Blue Moon Riding School

It is a lovely sunny week this week, perfect for riding. If you are looking for a riding school for yourself or your child come and visit Blue Moon Riding School near the World of Birds. I offer private lessons and groups on our lovely horses. I take kids from 7 and adults are welcome even if you have no riding experience. I teach correct technique in a safe and encouraging non-competitive environment.

Please contact Jo for more info on 083 570 8770 or [email protected]

It feels like spring this week after the cold and wet last week! Now is a great time to come and ride, the weather is perfect!

Dori watching the storm. 60mls in 35 minutes!

The arena was amazingly mostly dry after the crazy storm this morning

I am so lucky to have the amazing new shelter in this awful weather. All the horses cuddled up together in the storm this morning.

I read a theory about why so many riders lack a deep command of basics, and it was explained like this---

Correct basics are hard to master because there is an enormous amount of repetition involved, and if someone has tried something hundreds, possibly thousands of times, and still can’t do it, it is easy for the person to conclude that he/she is taking on an impossible challenge.

In his book “Mastery,” George Leonard wrote that on the quest to become good, there will be long stretches of “seeming non-improvement.”

Like watching grass grow, change is happening, but so slowly that it can’t be measured daily, weekly, or even monthly. But at some point, for those who stick with it, “suddenly” they can do things that before they couldn’t do.

The issue is giving up in frustration before putting in those many many many many months of practice.

That is ONE theory. I am sure there are many others, but this one does ring true.

Pony camp at Blue Moon Riding School Hout Bay.
I will be running some pony camp days in the upcoming school holidays.
Camps are half days, 9am till 1pm and are R500 cash or R550 EFT.
I will run camps on the mornings that I have enough kids interested, minimum 6 kids. Days that could work are: 25/03; 27/03; 28/03 and 02/04. If it looks like it is going to be torrential rain we will reschedule but if it is light rain/showers we will go ahead as the arena is close to the stables and there are lots of fun and educational activities that we can do inside.
Ages from 7 up and all ability levels are welcome, I will group the kids according to age/ability as much as possible.
Pony camps are about having fun and learning about horses, we do ride but a lot of the time is spent on learning how to catch, brush, tack up, feed etc... With more experienced kids we learn more advanced concepts, fitting tack, prepping for a show, conformation etc...
For the riding part, beginners have a private lesson, more advanced kids we usually do something fun in a group, I give some ideas and let the kids decide.
I feed a snack, toasted cheese sandwiches, and we do a treasure hunt. If you are interested please send me when you are available, how many days you would like to do, and the age and ability of the kids if I don't know them.
I am also open for lessons and out rides as usual.
Kind regards
Jo 0835708770