BRC Presents:

Sunday 25th August 2024 - TRAINING DAY

FLAT WORK GROUPS WITH EMILY BREEZE

• 3 groups of 5 - starting at 9.45am 
• Sand arena 2
• $30 PER RIDER

Flatwork over Poles with Emily Breeze

The wonderful Emily is back and will be giving flatwork lessons over poles for groups of up to four riders – cost will be $30 for the hour long group lesson. Emily’s lessons will take place in the sand dressage arena.
About Emily –
Emily Breeze is an EA Level 1 General Coach and Level 2 Dressage rider. She competed in all disciplines, before pursuing Dressage and competing up to Advanced level with British Dressage.

Emily aims to help riders achieve a greater understanding of how to get the best from their horse, enabling them to reach their goals. She is passionate about helping you and your horse to be the best you can be – totally committed to helping everyone improve with a systematic, sympathetic and classical approach using the
scale of training.

IMPROVING YOUR XC SKILLS WITH FIONA GRUEN

• 3 groups of 4 - starting at 11.00am
• Water Jump side of XC Course (tbc)
• You MUST be warmed up prior to your group start time (ie you could do a group with Emily beforehand ...)
• $60 PER RIDER

Fiona is back to build on the cross-country training provided at our May training day.
The focus for Fiona’s lessons will be on use of different types of seat while travelling between fences and over different terrain, and how this affects the balance of the horse. We hope to have water jump available for schooling.
About Fiona –
Fiona has a wealth of experience with over 55 years involved in eventing, including coaching for over 45 years. In recent years she has been the power behind the Canberra Horse Trials' very successful media campaigns. Her passion is helping horses and riders develop partnerships based on the foundation principles of confidence and trust from grass roots to 4*.
About the training -
Lessons will be conducted in groups of four riders, each lasting an hour, and cost $60 per rider. As mentioned above, the focus for these lessons is on rider position and how this affects balance.
Group 1: A novice rider/green horse group will start in an enclosed area, and continuation out onto the cross country course will be depend on their progress over the initial exercises.
Group 2: For horse and rider combinations with some previous experience schooling over cross country fences.
Group 3: For riders with prior experience and confidence jumping XC out and about.

All riders out on the cross-country course will be required to wear an EA approved back protector.

INTRO TO ARCHERY WITH LIBERTY DEAMAN

• 2 half day groups of 6 - first group starting at 8.30am to 12.00pm and second group starting at 12.30pm to 4pm  (first group to be filled first)
• Main arena designated area
• $145 PER RIDER

About Liberty
Liberty Deaman is currently the highest ranked Australian horse archer (88th in the world) and was the highest scoring Australian rider at the 2023 World Championships, held in Mongolia. She is currently the Australian Representative on the International Horse Archery Alliance and has been active in the Australian Horse Archery Association (as a general member and committee member) for the past 5 years. Liberty and her husband Rodney founded Riding With Sticks in late 2023 and have had great local success with bringing horse archery and ridden skill at arms to the local and surrounding regions.

About the training
This is an introduction clinic and assumes that you and your horse have never attempted horse archery. All components will be done at the walk. Cost is $145 for 3.5hrs of instruction and includes all archery equipment required.
The day will be split into two cohorts (morning and afternoon), with each cohort being given 3 group lessons over 3.5hrs. Riders in both sessions will commence mounted for an introduction to moving their horse throughout the archery run and training techniques (approximately 30min). Riders will then be instructed in the archery techniques from the ground, including safe carrying of equipment while on horseback, loading of arrows, shooting, targeting and safe retrieval of arrows (approximately 1hr). Following a short break, riders will return to the arena with their horses, and the remaining time will be used to introduce the horses to the bows and arrows, and where safe to do so (with consideration for the horses’ response to the equipment) commence basic shooting from horseback at the walk.

Morning session: Participants to be ready to ride at 8:30am. Session will end no later than 12pm. There will be a small break at approximately 10:30am but otherwise the participation will be continuous.
Afternoon Session - Participants to be ready to ride at 12:30pm. Session will end no later than 4pm.

Equipment requirements
All archery equipment is provided by Liberty including bow, arrows, targets and arm protection. Riders can ride in their regular tack but must have a monkey strap or similar for the front of the saddle.

Please note that we are sharing the grounds - AMERIGO HORSEMANSHIP have the covered arena and the yards closest to it all weekend and there will be cattle on site 

Lunch
We are sharing the grounds with Brett Laundess of Amerigo Horsemanship, who will be using the covered arena.

Please park and use yards away from this area. BRC members can purchase a delicious lunch and refreshments provided by Amerigo, but please let us know if you wish to do this so we can provide them with numbers for catering.

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