Each clinic is 90 minutes

Friday – The first session will encompass the fundamentals of show jumping, discussing and demonstrating some of the principles we include in daily training for horses regardless of their stage in education. We will talk about understanding how we interact with our horses and what we need to achieve to be successful with our horses, for equitation, hunters and show jumpers, and do some exercises that help to bring this into focus. 

Saturday – The second day will focus on gymnastic exercises for our horses. We will build on the principles covered on the first day, and apply them to the gymnastic exercises on day two. We will focus on rider position, the horse understanding the exercise to the best of their ability in order to maximize the benefit. We will utilize the gymnastic as a tool to address jumping technique and straightness, and build into a pattern of jumps to further the application. 

Sunday – The final day will be about course management – the culmination for the horses and riders understanding of the basic principles, isolating some skills in the gymnastic day, and now managing a competition setting to optimize performance in the show ring. 

Presentation – The goal is to talk about the sport of show jumping, and hopefully with some participation from the audience we can derive a system together that both achieves the sporting goals while improving our understanding of horses and how they think.