In time for Christmas, we're launching the DHA-app!

Now here it is, the DHA app! Just in time for Christmas, we've released a free BETA version of the DHA app that will be primarily available to our members! Staying in touch with us has never been easier. In the DHA app you will be aware of:

• Contact details

• All links to our social media

• Book some of our services

• Be able to place orders for our products directly in our webshop

• Read the latest news

• Keep an eye on what's happening in the members' forum

All in one place! We hope that you, like us, will find it makes life much easier!

Now we would like the help of you who are members of our website to test the app for us, is there something that you are missing and what would it be if so? Something we should take away? As a thank you for your help, we give you a secret gift.

/Ylwa and Mats!

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!