Lessons - Codecoupled

Moving forward and jumping higher

A lesson aimed at practising more than just the riding between the fences. We started off with some ground poles on a volte, first in trot and then in canter, to get the horses warmed up. We also added a smaller volte on the short side, where we began with

Show jumping

Bounces all the way down

The wonderful thing about Nemah is that Nemah is a wonderful thing! Her ears are pointed forward Her legs are just like springs! She’s bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun! Tigger's Song from Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too Bounces, bounces, bounces. Not just one or

Nemah

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend

At last another lesson in academic riding. This time Suz had planned a really difficult exercise for us: The diamond. The diamond is ridden between the middle of the sides of the arena. To make it a bit more interesting I was told to test different ways to put my

Dressage

There is no such thing as talent

No, really, there isn’t. The only way to reach your goal is to work hard and learn to push back when things get hard. And this day, me and Nemah pushed back! We started working on that canter of ours. The one that just keeps running away from us.

Nemah

Turns turns turns

Time for a new show jumping lesson. Lennart and Timmen joined us again, making it a perfect family evening. This lesson started off with the whole group trotting ground poles. When Marie was happy with us all, she told us to ride small circles before and after the middle pole.

Nemah

The fences have fangs

One thing I find really strange about Nemah is this: As long as we jump every week she jumps like a normal horse, but as soon as she gets a week off she starts behaving like the fences have fangs. Nemah seems convinced that the fences will eat her alive

Nemah

More working equitation

Time for some Working Equitation. This time it was only me and Karin riding, almost like getting the instructor, Jackie, all to myself. We started with some free riding as a warmup, but after a while Jackie gathered us together and told us to ride on a big volte and

Nemah

Not so fast any more

Since the lesson with Maria I have really tried to think about how I want Nemah to work and how we communicate. Time to try it out in reality with a show jumping lesson. The conditions wasn't the best this day. I fell of Nemah a couple of weeks ago

Academic Dressage

Academic dressage

Academic dressage is something me and Nemah has been doing for a long time. The most significant difference between ordinary dressage and the academic one is that the academic focuses a lot on the rider. As a rider you are supposed to help the horse perform the best it can,

Nemah

Practise makes better

A new lesson in show jumping. This time Lennart joined me on Spex in addition to the usual three ponies. The warmup was free, followed by three trotting poles on a volte. The middle pole was raised a bit from the ground. Nemah felt really great this day, she listened

Dressage

Telepathic riding

Maria Sundin is a riding instructor and coach from the south of Sweden. I had not heard of her before this lesson and was just curious to see how she would let the lesson play out and what I might learn from her. I shared the one hour lesson with

Nemah

Higher, faster, more...

Time for another show jumping lesson at the neighbouring stable. This day Nemah understood what was going on as soon as we entered the arena. There were fences and they were there to be jumped! Nemah just couldn’t stand still and shortening my stirrup leathers was almost impossible. It

Nemah

Low flying jet plane

New day, new lesson. This time in show jumping, with the next door stable owner, Marie, as our trainer. The ride started with a couple of half crazy-horses running around in a paddock just outside the arena. On the inside we had five equally tense horses wondering what all the

Nemah

Working Equitation

I have decided to try to put my riding lessons in print, partly because I think there are people out there that might find them interesting, but mostly as a way for myself to analyse our progress. Recently we rode a lesson in Working Equitation (WE). WE is a bit

Nemah

Riding for Paolo Bastos

For a while now I’ve been hearing about this great trainer that makes magic, training horses and riders. When a possibility to ride a lesson for him turned up I naturally took the chance. The lesson started right on time, something very unusual when dealing with horses. We started