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Equestrians -
I wanted to thank Sun Pony Ranch for hosting our Unser Hafen Equestrian Mini-Collegium Practice yesterday. The weather held out very nice for us, which was wonderful! We had 11 riders and 10 horses in attendance, just the right number for us all to be able to work together. Once again the SPR horses worked out very nicely, and we are so pleased to have that option. I also want to thank everyone who came out yesterday. I hope you enjoyed yourselves. We were so excited to be able to try out the new double quintain, which most of the horses adapted to very well!!
Tegan and I chatted a bit last night, and we also chatted with Moyra about ideas for next time, and we would like to get everyone else's feedback as well. This was a trial run this time, and as such we know that some things went better than others. We tried some new things and worked off of what had gone well at the last practice. For those of you who attended please e-mail back to us the following ideas so that we can plan for the future -
1. What you enjoyed the most
2. What didn't work as well for you
3. Ideas for next time
Think about:
- Structure (Too flexible? Not flexible enough?)
- The activities themselves (do you prefer practicing whole items - rings, obstacle course; or smaller pieces to work on specific, isolated skills (leg yeild/spear throwing? or some of both like we attempted yesterday? Do you want more instruction before you start each activity? Or would that be overkill?)
- The off horse activities (would you like to see more of this? Our first collegium had much more off horse activity planned, but we chopped most of it out for yesterday to maximize riding time),
- Feedback (what kind of critical feedback/advice/tips/techniques would you like? Do you want more? less? From who?)
For those of you who couldn't attend, we still want your feedback too! Just tell us what kinds of activities you MOST want to practice at our practices.
Feel free to e-mail your comments to the whole group or just back to Tegan or I.
We have two half day practices still to come this summer - July 18 and August 15 with Tailteann Games (our really COOL champions event) in the middle on August 1 which is also out at Sun Pony Ranch.
Thanks!
Nesta
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