Using Dressage to Compliment Western Training
About Katrin
– Katrin started her training business almost twenty years ago, she has worked with many different breeds of horses, including Quarter Horses, Arabians, Mustangs, Morgans, Thoroughbreds, Warmbloods a
Some of them had serious trust issues with humans. Very few were talented dressage horses in a traditional sense. Yet, they all benefited from dressage-based training. She realized long ago that it doesn’t matter what kind of tack we put on our horses, as long as it allows communication. The basic principles Katrin learned from her Western mentors very closely resemble those of the ones she learned from her early dressage training:
We all want a calm, balanced, light, straight, responsive, and happy horse.
In order to help riders connect with their equine partners, Katrin uses a supportive teaching method. Being horse-crazy since she can remember.
Katrin grew up in Germany and started taking dressage lessons as a child. She rode school horses, and soon also horses no one else wanted to ride.
During the mid-1980’s, Western style riding made its first appearance in Europe. Katrin remembers watching reining horses for the first time — short, stocky Quarter Horses who could slide and spin and do flying lead changes on a totally loose rein. They, and their riders, looked relaxed, like these movements didn’t cost them any effort at all. Katrin knew she wanted to learn how to ride like that.
After graduating high school, she moved to the Southwestern United States, and spent several years as an assistant to successful Western trainers before building her own business and really settling down to focus on the horse/human relationship.
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Katrin’s Favourite Inspirational Quote
– “Learning how to ride is easy, as long as you don’t know much about it. Once you’ve tried to learn for a few years, however, it’s a different story. ”
(Udo Bürger, “The Way to Perfect Horsemanship”)
Who Has Inspired Katrin
– Julie Wilson.
Katrin’s Contact Details
Phone: (505) 429-7968 Las Vegas USA
Email: silvakatz@icloud.com
Website: http://katrinsilvadressage.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katrinsilvadressage
Music
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