Although I’m not a competition rider, I love puzzling over complex contact issues. The horse I owe almost all my practical, experience-based knowledge to is the one you see in the videos above. This horse was given to me by a client who could no longer ride him with a bit. It took years to develop his training, and although I never perfected it—especially after we discovered and operated on a fracture in his TMJ—he has been an incredible teacher. He’s helped me understand and resolve complex training challenges with other rider-horse combinations as well.

While I don’t widely promote it, I do offer riding lessons, mostly for advanced dressage riders. Together, we work on solving the puzzle of improving contact. I don’t follow a single, fixed style; instead, I adapt based on each horse's needs. For example, with horses who tend to shorten their necks, like my own, we focus on encouraging lengthening. For horses that lean on the rider’s hands, we work to develop a more balanced, self-supporting frame.