Flint Ridge Farm

Small show, but the weather will be great! Everyone have a great weekend!

One minor update at the end of the day....

Please sign up! 😁
We can’t do it without volunteers!!! ❤️🙏

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❤️ And look at that position. Is he behind the vertical driving his seat into his horse’s back? No. It’s just lovely.

NEDA stands for “New England Dressage Association, “ and each early fall NEDA hosts absolute top of the line clinicians for an end of season clinic.

One year that I went, it was at U-Mass, Amherst, and Klaus Balkenhol was the clinician. He’d been the coach, among many other accomplishments, of the gold medal winning German Olympic dressage team.

Right at the start he insisted that the riders WALK for AT LEAST 10 minutes, He said something like, “Most riders don’t give their horses enough time to warm up correctly. Wear a watch, because if you are a hurry up person, 10 minutes will seem like half an hour.” Not in those words, but that’ was the gist.

Over the years since then, I have repeated what Klaus said to dozens, probably hundreds of riders, and now to the point of this post---

Even though that message came from one of the most successful riders and trainers in the world, not many of the riders that I gave Balkenhol’s advice to, took it. Some did, but for most it went in one ear and out the other. They were either too impatient, or they knew better than Klaus, or something.

That type of response---lack of response is a better term---proves something, I think---

I won’t say it, what I think. See if YOU can figure it out?

Photos from the show!!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M1I0J4wjovrhRB4MOWJKj5z0xynigX7_