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Amy Blount Dressage

Dressage and Mindset Coach. Inspiring Riders to believe in their journey though coaching. Do you want to maximise your performance?

Do you want help planning your journey, or support in setting and achieving your goals? No matter age or ability, I am happy to work with anyone who wants to learn. I have been working with and developing riders since 2004, with training options that cater to all levels. Whether you’re just starting out on your journey or looking for fresh ideas to help you progress, my lessons and online training

may just be the perfect fit for you. I am a BDCC level 3 Dressage coach, Centre 10 Advanced Coach, Flying Changes Mindset Licenced Coach and a graduate of the the National Development Programme in Coaching Excellence, based in Minety, Wiltshire.. I hold regular clinics in other counties such as Hampshire, Dorset and Shropshire, as well as offering a range of remote services and programmes.

As a BD Accredited Coach, I am fully insured and up to date with my first aid, DBS check, and Safeguarding.

I attend very regular continual professional development days to ensure that I am always providing the very best service I can.

I have trained my own homebred Anglo Arab to Inter I, and have ridden and trained a vast range of types and breeds of horses giving me a large pool of knowledge to draw upon.

It is my passion to help people along their journey, and inspire them to be the best that they can be, achieving their goals, no matter how big or small.

I now only offer lessons at clinics or as part of my memberships to offer the upmost consistency and standards of training. The memberships combined off horse training with on the horse training for the total learning experience, making your time riding fun, productive, and motivating.

06/10/2025

Just a quick note to say 👋👋

Mary Mai joined us on 15th August, and we are having a lovely time getting to know her!
She has been practising her video analysis skills on my KIT days 😍🤣
So she is totally up to speed on everything 🤣

Operation design, our new way of life, is well underway. After a tricky delivery, I was cleared for more exercise this week, so hopefully, by the time it's my next KIT day, i may have even ridden!

There has been lots of people asking when I am returning to work and I can confirm I will not be returning to coaching before January as I want to make sure I have all my ducks in a row with juggling my masters, riding and of course Mary! 😍

22/08/2025

When people ask me why I'm so passionate about coaching . ...
Because if you believe you can, you will 💪

This memory from regionals popped up this morning, and it's a beautiful reminder that dressage is for anyone.

It's not about big scores and red rosettes but seeing how far you can train your pony whilst having fun along the way😍

This is your weekend reminder to check in and connect with your 'WHY' 😍

18/08/2025

TBT the Pony Club Championships in 2017 with the legend that was Lil!

Lil was quite the special pony, having been one of the first homebred youngsters I produced, she took me to the championships at almost every level in almost every sphere!!

However, in 2017, she made a return to the Pony Club scene with my sister Emily as a veteran and not only qualified for the championships like a pro, but they also went on to hold their own, in their section!

Lil wasn't always an easy ride, but she taught us both so much over the years and continued to teach riders key skills through to her retirement!

Homebreds just hit differently, but Lil was certainly one of a kind!😍😍

15/08/2025

3 reasons you may be leaving marks in the arena . . .

👉Do you have a warm-up plan? Just by having a checklist for success, or some go-to exercises, you can take your warm-up from just killing time trotting round the edge to being ready to a well-prepared test! Even just thinking about what you need in the warm-up can set the intention and get your brain operating from its comfort zone rather than in stress!

👉 Do you read your sheets? And I mean REALLY read them? Look for what underlined, know what your high mark gainers are so you can really nail them, and look at the 0.5 marks - what dimple thing can you do to top them up? Remember 6.5 all the way through is 65%, 7s all the way through is 70%, 0.5 can make a big difference!!

👉 Are you being accurate!? One of the easiest ways to pick up marks!! Judges are looking at the way of going and how accurately you ride the movement, so even if you a loving the feeling if your circle is too small you will loose some marks! There are easy things to pick up marks on - centre lines being one, every test has them, a minimum of 2, so make these a high mark gainer!

11/08/2025

JUST IN CASE YOU WERE NEEDING SOME INSPO THIS WEEK, I THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE THIS WONDERFUL LADY'S JOURNEY AGAIN!

My client came to me wanting to improve her dressage. She was doing well at the Riding Club, but felt like she was stuck, as her horse was older, and she felt like her options were limited. The ‘older’ horse was also of the unconventional type who struggled with getting the right canter lead strike-off, she was a cob and my client wasn’t sure if they would fit in at British Dressage competitions.

