Horse Riding Coaches Wanted COACHES WANTED – experienced & trainees The International Society of Rider Biomechanics is the world’s leading resource for rider seat & position.  If you are a coach wanting to specialise, or a trainee getting their first start, we receive enquiries daily from riders asking us to refer qualified biomechanics coaches.  Become [...]

My feet have ALWAYS gone numb when I horse ride.  For as long as I remember trail rides with my mother meant numb feet. It wasn’t until I damaged my spine, up near my waist, that I got the same feeling, numb feet, all the time (I’m “fixed now!) and realised it comes from your [...]

Great game for easing into canter – and for light and soft transitions We do this in an arena.  60 x 20m.  You can do it in other sizes, but the size of this is perfect.   So try to mark that kind of area out, as best you can if you don’t have an [...]

Two great titles on sale for limited time only…. “How to Analyse & Improve the Rider’s Seat, Posture & Balance”.  3 Set DVD Series. Filmed live at the Lipizzaner Hall, this marvelous DVD set featuring several demonstration horses looks at all aspects of the rider’s seat, posture and balance. It really is ideal for all [...]

  I really encourage you to read this absolutely remarkable result, reported by ONM and the Kentucky Horse Shoeing School on the hideous  Hydrogel Verrucous Pododermatitis Treatment  

We’re still working on it…but here’s our dates so far: 2011 USA DATES YORK, SC (1 hr sth of Charlotte NC)  Oct 1 & 2 WHIN Conference Nashville Oct 6  to 8  BOWLUS, Minnesota  October 9 to 13th KENTUCKY  End Oct to Early November EQUINE EXTRAVAGANZA  Virginia.   4 Nov to 6 Nov BAY AREA, CA  November 7 to 9 [...]

For hundreds of years (certainly since the American Civil War) riding manuals have required riders to have the “thumb the highest point of the hand”. But why? In our ridden demonstrations (you can see this on both these DVDs: Rider Seat & Posture  and  Full Training Package)  you can see that when we roll the [...]

4 Day Sale – $175 reduced to $75 until September 12 only Instead of complicated science…we have “made science simple”, boiling down all the complicated terms and grey areas that no-one can understand to the simplest things. This package has been purchased by absolute beginners wanting to learn the basics – right up to Grand [...]

A great tip to check upper body balance – using the rider’s elbows as a measuring tool instead of “guessing” what the shoulders are doing.

UPDATE: 2011 Full Circle Moment As I write this I am sitting on the beach in BEAUTIFUL Rosarita Beach, Mexico. Yesterday was a ‘full circle moment’ for me. I actually wrote most of this article years and years ago and was up on our old website forever…but riding yesterday and realising that most people think [...]

On the  ’forehand’ or the ‘haunches’? When you see photos or videos are you looking down? Is your coach always telling you:  ”look up, LOOK UP”.   Do you see the top level riders with their elegant stance, or seen videos of the Spanish School of Riding with the hats at the perfect angle? Why looking [...]

Raise your hands – carry your hands – lift the horse in front If you have heard people say that to you…you may have also heard “there should be a straight line from the elbow through the hand to the bit”. That’s two VERY different things! So you’d better know who is right and who [...]

Seat and Leg to get the horse on the bit When horse riders come to me for seat and posture assessments and lessons they expect me to make them use their bodies more, leg more, push more more hold. As a dressage judge I always wondered why the Rule Book says “light contact”, and “able to [...]