Rupert’s exercise of the month explores the importance of communication and collaboration between people working with a horse. Training a horse in a vacuum without help of others might not be impossible for advanced riders and trainers, but if you start searching and looking for who has ever trained a horse all by themselves without...
2023/06: Monkey Collaborations Read More »
This month I have chosen a subject that is often not talked about. And yet it is so important. Worse often we are told we are not to use this very helpful and obvious to us “aid” and it definitely is not showing up in the official lists of “aids”. What I’m talking about is...
2023/06: Never Shut Up! Read More »
Exercise of the Month – In hand This months we are seemingly going a step back for our Exercise of the Month – In hand. Rupert is this month starting to work with Helios on bomb proofing. Helios is super solid with many odd human-made monsters, but not all. Recently, our son decided that it...
2023/05: Bomb-proofing Tarpaulin Read More »
Exercise of the Month Ridden This month we are going back to something really basic! The rider’s seat. While we sit up there we will influence the horse. Positively or negatively. So it behooves us to try and have the best seat we can. One very effective tool for this is letting yourself be lunged...
2023/05: Being Lunged For Your Seat Read More »
Rupert is also using the trails this month to show you his exercise of the month. Head out there, find a nice stretch (doesn’t need to be vast amounts of space), find your wall and off you go practicing your laterals in a setting that is most likely for you and your horse nicer and...
2023/04: Trail Ride Dressage – In Hand Laterals Read More »
Let’s face it riding in the arena is actually most of the time – let’s not say boring – but more boring than riding out! So this months with winter almost behind us (so we hope!) we are heading on the trail and are looking at how the trails can help us work on dressage...
2023/04: Trail Ride Dressage – Ridden Laterals Read More »
For the in hand and the ridden exercises of the month we have both decided to show you a set of exercises one can do with The Snowman. The Snowman looks like this: Pretty clear, right? We felt that this exercise is a logical follow up to last month exercise. Last month In Hand exercise...
2023/03: In Hand Exercise Of The Month: The Snowman Read More »
This month’s ridden exercise builds on last month’s exercise. Then we worked with a set of different sized circles, to improve rhythm, suppleness and connection through the help of transitions, be it from walk to halt, walk trot etc. or change of size of the circle itself. This month we are introducing the Snowman. Here...
2023/03: Ridden Exercise of the Month – The Snowman Read More »
In this month’s exercise Rupert is taking us through a spiral on the circle. The idea here is that you are paying preparing the horse by making smaller and smaller circles until you finally come to the center of the circle and complete a pattern 1 there. Sounds to easy. Have a watch, give it...
2023/02: In Hand Exercise Of The Month: Spiral On Circle Into Patter 1 Read More »
This months we are looking at the circle. Most of us learn to use the inside leg, and we all ignore our outside aids, because we are not made aware of need for them. As long as we stay in the arena and have a wall that is no problem. But what happens when the...
2023/02: Ridden Exercise Of The Month: Different Circle Sizes Read More »
I think this is a really interesting tutorial. Among other reasons because you can really see how difficult it sometimes can be to wiggle your way through to a successful result. I asked Rupert to help me with Bombon, because I had trouble with the right lead canter. Bombon kept over bending to the right,...
Assisted in hand to help horse get the renvers Read More »
In Pattern 2 one of the most important points is the starting angle. Watch the video below to get it right from the beginning....
Common Mistakes 7: Angle In Pattern 2 Read More »
Check out the following video to avoid mistakes in your foot work for Pattern1....
Common Mistake 6: Foot Work Read More »
In this tutorial we talk about a few common pit falls when it comes to whip control while working in hand, and how to easily avoid them....
Common Mistakes 5: Whip Control Read More »
Make sure you always first move forward a bit, then swivel into P1. Also never pull your horse forward because that will …… Can you fill in the blank? If not make sure to watch this tutorial. If you do know watch anyway!...
Common Mistakes 4: Starting To Soon In P1 Or Pulling Horse Read More »
In this tutorial we explain how to adjust the side reins for basic in hand work and which mistakes can happen when adjusting them....
Common Mistakes 3: Adjustment Of Side Reins Read More »
In this video we will show you how we adjust our type of cavesson as well as some of the common mistakes when adjusting the cavesson for in hand work....
Common Mistakes 2: Adjustment Of Cavesson Read More »
In this mini series of common mistakes we are hoping to help you avoid some of the early pitfalls of in hand work. Watch below for details. Remember even a very educated horse starts with a beginning handler also again at the beginning....
Common Early Mistakes 1: Bridle too early Read More »
January 2023 Welcome to our first exercise in hand of the month. We hope you had a great start into 2023 and are ready to kick of the new year and this years resolutions. We are producing a ridden and an in hand exercise of the month and will then throughout the month add clips...
2023/01: In Hand Exercise of the Month: Back up on long side toward Piaffe Read More »
