I am often not asked by clients what do I do, what do I train, how do i train. Usually people have found me over the years from my website. Some people come feeling as though they already know me from my "about" posting over the past 12 or so years.
With the recent business move to TMF equestrian center, in San Martin. and Brian and mine's recent volunteerism with the Coe State park, people are asking me. What do you train, how do you train, etc. At first I was at a loss for words, it felt strange to be out of my zone where people already found me instead of me venturing out into the world.
I always thought the website title "equestriantraining" said it all, because I do it all. I start young horses giving them a good foundation in their first rides, I work with riders of all disciplines -- Dressage, Jumping, Western - on balance, position and how it affects the horses movement. Training horses is like physical therapy, feeling and or seeing the parts of the horse that are crooked. How when asked to go straight, it bends like a pretzel and does the crab crawl where it wants to go. Horses with old injuries, not in active pain, but crooked or loopsided from the time compensating for an injury. Problem solving, looking at the horses behavior and analyzing why it behaves as it does, bites, bucks, refuses to trailer load, paws while standing, walks inceasantly in its stall or corral. All of these things are equestrian training -- all things equestrian.
We all begin somewhere and can end up somewhere else.

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