Twenty years of teaching as taught Brett Parbery a lot about how riders learn!
Optimising your learning as a rider
By Brett Parbery
Having taught dressage riders in private and clinic settings for more than 20 years, Brett Parbery has had plenty of time to do some serious learning himself about how riders learn.
The standard ‘lesson’ just isn’t enough
When you speak to riders who’ve spent time training in high performance settings, you find out that as much learning happens off the horse as it does in the saddle. Chats in the stable block, watching riders train horse after horse after horse, reading and discussing ideas over a meal (or a glass of wine!) is infinitely valuable to a rider, but unfortunately, most riders I ask don’t get much of a chance to partake in these kinds of off-the-horse activities.
These types of discussions are precisely what the usual 45-minute lesson format doesn’t offer; that is, the opportunity to discuss ideas and techniques in depth, and I believe this is essential for riders to fully understand what they need to do, and why…
Read the full article in the August 2020 issue of Equestrian Life magazine here.
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