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Articles by Barbra Schulte
Less is More: Don't Overshow
This is a difficult topic to talk about. But I’m going to make the case for not overshowing your horse. You probably ride your horse for 30 minutes to an hour a day when you’re at home, or you take an hour-long lesson. But some competitors get to a show and end up riding 10, or even 15 hours a day. They start first thing in the morning and show all day till late at night, only to get up and do it again the next day.
Showmanship Tune-Up
Showmanship at halter tests you and your horse’s ability to confidently work as a team and execute a series of maneuvers on the ground. The great part about this class is that most horses of all price points can do it. I’ve seen horses that compete in reining, English, and Western pleasure events all be successful in showmanship. [READ: FIX SHOWMANSHIP DULLNESS] Confidence and correctness will help you improve your showmanship score at your next horse show.
Ritual Will Cure Your Horse-Show Jitters
Select a catchphrase that encourages you and provides key reminders, then link it over time to a confident posture, a feeling of relaxation, and a visualization of performing at your absolute best. Mallory Beinborn Do you get nervous before competing at an event? Most people do. Fortunately, there’s a way not only to calm your horse-show jitters, but also to prepare you to perform your very best.
The Perfect Horse With the Perfect Rider Is an Illusion
The Perfect Horse With the Perfect Rider Is an Illusion Personal performance coach and professional horse trainer Barbra Schulte explains how to concentrate on the moment to create overall horse-showing success. No discipline is immune from performance envy. Here, Barbra Schulte explains how to master your horse-showing psychology.
Ritual Will Cure Your Horse-Show Jitters
A pre-show ritual can do more than just cure your horse-show jitters; this one enables you to be focused, energized, and eager to perform. Do you get nervous before competing at an event? Most people do. Fortunately, there’s a way not only to calm your horse-show jitters, but also to prepare you to perform your very best. To give that blue-ribbon effort, you must call up a state of mind, body, and emotion that enables you to be calm, focused, and confident.
6 ways for riders to stay calm amid life changes
I love studying how we can be fulfilled, happy and calm with our horses, even amid the inevitable and often stressful changes that occur in our lives. Learning how to be my best around horses led me to become trained as a Personal Performance Coach for riders in all disciplines. I teach “mental skills” to equestrians. Utilizing mental skills – the ability to ride at your highest level on demand, in any situation, with a highly fine-tuned sense of calmness and focus – is a learned ability.
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