CB Equestrian Coach

05/31/2024

🦄🏡 Fabulous horse property in Cu***ng!

If you are interested and would like to view with a buyer’s agent who is an Equestrian Properties Specialist and who will guide you all the way, call me today! 678-510-9916 🦄🏡

PRICED UNDER APPRAISED VALUE!! Welcome to an exclusive haven for equestrian enthusiasts in the heart of South Forsyth! Ask listing agent about a total of 352' of road frontage by acquiring neighboring property. Nestled on a sprawling 12-acre parcel, this secluded equestrian paradise offers the perfe...

04/26/2024

🦄 Featured Equestrian Property in Cherokee County!

Horse friends - don't miss this opportunity! 🏡🦄

Equestrian property on just over 4 acres in Cherokee County.
Lovely home, on peaceful Roper Road with 3-stall barn, tack and feed rooms, arena and pasture.

With 4 beds and 3 baths, front porch, primary suite on main, spacious dining room, eat-in kitchen and over-sized living room with floor to ceiling stone fireplace, and much more, this is a perfect family home or small farm.

Contact me to schedule a tour! 📲

673 Roper Road, Canton, GA 30115
4 beds I 3 baths I 4322sqft
Offered for $1,000,000
Listed by The Hester Group I Harry Norman REALTORS

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11/02/2022

Riding instruction available for children (age 8 and over) and adults, from beginner to First level dressage/Training level eventing, within 30 minutes of Milton, GA.

01/05/2022

Arrival day exercise -Pine Top 2020

09/17/2021

Thanks Lisa!

Contact is DYNAMIC not FIXED

As a dressage rider myself, I feel I can call us out for being one of the worst offenders of this as riders.

We tend to hold contact too rigidly, and for too long, in a stagnant frame that lacks actual SELF carriage.

Contact is a reference point towards SELF carriage and balance. If constant weighted contact is required to hold your horse in a frame, I'm going to question how much SELF carriage the horse actually has.

It is a common question in the dressage world "How much weight should I feel in my hands with contact?"

Short answer...NONE.

Or as Charles de Kunffy says "The rider should merely feel the weight of the bit or reins in soft, closed hands... So long as there is weight that must be held or sustained by the rider, the horse is not in self carriage."

It is the norm that many dressage riders feel POUNDS of weight in their hands on the regular, and some even feel this to be a "good" thing.

Their is no SELF carriage in weighted, strong, or FIXED contact.

Dynamic means "a process or system characterized by constant change."

If your contact is not changing enough, it goes from a reference point of balance and SELF carriage, to a park bench of stagnant leaning and dependency.

Now of course there will be moments of heaviness or tension as the horse is learning to supple and balance. But as the horse develops, you should be feeling more and more lightness as the horse educates into more moments of self carriage. If more then 50% of you're ride is routinely heavy or strong, then you're likely not working towards self carriage.

Here are some photos of two developing horses. Look at how many times the contact and frame changes in a single ride. There are moments of heaviness, moments of lightness, and I am constantly changing the frame to help the horse lengthen or lighten within changes of balance. It's a very dynamic conversation, not a fixed position or frame.

04/22/2021

. . . riding is all about: the on-going, perpetual process of sending the horse forward toward the bit. This suggests the big secret: the horse never arrives on the bit. . .
- Charles de Kunffy, Dressage Questions Answered

04/17/2021

Fun morning teaching at Fusion Stables with Laura and sweet Ronin and great to see Alisha back in the saddle on the lovely Ostara!

04/14/2021

Significant changes over a few lessons by increasing rider’s postural awareness, access to driving aids and self-carriage-and all reflected in the horse!
Would you like to see similar changes in your riding and your horse?
Call me! 678-510-9916

04/14/2021

Linda and Ostara making great progress with their trot work today!