July 25, 2026
The Riding Instructor
The Riding Instructor Library
We've organized all our articles and placed them into categories for your convenience. If there is a topic you would like discussed please contact me.
Instructor Business Tips
- Business Scheduling Ideas for Riding Instructors
- What Does Volleyball Have Over Riding Lessons?
- Do You Compromise When You Teach?
- Signs of a Safe Riding Lesson Program
- Sexual Abuse at the Barn
- No One Loves Riding Lesson Cancellations
- Riding Lesson Payments – Use Your Cell Phone
- Branding Your Horse Business
- Don’t Trust Your Beginner Riders with a Beginner Instructor
- Why I Love Teaching Group Riding Lessons
- Should You be “Allowed” to Watch Your Child’s Riding Lessons?
- Tips for a Short Beginner Course
- Summer Horsemanship Camp- 20 Tips for Success
- Horsemen’s Ground School
- Managing Summer's Heat
- No Stirrups November
- Websites, Insurance, and Forms
- Facebook vs a Website for Your Riding Lesson Business
- Learning to Ride Horses- Show Them What is Possible
- 10 Things That Will Keep Riding Lesson Students
Coming Back - 10 Things to Improve the Future of the Horse Business
- FaceBook VS a Website for You Riding Lesson Business
Continuing education for everyone
- What I Read | The Riding Instructor
- Read This Book on Good Riding Technique
- Jumping Horses, Federico Caprilli, Harry Chamberlin, & YOU
- How Good Riders Get Good- Book Review
- Jim Wofford Teaches Jumping Riveted Ditches
- Jumping Banks with Jim Wofford
- What’s in a Good Instructor Certification Program?
- Instructor Certification – How to Choose
- 5 Requirements to be a Good Horseman- Harry Chamberlin
- An Interview on Horsemanship Radio With Barbara Ellin Fox
For Students/Parents/Significant others
- How to Make Your Riding Instructor Happy
- 5 Basic Things Riding Instructors Expect
- Pony Club Develops Character in Kids
- Pointers for a Successful Beginner’s Dressage Test
- Signs of a Safe Riding Lesson Program
- Horsemanship Life Skills Your Child Will Use as an Adult
- Get Your Child Involved in a Character Building Horsemanship Program
- A Reader Requested a Post About Trainer Instructors
- Sexual Abuse at the Barn-How You Can Help
- Don’t Trust Your Beginner Riders with a Beginner Instructor
- Riding Instructors and Students- Who Are You?
- Can Tune Ups Fix Your Horsemanship Fundamentals?
- I Really, Really Want A Horse! Puleeeeze
- Should You be “Allowed” to Watch Your Child’s Riding Lessons?
- The Best Exercises to Help You Keep Your Heels Down
- Improve Your Posture, Improve Your Riding
- Trouble Keeping Your Heels Down When You Ride? Check These 6 Things
- How Long Does It Take To Learn To Ride A Horse?
- Riding Horses is Different
- Jumping Banks with Jim Wofford -video
- Jim Wofford Teaches Jumping Riveted Ditches - video
- Riding For A Life Time
- What makes a good two-point?
- Rider Hand Position- Good and Bad
- Can You Watch Your Child's Riding Lessons?
- An Interview With Barbara Ellin Fox on Horsemanship Radio
- What Do You Think About When You Jump a Course?-video
Miscellaneous
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