being so big, alligator gars are a tough fight and can easily injure you with either their body or sharp teeth. Slowly bring the fish in, avoiding logs and other obstructions. Do not try to pull the fish aboard a boat unless it is completely exhausted. If may be useful to use a gill gaff in this instance to position the gar's head away from others on the boat. Because they are so potentially dangerous, many fishermen advise against fishing for gar unless you plan to kill them. Use extra caution if you choose to release the fish. Make sure to bring along a de-hooker or pliers in order to remove the hook, if you are planning to catch and release, as well as protective gloves and arm protection.
A: Head south. Look for prime habitat. Bring heavy duty gear. Work the deep pools. Exhaust the fish.

Q: Though distance is different than displacement, resultant displacement problems will specify how many "feet" or how many "meters" an object has traveled. You will use these units of measurement to calculate displacement, or how far out of position the object is based on its original point. The resultant displacement formula is written as: S = x+y. "S" stands for displacement. X is the first direction that the object is traveling and Y is the second direction that the object is traveling. If your object only travels in one direction, then Y = 0. An object can only travel in two directions maximum, since moving along the north/south or east/west axes will be considered neutral movement. Use a ruler to make straight lines from point to point. Also remember to connect your starting point to your end point using a straight line. This is the displacement we will be calculating. For example, if an object travels east 300 feet and north 400 feet, it will form a right triangle. AB will form the first leg of the triangle and BC will form the second leg. AC will form the hypotenuse of the triangle, and its value will be the amount of the object's displacement. In this example, the two directions are "east" and "north." Now that you know the two directions your object is traveling in, input the values into their respective variables. For example, x = 300 and y = 400. Your formula should look like this: S = 300 + 400. Square 300 and 400 first, then add them, and then find the square root of that sum. For example: S = 90000 + 160000. S = 250000. S = 500. You now know that displacement is equal to 500 feet.
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Use the resultant displacement formula when units of distance are used to specify your initial and final location. Connect the points based on order of movement and label them from A-Z. Input the direction values for x and y. Compute the formula using the order of operations.