One of the fun aspects of my job is learning about things I didn't know existed. Hell Week is one of those things. Hell Week is a clinic designed by Jimmy Wofford to prepare for competition season. The Hell Week I saw was lots of intense lunging exercises, but Jimmy told me if it went another[...]
Continuing on with Mary Flood's Clinic, we talked about working the horse next. The first part, Rider Position, is here. I think the majority of us lunge our horses, or at least at some point lunged our horses. I learned just from watching my trainer lunge a few times, and then being handed a whi[...]
This past weekend, I went to a Lunging and Long Lining Clinic taught by my dressage trainer Mary Flood. Mary has all three of her USDF Medals, and was on the USET Long List, and competed in the 1992 Olympic Screening Trials. She's also just a cool, cool lady. I will admit that I haven't taken a d[...]
Welcome back to part 2 of my World Class Grooming overview!! Part One can be found here. As I said before, this clinic is super informative and well worth it. Here's just a few more tidbits of the day. Clipping As you may vaguely remember, and I remember vividly, my horse had a really, really b[...]
I'm on a clinic attending spree, and attended another one this past weekend. Inspired by the fact I truly am the worst at grooming my horses, I decided to attend a clinic from the co-author of World Class Grooming, Cat Hill. The clinic was set up by my new riding club, Tri-State Riding Club, and whi[...]
I am not an eventer at all, but I decided to audit a Boyd Martin clinic because I am actually interested in riding cross country. Not competitively, because I am a still a huge weenie, but it'd be fun to go schooling, or take on some jumps on trails or hunter paces. Why not get my introduction to it[...]