I generally hate technology, but there’s no denying that it’s pretty cool to give a live lesson to someone in another country.
It’s often the case that people are struggling with their horses and just don’t know what to do to remedy the issues, or how. It’s also incredibly often that they get advice that’s lacking, or worse.
Experience isn’t the best teacher it’s the most expensive. It gives the test first and the lesson after. Rent mine. Let me see what’s going on for myself.
We do this in either of two ways. It’s your choice and both options are just $70/lesson. You just fill out the form below, we schedule a day and time and an invoice is sent via paypal or your preferred online payment platform.
1) You can send me up to 20 minutes of video(s). I will put that video into an editor and send it back with slow motion, pauses, rewinds, drawings to highlight certain things, and voiceover of what I am seeing, what it means, and how to deal with it. For context, that 20 minutes of video is usually 45 min to an hour once I edit it.
2) We can also set up an hour long phone call, zoom meeting, or video call. In this way we can talk in real time, and I can even watch you ride and talk to you while it’s happening. This has proven to be a very popular offering.
We just got a very nice email from the lady in Canada that I gave a live virtual lesson to in May. Just a little history, her horse is 16, came from a trail riding situation in Kentucky where he was considered bomb proof, and has now developed a bolting issue. She’s had a local trainer do a couple of months of additional training, harsher bits, locals at her barn offering their advice, burned a ritualistic hockey puck in Tim Horton’s parking lot, etc. All to no avail.
We worked on calming him through softening and I noticed a slight hind end lameness that for whatever reason looked neurological to me, so she called out her vet. Horses with EPM have always presented to me like their erratic behaviors are caused by something along the lines of an electric shock when they move certain ways. I’d probably bolt too.
I truly detest this self-promotion stuff, but, I’m not a fan of starving to death either and what follows aren’t my words anyway… She writes:
“Hi Daniel,
I just wanted to thank you again, I really can’t express my gratitude enough. My vet came out today and he concurs with your assessment of Nacho and wants to treat him for EPM. He said EPM is very uncommon here in southern Ontario and he has only seen 2 cases in 25 years. He said Nacho is very neurologic looking to him and being that he was only imported from Kentucky in May 2021, it really all adds up for him.
He is going to get meds for him to start asap but advised no riding until he responds to his medication. He’s hopeful I will see a dramatic improvement in his symptoms after about month into the course of meds.
I really am hoping for the best too. Because you pointed us in the right direction so quickly after his symptoms started, the vet said he has a good chance of recovery from this. I’m hoping to be back to riding Nacho soon and I will definitely be in touch to take more virtual lessons. You did more for me and my horse in an hour than I could have imagined and I really do appreciate the help.
Thank again for everything and I will be in touch as soon as Nacho is cleared for riding
Jennifer”
I’m happy to say that she’s now riding Nacho again and his treatment is almost over. We’re doing virtual lessons again and he is improving rapidly and is expected to make a full recovery. He’s also back to the temperament that he had when she first got him.
