We are still in our series of working toward the flying change. Today I want to look at picking up a canter lead – the canter lead WE want – anywhere. Really important here is that you start to visualize what you want and that you start to get away from right or wrong lead...
2024/04: The Flying Change – Getting started with picking up any lead anywhere Read More »
In this third part to approaching the flying change we are introducing the counter canter. If you have not gone through part 1 and 2 of our series on the counter canter. The counter canter is the spot to which a lot riders come but then are unable to balance the counter canter enough to...
2024/03: The Flying Change – Establishing the Counter Canter Read More »
This is our second video on the flying change. Make sure to check the TAG “Flying Change” to get all videos that belong to this series. Here I am talking only about the riders seat. The flying change is for many of us so difficult, because we can mess it up so easily. The horse...
The Flying Change! One of the really big deals for many equestrians. It looks so easy. Most of us feel we can never get there. And usually we don’t quite know why! In the next few months we are going to try and introduce to you a set of exercises that will prepare you and...
2023/12: Introduction to the flying change Read More »
I personally really like this module and I hope you will too. I think it will really help you get to the next level. I cover two things here. First I explain a bit better what I did in the summer with the 3 Lines exercise. I found out that some people don’t quite feel...
2023/11: Schooling Your Eye For The Lateral Read More »
Join me on my first ride with my new toy, the Pivo. I am exploring in this module the idea of visualizing not in terms of what I would like to manifest in my life or possibly even in my ride, but just very simply to be really clear on what I am intending to...
Visualize the lines and aids of your ride Read More »
Join me this month to look at approaches for the mounted leg yield. Please only do this ridden exercise if you have done Ruperts EOM October on unmounted approaches to the legyield as well as all the other prep exercises for the leg yield. That means, you have started the leg yield in hand, assisted...
2023/10: Approaches to the Leg Yield – Ridden Exercise of the month Read More »
Join me this months to talk about some ideas on straightness. Straightness is a big subject and I will cover more in additional tutorials. This month I wanted to give you a few ideas on how to look for straightness. We have moved to a new location and have this extremely pretty and straight-lined arena...
2023/09 Ideas for Straightness Read More »
It’s already August 2023! This month I want to explore a really dear subject for me! Lightness and the leg aid. I will create more exercises around the leg, but this month we don’t want to put too much emphasis about what the leg aids are but rather just put mindfulness and awareness into our...
2023/08: Lightness begins in the leg 🪶🦵 Read More »
We are more or less approaching the height of the summer. (at least for us in the northern hemisphere!) With summer comes for all of us hopefully the possibility to ride out and be on longer, warmer days for more extended periods of time with our ponies. This month Ridden Exercise of the Month is...
2023/07: Double your steps Challenge 🏃♀️ 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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
January 2023 Welcome to our first exercise of the month. We hope you had a great start into 2023 and are ready to kick of the new year and this years riding resolutions. We are producing a ridden and an in hand exercise of the month and will then throughout the month add clips with...
2023/01: Ridden exercise of the Month: The loooong clover leaf Read More »
