The AML Six Week Rider Balance Challenge is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow course designed to help you improve your rider position, no matter your current skill level.

What you will learn -

• Foundational exercises proven universally to develop a horse rider’s balance and to ride with an independent seat.

• Specific training patterns and exercises, strategically designed to cause your body to develop the timing of your aids, co-ordination, and muscle memory.

• Stretches for you as a rider to perform before and after your ride to iron out any physical tightness preventing your body from producing the position you desire.

• A training schedule that, not only causes and allows your position to improve but causes your horse’s balance, mobility and strength to improve too.

What you get -

Daily lesson plans in both written and audio format. This allows you to read through your daily training schedule before streaming the audio to your air pods to guide you through each ride. Valued at $3000…

Fully comprehensive signature poles programs with diagrams, set-up instructions and lesson plans within each download. Valued at $25 a program…

Access to the private FB group where you can network with like-minded riders, post progress reports or videos and ask questions with direct access and mentoring from your coach, Amanda Lewer.

Eligible to go into the draw for the grand prize drawn at the end of the challenge! The prize is a choice of five private one-hour lessons or a one- week tailored training program to help continue your training journey. Either option is valued at $500.

You might expect to pay over $3000 for this amount of training, except I feel it’s foundational training everyone should have access to! So I’m almost giving it away for $97.. SIX WEEKS of daily lessons, written programs, diagrams and audio lessons for $97 AUD!

Who does this challenge suit?

Horse riders who struggle to set out a training schedule… who are unsure what they need to train daily to progress in the direction they want to go.

If you’re a rider who likes to have day by day guidance but can’t afford daily lessons or get to one on one lessons regularly? If you can’t get your horse on the float or don’t have a float to get out to lessons and really need some help to improve your balance and position?

If you’re a rider who lacks confidence, feels like they’re not safe or insecure?

OR - If you’re a rider who simply wants to return to some solid foundation training to knuckle down and focus on the basics so you’re higher level training can be better?

Why is being a balanced rider so important?

Being balanced not only gives horse riders confidence and the ability to refine the timing of their aids, it is the number one thing that affects how our horses can train under saddle. If you are not balanced, its extremely difficult for your horse to be balanced. If your horse isn’t balanced, you are asking them to perform in ways that can cause them to lose confidence, trip, or become sore. If you ask any horse physio or vet, they will tell you that 90% of horses are crooked in their musculoskeletal development, as well as how they travel. MOST of the time this is caused by unbalanced riders making their horse overdevelop or compensate physically to carry their unbalanced rider. Yes, horse’s feet, equipment and the surfaces they are training on all affect their ability to balance and be straight… BUT.. none of those things will affect how your horse develops more than how you as a rider balance. Think of how much money you would save on vet, physio and chiro appointments if you as a rider were balanced and allowing your horse to be the best version of themselves?

Have you seen those horse riders who stick to a flighty horse, a buck, rear, spin or spook and wonder how on earth they managed to stay on? Well the one thing that those riders have in spades is balance. Secondly, they have a high level of intuitive feel, almost sensing what the horse is going to do before they do it. It’s not a thought, it’s an energy. How does a rider develop that level of feel? By improving their balance! If you want to work your way towards that type of skill then the best place to start is by improving your balance.

When your seat, body and legs sit evenly in a balanced position, the rest of you can become more elastic, following the horse’s movement more softly. If you are a rider who struggles to keep your hands still, it will have a lot to do with your body being unbalanced and causing a rigidness, which can make your hands bounce, head bob or feet flap!

In summary, being a balanced rider is so important as it affects every single aspect of your riding and training. If you are not balanced, it can be like trying to do athletics with a bag of weights hanging off one side of you.

Mel is the perfect example of how her balance affected her horse’s way of travelling. In the first picture to the right you can see her horse Doc, is strung out and on the forehand. As Mel started to sit up and over Doc’s balance point, his whole outline started to change. He came up in front and developed a more even muscle make up. In the final photo at the bottom of the graphic, you can see how Doc was now able to work in a preliminary level frame, is even in his footfall and clearly more balanced in himself.

Mel is one of hundreds of horse riders I have helped through the program providing in the AML Six Week Challenge. Below are more testimonials from riders not shy about sharing their stories!