Lydenburg Natural Horsemanship RidingFacility

01/04/2026

Going slower for the smaller kiddies....Teamwork!

01/04/2026

Keeping them busy, while waiting for team members

01/04/2026

Time to get a girlfriend ..... or two🤣

01/04/2026

Vakansie tyd!! Teamwork

26/03/2026

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Horses seek unity of balance with their riders whether they are on the Olympic level or a beginner lesson horse. If a rider wants to improve, they must understand this principle of horses seeking unity on deeper levels of balance and movement. In short, Riders must become a BETTER BROOM.

I was galloping flat out in a polo game. I heard a pop. It was a billet snapping apart on my saddle as a result of my horse's powerful strides (I don't use elastic girth in polo). Then I heard a second pop. My saddle was then unattached and bouncing around on my horse's back. My horse slowed. As the saddle bounced to the left, my horse moved left to come under it. It bounced right and my horse moved under the saddle to the right. My horse was seeking to balance me in unity with them.

I did eventually hit the ground but not at 35 or 40 mph. My horse's desire and instinct to find a shared balance with me had saved me from serious injury.

The intensity of moments like my polo experience underlines a rider's responsibility to not make the horse's impulse to achieve unity of balance more difficult. The best of us sometimes makes their horse's work to achieve shared balance harder. Sadly, many riders today make that work impossible, and that impossibility causes horses to eventually give up and become apathetic to the constant imbalance with their riders.

Such horses are ruined by this constant failure of riders to achieve unity with them. They give up and become nearly impossible to retrain to seek shared balance, which is sad. Riders, become a BETTER BROOM!

26/03/2026

26/03/2026

Riding a horse is one of the most biomechanically demanding things a human body can do.

Most people don't know that. Riders sometimes forget it.

Eccentric muscle control. Deep stabilizer activation. Strength through various ranges of motion. Full-body coordination... all happening simultaneously, continuously, on a moving surface.

No other pursuit asks for all of that at once.

Done well, riding builds balance, injury resilience, and movement efficiency that carries into everything else you do.

Your body is being educated every time you ride.

The question is whether it's learning what you want it to learn.💃🐎

23/03/2026

Mini attack on River

23/03/2026

Uithourit 80 km. Diego, Hugs, Tuxxedo en Amigo

23/03/2026

Diego and Foxy lady, at a show

23/03/2026

I dont know which is worst...a parent lying, telling me the child has no time to ride, or to find that that child is riding at someone elses place, with no qualifications, no experience, and no safety measurements in place other than wearing a helmet, all because of how rich you are...i cannot compete with rich people...then again, do I want to0?....I have God on my side, not money

19/03/2026

Diego, your place is emptt