Are You a 3-D Rider™?

At MM Training and Consulting, we strive to teach on three different levels (horse sense, equitation, and training). This teaching style is by no accident. Through my experience and observations, many riders are not well rounded in their horsemanship skills. For example some are very pretty riders but lack training skills and horse sense. Others are great trainers but lack proper equitation abilities. These observations are not meant to be condescending or come from the intent to hurt but are made with the intent to learn. And what I have learned is that it takes all three dimensions to be the best horseman we can be.

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MM Training Featured in Horse & Rider Magazine

MM Training and Consulting was recently featured in the February 2013 edition of Horse & Rider. The article is titled “How to Host a Horse Camp”, and Marcia was interviewed about how our camps are structured, what we teach during camp, and the experiences that campers can expect to have. We encourage you to contact us about creating your own customized camp for your family, work team, friends, or sports team. Options for camp focuses can include both horsemanship and relationship skills. Horsemanship skills may include ground training, equitation, training in the saddle, showing, gaming, English, trail, showmanship or a combination. Options for a relationship skills focus can include communication, connection, teamwork, building confidence, overcoming fear, learning self awareness, leadership, building relationships, and many more topics. Please see the summer horse camp article in Horse & Rider for additional ideas or contact us to discuss your camp. Make this summer a time to remember with a camp made just for you!

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Having High Expectations

I had the pleasure of being “introduced” to Katie Davis through listening to the Dave Ramsey show on the radio. Katie, a 23-year-old American, has been living and serving in Uganda since she was 18 years old. She first went to Uganda as a senior in high school for a week-long mission trip and in 2008 started a ministry there called Amazima (www.amazima.org). Today Amazima feeds, clothes, and educates thousands of Uganda orphans on a daily basis. In addition, Katie has become a foster mother to 13 young orphan girls. Katie is an amazing young woman, full of the Holy Spirit and dedicated to showing love to all those around her. Her passion, work ethic and persistence are a powerful example to all of us. But I believe the most important lesson to learn from Katie is the power of high expectations.

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Hello Barn Buddies!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! I know that my family did. Now with the hustle and bustle behind us, we “horse crazy” folks get to think ahead to spring! I love this time of the year! I love planning for the New Year, reflecting back on the previous year and that is exactly what the team at MM Training has been doing. Last year was a year of many new beginnings for our barn. We launched two new programs: Jessi Club and Barn Rats.

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Announcing Our Newly Designed Website!

MM Training and Consulting is very excited to announce the launch of our newly designed website located at the same address: www.mm-horsetraining.com. Our new website features a user-friendly design, pictures, videos and regularly updated articles and other content of interest. We focus on providing our clients with information on relationships and horsemanship that will be of use in your every day lives.

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