There are so many interesting, discussion provoking thoughts that come to us in a moment of clarity just to escape us like dreams forgotten in the mornings so I decided to try a little series of Thoughtful Thursdays this year and see how we go 🙂 Today’s thought came to me after a conversation with…
Great weekend here running grassroots clinic near Warsaw, then just over two hour journey to make it in time for a client in Lodz. Three more weeks in Poland before returning back to London. I really hope UK rain moves on and I won’t have to buy a canoe to get to the yards! Lovely…
I am preparing a short video spanning 12 weeks of one rider’s training on Aspire’s START Programme and I thought I would give you all a little preview 🙂 This rider purchased the 3 months of training which is the time frame of the START Programme if the rider wants to cover all planned lessons…
Last week I was a part of a very special training for two days. The trainer is a well known Swedish rider called Emma Emanuelsson. It was so much fun and I learned a lot! We did not jump so much on the first day and focused on flatwork instead. The training consisted mostly of…
I won’t exaggerate if I say that 90% of horse owners I met, including myself, have said or thought at least once, that they are not good enough for their horse or for riding in general. Not brave enough, not skilled enough, not coordinated enough, don’t have enough feel, maybe even don’t earn enough or…
To say I am excited to shake up the grassroots lessons’ delivery prevalent at many riding schools is an understatement (not all riding schools mind you, I will mention there are some great ones!). I strongly believe that if the very basics are taught exceptionally well there will be more sound horses around, many more…
Bruises, contusions, lacerations and abrasions, wounds, injuries of joints and bones, fractures and many other ailments related to the practice of sports are not only tedious, tiring, often seriously threatening our health and even life but what is equally important prevent comfortable continuation of our passion, hobby or profession. One of the most trauma prone…
One Sunday afternoon in 2006 or 2007 I was teaching this schoolgirl who was also a helper at the riding school I freelanced at at the time. We had this troublesome pony to exercise and she was the only kid who was happy to get on the mare but also the only person I wanted…
