How many times have you gotten off a horse after your lesson or ride thinking about something that really worked well or made your horse feel great? Or perhaps vice versa, how many times have you finished the lesson or a ride thinking it didn’t go as well as you hoped? Have you told yourself…
Do you have a great product or service that might appeal as a gift to a grassroots, ambitious, improvement driven rider who takes lessons, loves to learn, loves to be around horses and leads horse happy lifestyle? From 1st November until 24th December, I will post weekly gift guides posts and would love you to…
The fact that dental problems can lead to contact issues and mouth discomfort is a pretty common knowledge among horse owners but having witnessed a great improvement in bit acceptance in a pony with tartar build up I thought I would make a quick note about it 🙂 The pony had mild head shaking issues…
I love to work on good surfaces, who doesn’t, but the many voices of riders who have their lessons with me in a large field at Aspire’s little base while we are awaiting the new arena to be constructed saying how difficult it is to ride on uneven ground, made me feel grateful for this…
pro·pri·o·cep·tion n. The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself. [Latin proprius, one’s own; see per1 in Indo-European roots + (re)ception.] STEP 1. Warm up: about 10min (5min if your horse is very settled and happy to get going) Start from walking with your horse around the arena…
Just a quick-ish post today on something that I’ve been pondering on for the last few years when analysing different teaching methods and tweaking my own. I am going to hazard a statement that the only truly difficult and time consuming skill of all the riding skills is the development of a functional and horse…
I have just returned from teaching on Aspire Grassroots clinic at Lindrick Livery and what a great weekend that was! I hope the pictures tell the story well and that you enjoy the wonderful set of them taken by Ceri of Pure Essence Photography (Check her website HERE if you would like to book a photo…