We carved a plan for the year ahead with a gentle stretch of her comfort zone into British Dressage Competitions. We discussed what she needed to feel confident at the affiliated competition, which included understanding what opportunities there were, the BD system, as well as the best starting place for her and her horse, for where they were at that time.

After working through her plan, developing a clear warm-up strategy, and building process-focused goals into sessions and competitions, she was able to focus on her own journey and not be distracted by what others might think, allowing the whole experience to be fun and confidence-giving.
This client and her super cob over the next couple of years went on to compete at the Quest regional finals, move up to Novice, Complete their first festival, and train and elementary - a credit to all her hard work!!
Incredible achievements and a perfect example of how the mix of work off the horse can maximize your work on the horse! It's not about making quick fixes, it's about building a long-term relationship with your horse harmoniously, that allows you to ride and compete, have fun, and progress. This is built through consistently good mindset and training habits, which are maintained by having the accountability of a coach who will help you keep steering the ship to where you want to go!

Keep at it - stay consistent - you never know what you could do!

08/08/2025

WHAT GIVES ME CONFIDENCE WHEN I COMPETE!?

There is a simple answer to this - feeling like I'm prepared!!

Prepared for me is:
👉 Making sure I have allowed MORE than enough time on the day - I allow an extra 15-minute buffer zone for everything!!
👉 I know my 3 words for the day and I am clear on what they feel like. This is usually written down, if it's not then I will have at the very least thought about them before the day and just before I get on.
👉 I have done the time-saving things I can do before we leave e.g numbers are on, tack and numnahs are all together, my jacket/gloves etc are all together.

Now this said I do operate a 'Does it make the boat go faster?' system (great book for anyone looking for a good read!) this means if for some reason I haven't had a chance to do the above or something changes e.g we get stuck in traffic the things that matter less get chucked of the list!

For example, if I haven't had a chance to clean my tack for whatever reason - yes it is annoying but it's not essential to my performance. I will always ask myself 'will this make my performance better?' if the answer is no then this is the invitation to let it go for this one!
Now I am not advocating never cleaning your tack but what I am saying here is if there are things that take away from you feeling as prepared to perform as possible, and they don't directly make you ride better or the horse go better they can go on the 'only if I have time list'.
The reality is LIFE HAPPENS and the hardest thing is actually being ok with not being perfect!

So prepared for me is having clarity on what gives me confidence in my performance - there's no point in sacrificing warm-up time to give your tack the quick wipe over.

04/08/2025

Coaching is about developing the whole person and the whole horse, rather than just the result, which is actually what I love the most about coaching!

For me, I'm not coaching riders, I'm coaching people through the medium of dressage.
My whole ethos and values are all around developing the person as well as the rider with the horse.

It's the reason I have the unmounted team training online, the reason I talk mindset in lessons and the reason I believe that equestrian sport creates some of the most resilient people around!!
Sport makes you pretty resilient but sport with an animal is a whole other level! Resilience is your ability to bounce back and that is tested so much in Riding that you can't help but develop as a person too!

It's process over outcome every time for me, but the best bit is if we get the process right we will arrive at the outcome!

01/08/2025

Starting August with a handy little exercise for your canter transitions!! 👇👇👇

This one is all about your preparation for trot/canter and canter/trot transitions.
1️⃣Start in canter, and make sure you have a consistent rhythm established.
2️⃣Turn on to a 20m circle at A, as you return to ‘A’ prepare your downward transition.
3️⃣ As you hit trot when you get to ‘A’ turn immediately onto a 10m circle.
4️⃣As you approach the last quarter of the smaller circle prepare to canter again (if this is too soon aim to do it in the corner after)
5️⃣Repeat again at ‘C’, and once you feel confident, you can add it in at E and B too really testing your accuracy and finding of aids!

🔥Top tip for this exercise - adjust/repeat the trot circles as necessary to prevent anticipation.
✅Half Halts really are your friend- these can help you create more time and space.
💪And finally layer the exercise up, start easy with 1 set and then layer then up 1 by 1.

Build confidence and competence through purposeful practice rather than box-ticking.
Let me know how you get on!!

