2025 FLORIDA CLINICS BY AMY – A POTENTIAL GAME CHANGER
‘Riding to Enhance the Energy -
(necessary for the top Performance of Sport Horses)’
Clinics with Amy Hunter in Florida, January thru March of 2025
WHATS DIFFERENT HERE AND WORTHY OF STUDY AND PURSUIT?
The Proof, the Vision, and Changing the Game for the Benefit of the Horse
The Proof
What is it that I’m seeing that has allowed me to produce horse after horse and assist rider after rider to becoming their best … at times quickly and dramatically improving on the spot at the shows? Spanning a forty year professional career, with minimal resources and very little comparable competitive time, I’ve brought out the best and consistently proven myself with almost every horse I’ve trained. All things considered, 99.99% of them all eventually go exactly the same way … extremely and surprisingly well.
Even my final breeding product, a 15 year old Cradilo mare who had never shown and was barely ridden before this year (being a particularly sensitive, hot, explosive type I unfortunately had minimal time for most of her life) showed up to Split Rock in Lexington this fall and won a low jumper class her 4th time in the ring. Granted, we aren’t exactly smoothly winning Grand Prixs … but given the circumstances, the consistent proof is still in the pudding.
Multiple top riders have read my original words (infused with a slightly different perspective from standard operating procedure), and have paid serious attention. Changing bits, riding styles and developmental techniques as a result … and enjoying the benefits more than once at the FEI level, right up to an International World Cup bronze medal in 2022, which I was the influential play by play coach (hidden in the shadows) behind.
To the point that some of the top long term power players in the US Hunter/Jumper world, willing to use less than sportsmanship like techniques when it comes to determining who gets to win acknowledged and paid influence over the sport's evolution (or even be there to have the opportunity), have put their careers on the line and done everything in their power to put almost unbearable pressure on me, alienating and removing me from the industry.
They’ve cleverly separated me from almost all of my best up and coming self bred and produced horses; the final undeniable, indisputable proof of who we are and the very unusual path we have been on; horses of rare blood I have been working and sacrificing to collect and develop my entire life.
You don’t go to the extremes these guys have gone to over decades, dozens and dozens of times, if you are not threatened by real competition. And any competitor (especially when its a David up against multiple Goliaths) that makes you consistently sweat at this level, is always good and onto something. Particularly when it involves something with just a little twist … that you can’t quite put your finger on … but that with barely half a foothold has received plenty of quiet attention and respect among the elite, and in repeated exceptional diverse manners produced noticeable results.
The Vision
To be honest, until a few weeks ago, even I didn’t fully understand exactly what it was I was seeing and searching for, teaching and doing; in terms of producing those ever illusive happy smooth rides and consistent clean, and when necessary fast rounds. I simply knew I had been for decades skirting around something that was not generally a part of mainstream professional equestrian thinking.
Thanks to a career of being at the shows followed often by long winters (or even a few years) of being away, I’ve learned temporarily stepping back from competitive sport is not necessarily a bad thing. It can give you a fresh perspective and take on things living at the shows for years on end simply does not allow for.
Suddenly, pieces of the puzzle regarding a ‘sport of kings’ that is so complicated and challenging it keeps those with seemingly unending resources (and the top intellects often behind them) fully engaged for generations, were falling into place. The complete answers regarding this mysterious kaleidoscope I’ve been observing for so many decades finally came together this fall in Lexington. As I spent the weeks watching top professional and FEI level riders jump around at Split Rock and the Kentucky National, gradually the light bulb of awareness dancing around in my head regarding the subject, came fully on.
I wasn’t just ‘being the engineer’ and looking for a mechanical solution that presented itself in the physical style of the rider and horse’s body. Like measuring the amperage in a current or the tone and brightness of a light bulb, I was seeing and looking for a specific type of energy that was producing and interacting with (and quietly behind) the mechanics.
WOA … BOOM … EUREKA! Suddenly everything fell into place and it all made sense. And I knew … almost instantly … this is not a small revelation. This is not a piece. This is the entire puzzle I’ve been questioning and studying forever gelling together. What I now know and understand ... that I’ve never heard any other single trainer teach or even begin to verbalize … is a game changer.
Changing the Game for the Benefit of the Horse
Who would be interested in studying and engaging in a method of understanding and a style of riding that increases the horse’s energy level and actually enhances, frees and feeds his body’s ability to physically perform? Right now some very commonly used techniques, I have been noticing publicly more and more for some time now, are actually depleting his energy and making it more difficult for him to consistently and ongoingly perform and jump well.
Sorry guys … I’m not going to give a potential key to the kingdom (that it took a lifetime of sacrifice to find) away here. However suffice it to say when you begin to see the horse as the energetic being it ultimately is (interacting with the physical), as a contained yet flowing light bulb that’s also part of a wave, gaining or losing momentum as it moves; you begin to realize what we do from the back of the horse can either increase and enhance that energy and support, or break it down.
Where (and how and when) we put the horse’s body and our position, can close the energetic circuit and make it stronger, or we can unknowingly open it, tear it apart and gradually over time break it down.
One technique leads to a horse becoming physically stronger and more athletically capable, both quickly and over time. This is in spite of the miles its exposed to, particularly if those miles are drawing in and increasing energy.
The other common technique can lead to the horse peaking in its career and then surprisingly quickly fading out (particularly if the career is demanding), often just as they’ve finally learned and become comfortable in their craft.
As with all things in enlightened horsemanship, you have to truly feel and understand the method (that which works and the why, and that which does not work and the why), before you can consistently incorporate it into training and riding. With that point in mind, I’m making myself available for the following …
‘Riding to Enhance the Energy -(necessary for the top Performance of Sport Horses)’
Clinics with Amy Hunter in Florida, January thru March of 2025
[Preface: while this understanding and technique can be taught to and will help any style and level of horsemanship and riding, it will likely be the most beneficial, given who it's coming from, in the pursuit of performance jumping (show jumping, hunters and three day). To incorporate it successfully, the ability to be versatile in the horse and rider’s positioning is helpful. So while it can be taught to beginners (and could be very helpful to some greener horses that are struggling), the solid foundation of a quiet, controlled, balanced and relaxed rider’s position and a horse than can maintain suppleness and evenness in rhythm (particularly around a course of fences) may receive the most obvious benefits.]
I will be available via private coaching and group clinics to teach this knowledge and technique in Florida beginning in January, through March of 2025. If you are located in another area (finding yourself feeling quite inspired and very interested), and rather not want to wait until this summer or later for exposure to the information from the source, feel free to contact me. Depending on how things are looking for the upcoming months (and how quickly things come together) we may be able to work something out sooner.
The cost will be $500 per private session per rider, multiple horses allowed, for up to a half day (4 hours) of teaching. For group clinics, for one full 8 hour day there will be a 10% discount for each additional rider up to 6, and an additional 10% off for 10 plus riders. Once the price dependent on the number of riders is established, there will be an additional 10% off of this price for 2 days of teaching and 20% off for 3 days or more of teaching. While I’m happy to teach privately I want to reward with affordability, the ease and productivity of multiple students and days. A price sheet is below in pdf format.
For now clients are to provide the facility … I will provide insurance (and proof thereof). A sign up form will be available here on this website in the upcoming days. 50% down is required to hold a date-spot … the remaining 50% is required upon the arrival at the facility prior to teaching. For any questions feel free to text or call me at (608) 632-6053.
