The VideoThis video is excerpted from my blog post "Why Do We Teach Our Horseback Riding Students Riding Position?"
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The VideoThis video is excerpted from my blog post "Why Do We Teach Our Horseback Riding Students Riding Position?"
When you hear about things like horse show competitors who can’t ready their own horse, water withheld from horses so they are calmer for their riders, lunging to
I ran across a Facebook discussion about how to tell and how to teach when a rider is on the correct diagonal at the trot, so I thought
What are they? School commands have their basis in the military where the need to move many minds in one direction at the same time requires a standard
In my book, anytime we teach horsemanship it’s a good way. In this post I talk about 4 different ways to include horsemanship in your teaching program. All
“Integrity is what we do, what we say and what we say we do.”– Don Galer Integrity is one of the most important qualities a riding instructor can
Good riding is as much the result of conditioning the rider’s thought processes and reflexes, as it is conditioning the body and learning skills. What a rider does
It can be unnerving for an instructor to lose confidence during a lesson, but it happens more often than you might think. I’m not talking about losing confidence
How important is riding without stirrups? Whenever I ask a class of new riders “What keeps you on the horse” one person will answer “the stirrups”. Rider’s receive
There is a blurry line from one level of riding to the next that can cause problems in the instructor / student relationship particularly if the student is