28/07/2025

TBT Pet Plans last year 😍🥰

With Area Festivals and Regionals in full swing, I wanted to share something I learnt at last year's Areas!

We had qualified for 2 classes at the area festival, and those of you who have been here a while will know how much I love a Warm Up plan! However, I do always say the most important thing about your plan is that it is flexible and can be adapted when needed!
I had a few days between classes, and although my first test was fairly good, I couldn't quite put my finger on what I was missing. I used my training journal and got really clear on what I had felt on the first day, what I wanted to feel, and then thought about what I was missing.
I had decided on my 3-word checklist for the first class after my last lesson, and thought I had them nailed, but after thinking about it, there was one small adjustment I needed to make. Suppleness was one of my words, but for the second class, I changed it to 'Throughness', which for some may sound like the same thing; however, for me and the feeling I wanted, it was different!
This small change not only changed my warm-up plan, but it also changed how I rode my test and result aside, it made all the different to what I felt was a good test!

So my top tip for any show you have coming up, is get clear about the feeling you want and how you will go about getting it - remember the word you use to describe this only has to mean something to you!! 💪💪

25/07/2025

‼️CAUTION - BRUTALLY HONEST POST‼️

Everyone always says to me, 'You're so positive' or 'I wish I could be that positive' - truth bomb 💣 - IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT BEING POSITIVE!

I don't describe myself as particularly positive, but rather as resilient and realistic, which results in a positive reframe.
I spend a lot of time speaking about how to set goals and have a plan, but I wanted to mention when it doesn't go to plan!
Last year I had great plans - I sat down at the end of December as I normally do and made a rough plan for the horses; however, the reality is that only 1 of the horses actually achieved what we had set out to do. I could see this as a failure, I could get down on myself that setbacks and unexpected pauses in proceedings stopped me from achieving my goals - but did they really!?

The reality is no, they didn't - I just won't be doing them WHEN I expected, which if I'm honest ended up actually working out really well, as it turned out a different kind of pause in proceeding's was in store for us later that year! 🤰

When it doesn't go to plan, it's so important to realise that maybe this is in fact an opportunity to do it better.
I don't believe failure exists, I believe opportunity and learning are embedded within experiences, and no matter the type of experience, it has been sent for us to learn from it, our job is to work out what we can take away to inform going forward. I stand by, I'm not just positive, I just have had loads of experience in seeking the learning opportunities that lie in horses!! 🤣🤣

This enables me to reframe experiences to set my intention going forward! I am really looking forward to the opportunity of learning what our next chapter holds, both in life and horses!

21/07/2025

I DIDN’T KNOW IF I COULD DO IT AGAIN . . .

Starting your journey again with a young or new horse is one of the hardest things in our sport. One minute you're at the top of your game and the next it's time to start at the bottom again. It's a big mountain to be at the bottom of, don’t get me wrong I love producing my homebreds from the start of their career, but you always forget how much patience is needed.

When G retired it gave the perfect excuse to get cracking with Dotty and Boris, I set to giving them some positive competition experiences and building their confidence in the whiteboards. However, that self-doubt lingered as to whether I could do it all again and get to ride a second homebred in tails. I knew I had been super lucky to do it once so to do it again would be awesome but almost far-fetched as we all know with horses there are many setbacks!!

However, as time went on I realized that if I kept looking for things to go wrong they would!! I needed to keep looking for the evidence that I could do it, I had done it once, I could do it again. The very special thing that I had on Gkar was that I never expected him to go through the levels, I just kept training him and this was the very mindset I needed to apply again. Dotty did her first ever test in 2019 at Novice and did her first test in tails at the end of 2023, how did that happen? I knew that if I applied the Gkar mindset, stay focused on the horse you have, the training you're doing and your own journey, the outcome would take care of itself.

This is something I practice, talk about, and instil within anyone on the membership no matter their level or ability, you never know where your journey will take you so keep believing – where there is a will there is a way. 💪💪

19/07/2025

Annnddd that's a wrap!! I am now officially on maternity leave!
So, for now, I will be taking a break from my business accounts, but don't worry I have scheduled a few posts to keep the 'Amy' vibes rolling!

Thank you all for your support!
I will be checking in and replying to messages on my 'KIT' days, but for now, it's on to the next chapter! 😍

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