Amazing animal photographer

On a horesforum someone showed some pictures taken by this photographer and I am just so impressed by her work that I have to share it here on my blog.

You can find her website here: http://www.wiebke-haas.de/cms/website.php?id=Equineart.html and her facebookpage here: http://www.facebook.com/wiebkehaas.animalphotography

To all the readers of my blog

I SEE YOU!

Thanks for reading my blog. It gives me the drive to keep on going!

Picture found here:http://web.stagram.com/p/372601464479959029_36036936

Gina Tricot Grand Prix

Once again Gina Tricot is releasing an collection when they sponser the Gina Tricot Grand Prix in Borås (Sweden).

I found a sneak preview on the collection on this blog: http://www.hippson.se/blogs/cissirules/smakprov-gina-tricot-gp.htm

I am suspecting that once again, when the Grand Prix is over, that the collection will be available for purchase on their online store ginatricot.com

Marzog

Found this video and thought I would share it. I think it is amazing to see old dressage videos and I like to see how dressage was back then, and how it has developed, both the good and bad sides.

Classical Training: The Psychology of Dressage, Coping with It All

Article from Eurodressage: Classical Training: The Psychology of Dressage, Coping with It All.



"I still remember one of my first ever dressage tests, when my stubborn shetland pony decided he would pick that day, of all days, to refuse to go into canter. I left the arena. I was an 8 year old in tears and my mother said to me, "If you ever leave the arena in that state again, I will give your pony away!"
I never forgot that and still to this day, I slap on a big smile at the final salute, even if on the inside I'm horribly disappointed. The lesson that my mother was trying to highlight was that our sport should be fun and we should remember that we are there to enjoy it. At the end of the day, win, lose, break in the canter, or pig-root over the puddles, you should both, horse and rider, be having fun!
However, while every athlete faces many pressures in their pursuit of success, the sport of dressage is particularly complex, especially given that we are not the only emotional entity in the arena. When a runner loses a race, they can easily reflect and decide what they can improve on, or where they went wrong. A rider can do this to a certain extent, but if your horse suddenly leaps out of the ring for no apparent reason, it is a little more complicated to ask him why he chose that moment to do so. Sometimes we try so hard to do the perfect test, that we forget to ride it, or our horse senses our tension, and won't let us ride it. Whatever the reason, in dressage we face many ups and downs, in and out of the arena.

We have all left a competition frustrated that our best test was marked particularly badly, while the test we thought was a complete shamble put us in first place.  We all know the rather puzzling realization, or self critique, that we seem to be doing worse this week, rather than better. Or that at our last competition we believed we had finally mastered something, only to have it return at a greater degree at the competition following. "

Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.eurodressage.com/equestrian/2012/11/21/classical-training-psychology-dressage-coping-it-all

New Year's resolutions

Since I have been slacking quite abit on this blog, I have decided to make a list of New Year's resolutions for my bloggin.


1. Blog more!

2. Bloggin about alot of other things than just horses, since I love reading aswell, I will start smacking in some book reviews aswell.

3. Find more dressage articles and videos to share with you guys!

4. 2013 is going to be the year when I finally got my own horse again, everything went down the crapper this summer when I finally thought I had it all settled down, so now I want make my dream happen in this new year!

5. Get more readers!

Happy New Year everyone!