A fantastic weekend with coaching and technique!

This weekend it finally happened after several years of covid - a long-awaited training weekend together with Jan, this time without Flash. And of course there is a difference between just talking on the phone and over the internet versus meeting in person! We realized, we had missed it.

As usual, the weather showed itself from its very best side, we are lucky with the weather Gods in Övre Gärdsjö, and there was a lot of time to coach, train, for horses and archery and talking until the early mornings! Mats also practices shooting with a back quiver and got some time together with Barco! We have tried many different types of quivers since we started instructing in horseback archery in 2012 and have come to the conclusion that sword quivers and back quivers are the fastest. So far we've only used sword quivers, apart from holding the arrows in the hands, so now we're also testing and training with the back quivers. "This went well!" was Mat's spontaneous comment, who thought it felt very natural. We also tested a travel saddle that Jan built, where the idea is that it should fit all horses and all saddles so that if you, for example, borrow a horse, the horse can continue to have the saddle that he or she is used to. It fit both Barco's and Zäta's saddle!

A great fun and rewarding weekend that ended with us being VIP guests at Rhapsody in Rock at Dalhalla, where Ylwa's nephew Adam played. For three hours we got to enjoy fantastic music and good company. Thank you all, it is with ease that we enter this Monday's to-do-list!

Barco and Zäta were Jan's teammates this weekend! It's all about balance. Physical balance and mental balance. And to disturb the horse as little as possible.

A happy bunch of night owls after the end of Rhapsody in Rock at Dalhalla 2022!

Visit from Germany after two years of restrictions!

Finally after two years of covid-restrictions, quarantines and difficulties to travel, Dörte and Ludger from Germany visited us again and booked a day's training with Barco and Zäta. Like for so many other during these years, it has not been easy keeping up the training, so we started with some ground training.

After lunch they got to meet their old team mates Barco and Zäta again! If you return to us for training, we try to book the horse you have been ridden before for the best possible experience. Dörte and Ludger was here for the third time!

Barcos Fancy Cat, one of Sweden's most accomplished horses in horseback archery and if he should introduce himself he'd say: "I am the one with all the medallions in the stable".

Xero Dreams' Eye Catcher is the horse, who won Midsummer night's dream in 2016 together with Anna Sokólska from Poland. He has also participated in Grand Prix with a fifth place.

DID YOU KNOW?

• That we are the Swedish Ambassadors in the World Bitless Association? You don't need to be able to ride bitless when you come and visit us, but it is a great opportunity to get more knowledge about it

• That we are the only Equetrian centre in Sweden who educate in horseback archery working full time? About 150-200 people visit us each year and at our place you can come and train on well-educated horses if you don't have your own horse

• We are both educated trainers within the Swedish Equestrian Federation and the Swedish Archery Association and coach a lot of people in other disciplines as well

• We work with rewarded-based training and are happy to share our thoughts of how you easy can implement such training in your everyday horselife.

Are you also interested to come and train with us? Please plan your stay here in good time, we are in general fully booked in the beginning of April!

Really fun times with The Pony Express on visit!

Two absolutely fantastic weeks are coming to an end, we have, among other things, had a visit from our friends Anton and Sara at the Pony express who competed in sports driving in Rättvik and took the opportunity to have their camp at our place!

Flying sledges and spaceships and four fantastically cute Shetland ponies, for those of you who have been to the Sweden International Horse Show, you will most likely recognize the Pony Express! But they are so much more than Show, they are also fantastically good at sports driving, inaugurations and weddings, well really it is probably only the imagination that sets limits, on what they can perform. So you probably understand that playing was big on our common agenda!

Between two camps we took a day off and were watching when they competed in precision driving, and it was very educational and fun! It was no less fun that Anton and the boys took the grand slam and won all the classes and the total. Of course we also took the time to try each other's sports horseback archery and sports driving and to also combine these, or as Anton said "you never know what happens when Lundström is nearby!"

So incredibly fun to have you here and to experience this, thank you Rigo, Eragon, Monsun, Lordi, Anton and Sara for wonderful days! See you again in September.

Keep an eye on their Youtube channel to see the episode about horseback archery and Sports Driving!

When Anton and Mats meet, it strikes sparks so it smokes. Why not try combining the different sports Sports Driving and Horseback Archery? Four ponies in full gallop without holding the reins and shooting with a horsebow at the same time!

"You have a hunt track as well, don't you?" Anton aid, galloping out with the licorice trolls on the hunt track. It went fast!

We tried Sports Driving with fantastic Rigo, Eragon, the stallion Monsun and Lordi!

Lovely days!