Think about it: how would you be if you have to go into a sand school every day, walking round after round, doing the same all the time.
It is very important
Saying that, I do believe instructors have a task explaining what and why. Gone are the days in which drill sergeants just told you what to do and shut
Loving your horse is very important. Even more then the ability to ride him. There are many examples of maybe not so good riders who did really well,
No, he’s not. Horses can be playful, excited, bored or tired. But they don’t make fun of people. They like to cooperate. If they only knew
The key word was patience. Losing it means all the work you’ve done before has been useless, he said. And you might be even further back, as the horse
Horses need three things to be happy: freedom of movement, a constant supply of fiber rich roughage for the health of their intestines but, most of
As a rider and instructor, but mostly as a writer for Dutch horse magazines I had the privilege to talk to a lot of different trainers and riders at
Different scenario. You love horses, you want to ride, but deep down you are quite scared. But you really want this and you don’t want your friends
If this is done over and over and he’s got no way of getting away from it, he’ll go into a dull, switched off state, which is referred to as ‘learned
Eventers and showjumpers are doing dressage all the time, only they call it flatwork. Actually, it is very much the same. In the end it helps them to