I was reading up on wounds and burns in horses the other day when google adventure took me on an emotional journey with a dressage mare Suki and her owner, Fran… I started reading the most recent posts when I got to the part in which Fran mentioned how she misses riding Suki and that…
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Purchasing breeches can be an excruciating experience. You’ll put a pair on and swear that they switched the mirror in the dressing room with one from a fun house. It is amazing the variety of ways a set of skin tight pants can make you look terrible. There is diaper…
Let’s start with an experiment. [if you do it please leave a comment sharing how it felt:) ] Exercise: It will only take you 2 minutes. You can sit on the floor or on your bed. Sit on your heels, upper body straight. Take your arms to your sides and move up so your are kneeling.…
Let’s say your horse or pony is heavy in your right hand…or jumps to the right of the jump most of the time…or finds it difficult to leg yield away from your left leg…what if you could tell many of your training issues by observing your horse’s feet? What if you could reflect on your…
What if the only thing that was stopping you was just an illusion…
If I offered this to you as a tutorial I bet there would be many different reactions to such action…Some of you might think: you can’t just learn how to breed a foal with two heads in your back garden, someone else might think: that’s impossible, science didn’t go as far yet, or yeah, that’s…
The weather in California is set to be warm with some sunshine and a gentle breeze. Perfect for some training I reckon. The handsome boy above is a big horse, a hunter-jumper with that great rolling ta-da-dam, clockwork canter that I have only ever seen en mass in hunters (as in, US Hunters, not UK…
The pictures below are a study of a few steps within a simple exercise: transitions within trot. The horse shown is a 4 1/2 year old warmblood (the great model for Aspire Video Library) ridden by his owner (our very brave Library case study!): Photo on the right shows Liberado S in a moment of…
Sitting trot. How do you fare in it? One of the issues we are filming for Aspire Equestrian Video Library is a process of improving a rider with good lateral stability (left to right) but comparatively weak front to back stability resulting in, what in layman terms we could call a “wavy upper body”. The…
Great post and one of the best opening quotes out there 🙂
