Changing coaches is never easy. No matter how good the coach, different is scary and scary is bad! So how do we make the switch as painless as possible and get the most out of our new relationship? Well, for …
Found Results from Ruckus Rider
Hiring a new coach is a scary thing. What if you don’t get along with them, if their ideas and expectations of progress are different from your own, if they approach and solve problems using methods that challenge you in …
A few weeks ago I posed the question: to ride or not to ride? Thanks to everyone who took the time and made the effort to respond with their own experiences and struggles, it was appreciated! As you may know, …
Question: how do you officially height check a pony in the “OFF” season?
Why do I care? Well, I happen to have two super cute, super talented, green ponies for sale at the moment…go me! But, they have never attended …
Well, it’s been over a month, but the doctors have finally given me the green light to resume life as I know it. Hallelujah!
You never know what’s going to happen when you spend your days working around horses, but …
Life with horses isn’t really a choice for most die-hard riders. Ask anyone and they’ll give you a list a mile long of injuries and challenges that should have kept them out of the saddle, but didn’t. I’ve often wondered …
I had an interesting conversation with one of my young riders’ parents the other day which sparked a somewhat philosophical evaluation. The philosophical discussion centred around the fundamental differences between the sport of horseback riding and other more widely understood …
For those of you who have been following along since I first put pen to paper you’ll know we are now entering into dangerous territory. Fall is approaching! Need I say more? For those of you who are joining me …
When I declared at the beginning of the summer, “I’ll be needing my weekends off”, I think I might have been misunderstood. Perhaps what I should have said was, “I’ll be needing every weekend off for the entire summer to …
“To school or not to school?” For those riders attending this past weekend’s show here at Edenview it was a question that was at the forefront of almost everyone’s mind. Why? Because the answer was an emphatic: “No! You do …