Chunking Down Achievable Goals For Nervous Riders To Gain Confidence and Move Forward
Chunking Down Achievable Goals For Nervous Riders To Gain Confidence and Move Forward
About Maxine
– Maxine is a teacher, dressage judge, coach, trainer and competitor. She helps nervous riders improve their ride in dressage, jumping and trail riding.
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Maxine’s Favourite Inspirational Quote
– Don’t let fears get in the way of your dreams. All your dreams can come true, if you have the courage to pursue them.
Who Has Inspired Maxine
– Teena Bridge
– Mark Tiddle
– Para Riders
Recommended Books
– ‘Bridging the Gap from Wild to Mild’ by Teena Bridge
– ‘Centred Riding’ by Sally Swift
About This Episode
– Maxine discusses why it is important to break your goals down into achievable steps.
Time Stamps
01:09 – Don’t let fears get in the way of your dreams. All your dreams can come true, if you have the courage to pursue them.
02:30 – How Maxine always wanted to do horse stuff and having a holiday in the country
03:18 – Buying Peppi and the freedom of riding everywhere
04:30 – Starting dressage riding and teaching a little jumping
06:03 – Started coaching and giving to the community
08:05 – Patience, persistence, practice, now a viable career, lots of opportunity and technology
09:10 – The absolute passion of being with horses that are unbelievably giving
09:58 – How Teena Bridge taught Maxine to keep it simple
11:26 – Mark Tiddle, Para riders and others have inspired Maxine
13:02 – Lesson learnt from Teena – breaking it down into simple steps, get your horse going forward and most of your problems would disappear
14:28 – Welsh pony who was trainable, Maxine’s first horse that she saved every penny to buy and riding in the Royal Show
17:08 – First Grand Prix Dressage Test, Loan Horse at Sydney CDI who came in second to Rozzie Ryan
20:06 – The Welsh pony didn’t have the best movement for dressage
21:56 – Exercise for nervous riders – by breaking the goal down into smaller steps
24:33 – Bridging the Gap from Wild to Mild & Centred Riding books
26:46 – Big goals are actually achievable if you just take the first step
28:00 – Contact: see details below
Maxine’s Contact Details
Phone: 0412 739 903 or +61 412 739 903
02 4362 1064 or +61 2 4362 1064
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Facebook: Maxine Cummings
Music
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