Do you ever feel a little confused about what to do and in what order?

If you are looking to improve your horse and riding , and struggle with some issues, you may feel that there are just to much information and many options. understanding them to make the right choice is just too overwhelming...

In the equestrian world there are plenty of trainers, PT,s, saddlers, fitters and physios, ready to offer you advise, training, treatment and products. But how often do they join forces to assess you, your horse and tack together, to sort out where to start first and what you really need?We know almost never ever.

VBR was created as a joint venture between those professions to help you assess and get to the bottom of any issue, preparing you for keeping track of everything using timely self assessment. With the sole focus to help you and your horse to stay fit and keeping control of the fit of your tack so that you only need to engage help, if you want a second opinion and assistance to work out a better solution than the current one.

VBR is the result of the passion and dedication of a growing group of equestrians across the globe. We spent a decade of cross profession learning, teaching and practicing. Everyone sharing their own perspective while learning from the others.

VBR is for all equestrians; hobby riders, professionals, riding schools and education institutions, who all share the need to understand more about the horse's body and behavior, saddle fit and function, and about how the rider's mind and body impacts on the horse's balance. 

About Tack

What is the actual width, shapes and angles or your horse and saddle, does it allow your horse to lift and move? Does your combination of tack offer enough support and stability for both of you? Does the saddle support your body in the right places for you to optimize your position and stability? Does it need service or tweaking? So that you can go on using it safely? Would you like to be able to measure and self assess to feel more secure? 

Your Horse

Strengthening your relationship is all about communication. Would you like to be able to understand your horse's subtle signs and behavior better? Understanding and monitoring sources of certain behavior posture and topline is key to training and owning horses at every level, VBR focus is to teach you to read your horse posture and reactions, to spot compensation patterns before it becomes an issue with laterality, pain or lameness. Once you understand the subtle signs in your horses response to daily activity, you will find that your horse will become more willing to trust you with showing what it needs. Horses are hardwired to hide weakness and pain from us. We need to earn their trust. Once you understand how to listen and what to look for, you will be able to find and sort sources of discomfort, strengthening your relationship and your ability to perform long term. 

What matters to the horse?

Horse only wants to feel perfect balance to move and feel tha they can flee in any direction if needed. The most common stress from rider and saddle to the horse, is instability combined with laterality to one side. It robs the horse of both perfect balance and the ability to escape in one direction. It places pressure on one side of the spine and forces compensation just to move. To avoid placing the horse in this stressful and harmful situation we need to take control over 1 our own lateral balance and stability. This is hard since our brain copes with it without letting us know just how unstable or off we are. 2. Our tacks fit and stability. This entails understanding the shape of top and bottom of the saddle and how materials perform. 3. the horses inbuilt laterality, mobility and function between front and rear, the back, how recoil and front push requires perfect breaking power from the rear and how rider and saddle can offset this perfectly synchronized balance in the horse. 

About Your Test 

Your brain and body are hard wired to maintain balance and to create security to keep your system calm, lack of balance and stability can be caused by saddle horse shapes, injury, stress and pain. It is basically impossible to say what caused that without a testing protocol that allows you to monitor your well-being and response to different situations. When you learn more yea realise that your brain often tricks you to believe you are balanced, when you are not, just simply because it prefers your compensation, that unloads a limb or muscle chain it does not trust or protects you from pain. This causes a lot of communication issues with the horse and leads to most of the issues riders normally experience. So riders need to learn about their own body shape, their limits and weakness before they can choose the most effective Abuse of action. Daily readiness score and warm up routines allows you to monitor your self and to adjust to what you actually need. Rider & Tack stability Depends on shapes , angles that will change. and on Forces. materials and of rider and horses This guide gives you an insight. 

Horse angles matter to saddle fit, and they change. 

Since Horses toplines are dynamic you need knowledge and tools keep track of the topline to know how well your horse is doing and if you need to adjust or take help. Apart from assessing with a protocol and traning your eye, you also need a toolbox of go to exercises that help the horse to recalibrate and to use its body with better balance between front and hindend forces.  

As a rider you need to test you true balance, stability and mobility to realise what your brain may hide from you.