25. September 2018
Letztes Wochenende war ich zum zweiten Mal dieses Jahr in Österreich bei Familie Höller auf dem Islandpferdehof Schönleiten. Es war ein tolles Wochenende auf einem der schönsten Pferdehöfe den ich kenne! Die Aussicht von diesem Reitplatz ist einfach unglaublich. Aber neben der tollen Aussicht, der guten Organisation und der tollen rundum Versorgung stand natürlich das Islandpferde im Mittelpunkt. Behandelte Themen waren unter anderem die Durchlässigkeit, das Pass-Gen und Beurteilung vom...
01. May 2018
One topic always turns back in my clinics, that is how to ride a horse forward without riding fast. So what is it about riding slow but forward? Use the forward thinking but don't hold the horse back, but keep it slow. Most of you probably have heard one of those sentences. For me this forward drive is the positive working attitude in a horse. If you have to push every step out of a horse without any initiative from the horse it gets hard to communicate with light aids. Which is the goal after...
04. October 2016
Next weekend I get to hold a weekend course for the 3rd time this year at a great place in France, called Ecurie de la Collien Vivante. Here everything comes together that makes a great, interesting and fun course. A beautiful and well maintained riding arena, participants who really want to learn and do the best for their horses and are constantly improving. My courses always consist out of 5 practical and 2 theoretical lessons. In the practical lessons I try to pick up every horse and rider...
21. March 2016
How to explain what Gæðingafimi stands for. It is a form of Dressage Test which is getting more and more interest in Iceland. And because the possibility to follow the Icelandic Master league (www.meistardeild.is) through the internet it gets also more attention all over Europe. But Gæðingafimi is more than the normal Dressage test. It gives the possibility to connect every aspect of the Icelandic horse and it gives also the possibility to show what it has to offer: Gaits, energy, calmness,...
25. November 2015
September was travelling time for me. I went for 2 weeks to Germany and met some wonderful people and horses. I started out with holding a Clinic at Reitschule Nordpferde. That was a great course with the focus on how bending the horse right improves the horse and especially the means on how you communicate with your horse to help him to bend right. Afterwards I received an e-mail from a participant which gave me so much joy. In that e-mail she talked about how much my sharing the idea of...
04. October 2015
Autumn comes with big steps and with that my time in Iceland is getting shorter. I like to share some really good times I had. One of my favorite memories this summer is competing on Karen frá Árgerði in Gæðingakeppni A flokkur. Gæðingakeppni is the traditional Icelandic competition form where it is all about showing the horse, his spirit and gaits at its best so you could imagine it as a breedingshow for every horse. Karen is an amazing fun mare. I got to know her first when a friend of...
27. August 2015
Summer in Iceland is a special time. It's the time of never ending days, nightly ridingtours and it's always fast to go by. It started for me with my mare, Eldbrá frá Litla-Garði going for breeding evaluation. After the winter training she did well and I am the proud owner of a first price mare with 7,78 for building and 8,28 ridingabilities and 8,08 total. Now I'm looking forward to compete on her.
07. June 2015
After over 5 years in Iceland, learning, gaining more experience, graduating from Hólar University with a BSc in Equine Science and Riding Instruction and of course after a great time here in Litli-Garður training a big variety of horses new experiences are coming up. With the 1st of January 2016 I will be moving to Holland. There I will focus next to training horses also more on my passion for teaching horses and riders. That makes it far easier to be available for weekend courses and also...
20. May 2015
The first may weekend I had a nice intensive course with 10 really interested and fun students. It was from Friday to Sunday. On Friday I started with trying out all the horses to get my own idea of them to be able to help the owners even better. On Saturday it went on with a practical lesson befor lunch and after lunch with some theoretical lesson in between. There were always two riders in one lesson to secure the optimal possibility to follow and help them. The overall topic was the rein...