Supporting Students As A Complete Package, Riding Skills As Well As Life Skills
Supporting Students As A Complete Package, Riding Skills As Well As Life Skills
About Claire
– Claire is a dressage, showjumping, eventing and show horse specialist coach, trainer and competitor. She also breeds ponies. Claire looks at riders as a complete package to help them not only with riding skills but life skills.
To Listen to Claire Walker on iTunes – Click Here
Or Listen below
Claire’s Favourite Inspirational Quote
– “If you keep riding the same way, you will get the same results” Colleen Brooke
Who Has Inspired Claire
– Claire’s Parents
– Judy Peel (Interview Numbers 026, 184)
– Bernadette Gibson
– Geoff Richards
– Ben Netterfield (Interview Numbers 005, 142, 231)
– Colleen Brooke
Recommended Books
– Take your own book of notes
About This Episode
– Claire discusses her love of being a social person, how she is doing something which she loves and teaching resilience to riders.
Time Stamps
01:13 – “If you keep riding the same way, you will get the same results”
02:57 – At the age 2 or 3 placed in the back seat and taken to the next horse show
04:30 – Coming from a farming family to going to lessons through local pony club
05:34 – Qualifications can give you credibility, having mentors
06:58 – Incorporating life skills into riding
08:17 – Beyond loving horses, love learning, interested, resilience
09:30 – Horses, love competitions, chatting and mixing with people
10:33 – How Judy Peel, Ben Netterfield and others have inspired Claire
12:22 – ‘Traffic Jam’ and other difficult horses
14:03 – Helping difficult horses
15:30 – Still doing something that Claire loves
16:55 – Continuing to believe in yourself
18:51 – Life skills – outside influences, other riders affecting your riding, teaching resilience
22:25 – Claire’s own notes – taking notes from other books
24:16 – Riding more after health issues
26:02 – Stay humble, be a team player, the horse is a key player
28:20 – Contact: see details below
Claire’s Contact Details
Phone: 0407 297 205 or +61 407 297 205
Email:
Facebook: Claire Walker
Wentworth Equestrian
Music
BenSound.com
When Claire is a return guest on Horse Chats, what question would you like to ask her?
(Please leave comment below)