Quick Start Intensive Riding Program
This innovative program is designed to give the beginner rider a solid foundational experience in riding and in horsemanship over the span of 8 lessons.
In cooperation with the instructor who will be teaching the class, each student will have an assistant during the sixteen hours of the program. With this assistant at their side, the student can freely concentrate on learning how to control their body and maintain the correct position on the horse without the additional demands of trying to control the horse.
Because each rider has an assistant in this program, the safety benefits are obvious. However, the speed at which children can master basic skills is also unprecedented. Riding ability as well as horsemanship knowledge are gained at a remarkable rate and as studies continue to prove, these skills are valuable assets for young people to acquire and can be carried with the student into other applications of their life.
Here's what they'll learn:
- How to stay safe around horses
- How to understand the horses’ body language
- Understand the horses’ nature
- How to groom a horse
- How to tack up a horse
- How to lead a horse
- How to get on a horse correctly and safely
- Know what a correct basic position feels like
- How to ask the horse to halt
- How to perform rising trot
- How to lengthen and shorten the horses’ reins
- How to give coherent, basic signals to the horse
- How to recognize and change their trotting diagonals
- How to ride basic school figures
- How to negotiate around obstacles
- How to guide the horse over trot rails
- How to practice sitting trot
- How to look after their horse’s equipment
- How to be responsible for their equine partner after their ride
- Different colours and breeds of horses
- Some stable management skills (Horse’s vital signs, signs of illness, etc.)
The Quick-Start Intensive Riding Program
provides a solid foundation upon which more advanced skills can be built.
For 40 years, we have seen students learn invaluable life skills. Resilience, problem solving, responsibility, self-discipline, empathy, and confidence are all things that the horse teaches. The students finish the program more capable, more confident, and more self-assured than when they arrived.
We’re offering 2 sessions:
Spring
Mondays: April 13, 20, 27, May 4, 11, 25, June 1, 8 at 4-6pm
Summer
Tuesdays & Thursdays: July 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30
at 4:30-6:30pm
Tuition for this 8-week transformation is available in two payment options:
Pay in full (best deal!)
$895.00
Pay in two monthly instalments of
$460.00
What’s Included: In addition to the sixteen hours of intensive instruction, this fee includes taxes, helmet and boot rental, as well as all notebooks and course notes. Attendance for all eight consecutive classes is encouraged so that the beginner rider does not fall behind or miss important building blocks in the program. For the sake of the integrity of the class, makeups cannot be offered.
If your child is not happy in the program after the second lesson, we offer a full 100% money back guarantee!
Since there are only 6 spots available in each session, all applications will be time-stamped and places will be awarded on a first-come basis.