Category: Lessons
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I’ll Stop Riding When I’m Dead!
A future I believe I will live to see.
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Balloon Man? What on Earth?
There he was!
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“With a heart for any fate….”
“Let us then be up and doing with a heart for any fate. Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labour and to wait.” Longfellow This is one of my favourite inspirational quotes. I am going to use it to take a look at my winter season in Florida. Let us then be up and doing.…
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Beginners Guide to Riding with Crutches.
It’s not just about your hands..
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Passage, Piaffe and the Pillow Seat.
I needed the lightest of aids or she would show me the “grumpy” mare.
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Paralympian! Equestrian! Warrior! This is Dale Dedrich.
Keep going! You don’t have a choice.
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Clinic with Henk van Bergen
Take it back to basics, get it right , then carry on.
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Do Not Get Sloppy!
I want the odds in my favor!
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Meet the Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone of Dressage!
This is just what we do. We go to work in Florida for three months of the year.
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Beginners Guide to Riding the Mounting Block!
I hear you! You are saying :”Whaaat? Ride a mounting block? What is she talking about?” Well ,Dear Readers, let me explain. During the winter season in Florida I train with coach and international competitor,Luis Reteguiz Denizard, known as Lou to his friends.This year when I arrived in Florida I watched a couple of lessons…
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Clementine Disproves the Conventional Wisdom.
What every rider needs is a horse they can trust.
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Moments of Magic and Mindfulness
I am old but not too old and it is never hopeless.