The price was right, so I signed up for one lesson.
I sent her a questionnaire with information about myself and Hampton, my goals, our struggles, etc. And then sent her a 20 minute video of us schooling.
I kept the good, the bad and the ugly in that video.
(These 3-tempis were pretty good, but you can see he still gets croup-high on occasion. We get away with this in the 4s and 3s but it can't happen in the 2s)
After 2 or 3 days, she sent back an absolutely amazing 7-page PDF full of exercises, advice, instruction and other comments regarding our video and overall picture. PLUS, she sent an audio file of her comments while she was watching our video in real time. I was so pleasantly surprised at 1) the quality of the instruction and 2) the professional manner in which everything was done.
She seemed very sweet as well, and had many wonderful comments on both what we do well, and what we need to work on.
My big goal currently is to try and improve Hampton's overall way of going. I'm not worried about the movements as he is a smart boy and we all know he can pick those up. But he is still downhill and flat, and I know there is only so much I can do but I don't think he is tapped out yet. She has loads of great advice and I have been using her exercises nearly everyday since.
She is officially launching this online training program in about a month and I fully intend to keep up with these virtual lessons. Would be great to do this once a month or so! It's just really nice to have another set of eyes and a fresh perspective on things. Her advice was spot on
By the way she also gives online coaching for jumpers, too!
A thumbs up from me!
I just found your blog through Leah's recap from Kentucky, so Hi! Anyway... This is a really interesting concept! Might be fun to try when I get back to jumping!
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ReplyDeleteThis is really fucking cool and I'm glad she was super thorough!
ReplyDeleteI love when horse people accept that we're in a digital age and integrate that into their training. I'm surprised that the PDF was so detailed and lengthy. How wonderful of her and what a nice reference to have!
ReplyDeleteWOW! I'm really impressed. I've always been curious about this kind of thing - thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI have been skeptical about this concept, but this looks like one where they actually invested effort into it to make it worthwhile -- that sounds like really great feedback & I would definitely consider this as a tool in the future, thanks for sharing!
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