Day 2: The Horse – Body and Movement Task: Assess your horse's movement and physical condition. Identify your horse's strongest gait or exercise, and specify an area you would like to improve or find challenging. Take into account any conformational issues, previous injuries, or other risks, and evaluate how your horse's ...
Day 5: Summary Task: Bring together your findings from the previous days. Summarise the key areas for improvement and note any resources or support you may need going forward. Use this summary to help plan your next steps in strengthening your partnership with your horse. Look at the findings of task 1, has this given yo...
Day 3: Rider Task: Reflect on your own role as a rider, manager, and partner. What are your strengths, and what areas could benefit from further development? This could include riding skills, training knowledge, mental challenges, fitness or weight, or even time management. We as riders (and carers) of our horse influenc...
This webinar is part of 4 webinars to get ready for your upcoming endurance season. This is the first in the series.
In this one we look back on our previous season and all your work in that year to find how everything went, look at weak links we can find in our horse, ourselves and possibly our circumstances and come up with an action plan to work and improve on these in the winter months and during our conditioning phase.
This is the third in a new series of articles in which we will investigate the quality aspect of training and how to maintain a healthy, sound, and happy equine athlete. The first article touched on the basics and "riding in the box," and in the second I gave you information, tips and exercises for the practical quality aspect of training In this t...
This is the second in a new series of articles in which we will investigate the quality aspect of training and how to maintain a healthy, sound, and happy equine athlete. While logging miles is important, the manner in which we do so is equally, if not more, crucial. The first article touched on the basics and "riding in the box," and in this insta...
This is a recorded webinar from the "Train smarter" trilogy of webinars, and it focusses on how every horse is different.You already know a lot of this because of the first series of tutorials, but it is always good to have it all in one talk.Enjoy
This is part 2 of an older webinar focussed on riding and riding exercises I feel are beneficial for endurance horses. This is part 2 of this webinar, you will find the 1st here: This webinar in 2 parts explains the basics I work from, it features pictures and video's of examples and hopefully these will help you with your own ridin...
This is part 1 of an older webinar focussed on riding and riding exercises I feel are beneficial for endurance horses. This is part one of this webinar, you will find the second here: , Thus webinar in 2 parts explains the basics I work from, it features pictures and video's of examples and hopefully these will help you with y...
This is an older webinar previously recorded which will give you some help with a good quality of riding when you are training your horse.Enjoy!
A separate talk for the balance of conformation of our horse, it is vital for healthy performance and therefor vital for us as riders to have an idea of what we have to look for in the balance of an endurance horse. A horse that is build on the forehand will have a greater risk of injury of the front legs. When we are aware of that, we can help the...
A separate talk for the balance of conformation of our horse, it is vital for healthy performance and therefor vital for us as riders to have an idea of what we have to look for in the balance of an endurance horse. A horse that is build on the forehand will have a greater risk of injury of the front legs. When we are aware of that, we can help the...
This video will tell you all about what the first series of tutorials called "Preparing your upcoming season" will be about. This is really the way to prepare for the rest of the season a crucial step to realise that your horse is different from any other. We will go through a lot of information about evaluating, assessing ...
I am not riding at the moment. I am not (yet) on my self-set minimum rider weight. In 2009 I decided that if I wanted to keep riding Arabs in long-distance and progress to FEI, I needed to lose weight, and I should weigh a minimum of 75 kg to be allowed to ride FEI, preferably less. I was over 85 kg at that time, so it was not only good for m...
