Coaching

Blondie stumbled at the same spot for three rides before I got off and watched the video. My inside leg had drifted back. I had felt nothing from the saddle. That is what video does. It shows the thing we cannot feel because we are inside it.

The missing piece is not always the rider. Just as often it is a skill I assumed the horse already had. For months I was clicking Blondie for steps in the left turn that were not the steps I thought they were. I had asked for shoulder-in and was rewarding leg yield, and the video showed it. The turn itself had a piece missing underneath it, the bend that has to come before the turn, and once that was there the rest followed. I wrote about it as it happened in The Integration Letters here, here and here.

That is what a coaching session is. You send me three to five minutes of your training, and we sit down with it together, online, and go through it slowly. Frame by frame where it matters. Your horse does not need to travel, and neither do you. What I am looking for is the small thing, the piece that looked fine at speed. Sometimes it is in the horse, sometimes in the set-up, and often in the way we are moving around the horse without noticing. Then we work out the next step, and if it helps I show it with one of my own horses.

How it runs

1. You book and pay for a session. Right after, you get an email with everything you need to get started.
2. You upload three to five minutes of your training to a streaming platform and post the link in your own private corner on this site. Only you and I can see it.
3. You pick a time, and we meet online and go through the video. Plan for about 90 minutes.
4. You get the next steps in writing after the call, with links to any of my videos we looked at.
5. Once you’ve worked on the next steps and questions come up, we can talk again. As long as it’s about the same piece of training, that call is included. If it turns out we need to look at something new, it’s a new session.