These girls showed up today and dressed up as some of the emotions of Inside Out for their lessons. Truly made my day!
KH Eventing Barn wants to give a huge shout out to our new sponsor Coat Defense. The lesson program is so happy to be partnered with them to help keep our lesson horses in top shape!
If you are interested in trying coat defense or curious on how it works, please send us a message!!
With show season officially being underway, we have been working hard to fine-tune our adjustability.
Most recently, we went to a @lucinda_green clinic and worked on adjustability in both the #crosscountry and #showjumping phases
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Klaus’s first ride with our head trainer Kaitlin - what an amazing brain for a 3yr old. We are looking forward to what the next few months with this guy bring.
Focusing on developing your seat and utilizing it to reinforce what you’re asking through your leg and hands is one of the foundational skills we teach at KH Eventing.
In these clips, you can see myself and some of our awesome students of KH Eventing using their seat in different ways.
From sitting still as they transition downwards, encouraging an upward transition by driving the horse forward, or providing support to a distance - long or short. Learning and mastering this aid is what allows riders to quickly adjust on course or in the dressage arena.
Which of the 3 aids was the most difficult for you to refine?
After teaching riders how to follow with their hands, we focus on developing a quality connection. A crucial skill for success in dressage, cross country, and show jumping.
Hands are taught to be thought of as guide-rails for controlling speed, impulsion, direction, and transitions.
Exercises include utilizing two poles placed on the long side of the arena to practice adjusting stride length and adding in smooth upward or downward transitions. From there, we add in small courses, asking the same thing, gradually increasing difficulty.
As riders develop the ability to keep impulsion and connection, they begin to get a instinctively gain a feel for what small adjustments are needed throughout a course or dressage test to keep their horse in tune with what is to be asked of them next.
How do you work on creating an elastic arm that follow? It’s debatably one of the hardest things to do.
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Teaching riders how to create hands that follow is an art. For us, you will see a lot of pole and grid work to teach this. That is because once you’re in the grid, there is very little adjusting you can do. Get in tight? Give your horse their mouth and let them work through it. Get in a smidge long? Grab mane, chest up, and stay off their back.
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From there, it is all about repetition until having an arm that follows becomes second nature.
Summer Camp Announcement
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We have just released our summer camp dates and are looking forward to having new and returning faces this year. DM to reserve your spot or ask questions. We will have horseback riding, crafts, games, and more!
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Camp Dates:
- June 5th - 9th
- June 12th - 16th
- July 3rd - 7th
- July 24th - 28th
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Camp is from 9am - 1pm, campers should come with their own lunch.
- Price: $350
- Deposit: $100
- Campers will receive a backpack and T-Shirt
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