I get it. We all want the best for our horses and sometimes we use different training methods. What works for one horse, doesn’t work for another and all that. However, with all the world wide web education, with coaching becoming more and more professional, with training becoming more and more focused on equine soundness…
Keep and eye on Aspire website and You Tube channel…:) A new, exciting Aspire service is coming your way!
Huge thank you for all the entires to the “Perfect Mind:Perfect Ride” book Give Away. The winner is: Tanja from www.dressagehafl.com (please check your emails! 🙂 ) It was so hard to chose from many really lovely entires and I so wish I had several books to give away! I hope you’ll enjoy reading the book Tanja and…
There’s a thread on British forum Horse & Hound that has been making it’s way around the internet this week about an incident with a KEP helmet and subsequent customer service. If you haven’t seen it, go read it here. Be forewarned, it’s a really long thread. If you aren’t really interested in devoting that…
How do you become a successsful rider? I’ve been asked this question many times and it’s never easy to come up with an answer. The rider, the horse, the training, the facilities, the support team – eventually all these elements need to come together to form a whole. And yet, I’m convinced that it all…
Many riders and instructors struggle with costs of training and Continued Professional Development (CPD) so today I would like to chat about a possibly most underused and undervalued training option that is available to all those who are on a budget but are wiling to put some effort in. You can call whatever you like…
On the 5th of May 2014 I received an email with this opening line (I hope Nigel isn’t going to kill me for quoting him! 😉 : Wiola, I’ve looked at a number of riding schools and they mostly seem to stick you on a horse and let you get on with it. From what…
The Aspire blog posts about contact, whether about how not to pull on the reins or improving a forward thinking hand have been incredibly popular this year so here is yet another suggestion, albeit quite unusual, for an exercise on those “hands that just don’t feel”… The exercise has some very good results with a…
Alison and Gejzer over a simple cavaletti exercise in walk – he takes the “no touching the rails” very seriously 😉 Agata and Galka – here in a self carriage exercise in a very short trot leg yielding towards me. Testing rider’s suppleness and coordination of aids. Short session with 4 years old PRE mare…
