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.