Hello Helen! It’s a pleasure to help you and I hope you will find my thoughts useful. Congratulations on entering the challenge too 🙂 My reason for doing the bloggers challenge in this format is so we can all learn from each other. Analysing issues of different riders on different horses is very beneficial for instructors…
The Aspire monthly bloggers challenge is here again! Here are the rules for the weekend 🙂 If you would like me to cast an eye on a problem you are having with your riding and give you a mini-training plan to work on the issue, be brave and do the following: film 1-2 min of…
Cheerful, light post today after a couple of heavy ones! My favourite, quick ish breakfast – home – made muesli and freshly squeezed juice. Both are seriously tasty as well as being one of the perfect energy boosters known to earth. It’s always been the only thing that kept me going through 12 hours teaching…
I came across an interesting article today thanks to Katie’s blog “Reflections on Riding”. In her post “Failed Delivery Systems”  she discusses Catherine Haddad Staller’s latest article on Chronicle of The Horse. Catherine says: […]”What finally irked me into writing this blog is this: Our trainers need more knowledge about how to train the basics—not just…
Hello everyone! There’s been a few quiet days on the blog due to various things taking over my time but the daily posts are back now. Meet Wanessa, the brave new-ish guinea pig on my Aspire Video Library project and her 10 year old coloured mare which I will just call J. as her name…
Great video discussing and demonstrating the differences between horses working with tension in the back vs horses working with relaxed back muscles:
