Entries from May 2008

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Bridle-less piaffe – the baby steps that have to happen before piaffe can happen

Here’s an article that I wrote about my work with Bobby towards bridle-less piaffe about six months ago. You can use this to work towards piaffe yourself, to think about the tiny baby steps that you need to break it down into to get there yourself.

Click here for another free riding lesson in your armchair – on how to break down the elements of piaffe into the tiny baby steps that will lead to piaffe happening.

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Free lesson in how to ride bridle-less, with nothing at all on your horse’s head…

One of the readers of the elctronic book “Bobby’s Diaries – Straight from the Horse’s Mouth to You” asked me to help her ride bridle-less, with just a string around her horse’s neck, so I thought I’d post this for everyone to have a play with.

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Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Improve your riding seat at home! Free riding lesson.

Simulations WITHOUT our horse are a valuable way of learning without putting the pressure on our horse that so often happens when we are exploring a new way of doing something

So click here for a great horse riding lesson without leaving your kitchen!

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Tasmanian Spirit of Horse clinic

Here’s a lovely article about the Tasmanian Spirit of Horse camp, drawn from Cynthia Cooper’s wide ranging and interesting newsletter on all sorts of horse issues, with photos and comment from me too. (There’s a link below for you to get to Cynthia’s website and subscribe to that newsletter)

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