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Straight Forward Equitation
Maxine Kemp
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Create the training partnership you
and your horse deserve


In Search of Connection - how can you connect with your horse?
Our quest for self-improvement can cause us to miss the perfection of all that we already are.
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Mar 116 min read
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Rediscovering Our Joy for Riding
What if we could take a journey back to those days when all the world was a wonder to behold?
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Aug 12, 20249 min read
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A conversation about Behind The Vertical
What I do know and nobody can take away from me is the joy I experience from the feeling of an undulating free back underneath me.
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Aug 1, 20244 min read
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More Than Just Another Angry Voice.
This offering might be a little different. It’s been floating around in my mind for a while wondering whether it ought to be unleashed....
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Jul 23, 20247 min read
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Should I buy an ex-racehorse? - and some tips in case you do
Having spent many of my younger years in and around the racing industry in the UK, and then a portion of later life involved with the...
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Jul 19, 20249 min read
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Some end of year thoughts...
I’ve been attempting to write this blog for a while now. I feel like there is something important to say but each time I try to extract...
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Dec 20, 20236 min read
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Making Space
Some of you might have noticed I haven’t posted anything in quite a while. It’s been a time of great change and reflection for me in...
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Nov 22, 20239 min read
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Can You Tell If I’m Well?
Those of you who know me will know that this is a subject quite close to my heart. You can tell because of the amount I bang on about it....
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Nov 22, 20237 min read
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What Does You Horse Understand?
I whole heartedly agree with the idea that Dressage is for all horses and is first and foremost therapeutic and rehabilitative, meaning...
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Nov 22, 202314 min read
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Keeping it Honest
For those of us who care about our horses, regard them as our partners and strive to do our very best for them, the modern fashion for...
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Nov 22, 20239 min read
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You are enough
I’ve recently returned from a lovely break in Thailand. I’ve never been before and one of the things I’d heard so much about and was keen...
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Nov 22, 20234 min read
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What is ‘Forwards’?
We all know it’s important for the horse to be thinking and moving forwards. It gets shouted often, referred to on dressage sheets...
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Nov 22, 20234 min read
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Making Changes
This is an updated version of a post I wrote after one of our wonderful clinics with Patrice Edwards.  We so often see such significant...
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Nov 22, 20237 min read
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Developing Your Riding: (Sound Bites of the Seat)
There’s no getting away from the fact that your ‘equitation’, or the way in which you present yourself to the horse in a physical sense,...
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Nov 22, 202311 min read
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Your Horse’s Natural Behaviour in Training
I frequently come across riders who are looking for answers relating to issues with their horse’s behaviour whilst ridden. One of the...
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Nov 22, 20235 min read
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Here at Last
Hello, my name is Maxine Kemp and amongst many other things in life, I am a horse trainer, riding instructor and Life Coach based in the...
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Nov 22, 20232 min read
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