Showing posts with label schooling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schooling. Show all posts
March 6, 2019

Don't Lose "Better" In The Quest For "Perfect": Part I

Echo continues to make clear to me the importance of recognizing progress as a true journey, not a single leap. An equine student is just ...

December 27, 2018

A 4 Yr Old Is Not The Same As A 6 Yr Old

Y'all.  Not even close. You are permitted to laugh.  I do. Encore was halfway through his sixth year when I got him .  He was a sens...

March 5, 2016

How To Get To Good: Be A Better Lab Rat

Encore & I always look like this. Ha. You get on your horse, warm up & organize your various pieces & parts, & then you...

February 7, 2016

Allow Your Horse To Believe In You

The concept of "belief" can at first sound nebulous, but in our riding, it directly translates to the essentials of trust and conf...

November 23, 2015

The Trouble With Horses

But Encore-face, impossible to not love... Is that they're horses.  One minute you're on top of the world, the next, you're ...

November 11, 2015

Catching Up: Like, RIDING HORSES!

It’s a tad squishy out, what with several inches of rain over the last 24 hours.  But the sun is warm & some of the grass is still green...

October 8, 2015

Why Should I Ride?

TB always ready! ( Get it?!) I felt a restless hassle, mixed with now-familiar fatigue, as I slipped the saddle billets into girth buckl...

September 2, 2015

Obvious Riding, Obviously

A normal workday-& perfect metaphor for my life It's been hard to write.  It's been hard to ride.  I'd guess all my fel...

August 9, 2015

We Jumped A Thing!

Seriously – a thing!!!  Ok, the word “jump” may be a tad strong: If it looks like a jump & jumps like a jump... But creativity is a...

July 21, 2015

How Not To Get Hot

Famous last words:  “ I was going to wait & ride at 8:00 pm since it’s 907% humidity, but heck with it, it’s already 6:30 pm, that’s ...

July 15, 2015

Craving Progress In Your Riding & Training?

Think about it like your horse does. We ( myself included ) spend far too much time stuck on what went wrong yesterday or last week or at...

March 26, 2015

Put More "Can" In Your Can-ter

The Power Of Positive Something continues popping up its little head, quietly, back in mind cobwebs where useful things like to hide.  It ...