Ep. 28 - On toolkits, tantrums and leg aids
Send us your feedback! Trainers will always be prejudiced against the toolkits they don’t understand, can’t be bothered with, or do so brilliantly (and easily) that they fail to recognise their brilli...
18 Okt 202022min
Ep. 27 More on the Zero toolkit, overshadowing, and the transition from ground work to riding.
Send us your feedback! How proponents of the 3 toolkits interact like the proverbial 3 blind men with the elephant. More on the Zero toolkit, overshadowing, and the transition from ground work to ridi...
4 Okt 202022min
Ep. 26 On ‘the map is not the territory’
Send us your feedback! On ‘the map is not the territory’, even though riders and trainers the world over act as if it is - and go so far as to ‘eat the menu’! If a rider, vet, physio, saddler and far...
30 Sep 202020min
Ep. 25 - The pitfalls of buying a new horse
Send us your feedback! So much of riding is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get run away with from the moment you decide you’re being run away with… so we review how rider ‘lose it’ through the model ...
20 Sep 202022min
Ep. 24 Why do some people learn and improve much faster than others?
Send us your feedback! The patterns in the pupil’s body are part of this, and we have both the ‘foetal crouch’ and the much more common ‘Landau response’, where the rider pushes down into the stirrups...
4 Sep 202021min
Ep. 23 - On risk and reward, and resilience as a rider.
Send us your feedback! Imagine yourself as a mouse in a house where there is cheese available on the opposite side of the room to your mouse hole. But there is also a cat. Which is more real to you, t...
11 Aug 202022min
Ep. 22 On the comfort zone, stretch zone, panic zone and play zone
Send us your feedback!I learnt many years ago that my observations just before a lesson were a more accurate risk assessment than some riders made before mounting. But my words of caution did not stop...
27 Juli 202023min
Ep. 21 On struggle, behaviour, identity, and nerves.
Send us your feedback! Many riders, epecially those with a fixed mindset struggle on alone, thinking they’re the only one who doesn’t ‘get it’, but this is not true. Dressage as ‘the passionate pursui...
20 Juli 202020min
