The APEX highly-individualized with-horse graduated series:
APEX 101 -- evaluations of your horse, your program, your riding, plus on-trail practice
==> Ann Stuart DVM on selection and maintenance of your endurance horse
==> John Crandell on building and maintaining fitness
==> Jeff Pauley on hoof balance and shoeing
==> Stagg Newman on trail monitoring and assessment of fitness
==> Lisa Maxwell on how you and your horse move together, with suggestions for balance, and ‘things to work on’ to make endurance easier on both you and your horse.
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Private treaty available for X-Rays, blood work, re-shoeing.
APEX 102 -- further evaluations of your horse, your program, your riding, plus on-trail practice
==> Kerry Ridgway DVM on postural, neuromuscular, myofascial and chiropractic evaluation
==> Ann Stuart DVM on conformation and recognizing lameness
==> John Crandell on effective goal planning: year and career
==> Stagg Newman on trail rating and assessing sped
==> Lisa Maxwell on use of lateral work for balance, and more ‘things to work on.'
Private treaty available for acupuncture, chiropractic, saddle fit evaluation, X-rays, bloodwork. APEX 103 -- focus on the rider
==> Anne Riddle Lundblad, psychologist and ultra-runner, on meeting mental challenges encountered over long distances
==> Will Harlan, 100-mile runner and Blue Ridge Outdoors editor, on human physical capabilities and nutrition, lessons from ultra-runners
==> Guest Clinician on yoga to strengthen the core
==> Lisa Maxwell on rider body awareness and its impact on your riding
==> Stagg Newman on goals, trail pacing and normalizing
Also: two-clinics-one-weekend: see an overall schedule here; see an individual's schedule here.
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APEX classroom-with-demonstration horses clinics:
Hoof care of the performance horse. Full-day course and demos.
Gene Ovnicek covers hooves, trimming, shoeings, with demo shoeings (both therapeutic and normal). The critical factors in balancing the hoof are stressed to ensure that the breakover is in the optimum place.
Saddle-fitting: theory and practice. Two-day course with demos and active saddle fitting.
Kerry Ridgway, DVM presents with slides, examples of trees, pads, and saddles, measuring devices, templates, demonstrations, and a variety of horses with saddle fitting and issues. Because most of us cannot run out and buy a new saddle if it no longer fits, Dr. Ridgway addresses this common problem by offering ideal, existing, and temporary solutions.
Mike Scott, Certified Master Saddle Fitter, by appointment, fits and fixes your saddle. Mike is also a equine massage therapist. Participants can bring with them saddles for repair and / or unfitted re-flocking; or bring their horses for saddle fit evaluation, and then have work done on their saddles to improve the fit.
Endurance evaluation (limited version of APEX 101) (Vermont)
John Crandell III hosts a round table discussions and talks about conditioning.
Jim Masterson provides an overview and demo of his massage method.
Kerry Ridgway, DVM overviews how the alternative therapy modalities work, and tie together with your ‘normal’ regimen; and provides a demo of saddle fitting.
Doug Lietzke overviews various enormously helpful techniques to aid your ability to perform at a higher level, which, in turn, helps your horse’s performance. He works with smaller groups to help participants really absorb the techniques.
Stagg Newman guides goal-setting, ride preparation, and riding the ride. He works with smaller groups to help participants with their own goals and preparation.
Ann Stuart, DVM overviews equine conformation and way of going, then helps you figure how to optimize your reality (after all, no one and no horse is perfect!).
Jeff Pauley covers shoeing, plus a vision of how the endurance horse needs to be handled differently, and differently on different courses.
Private treaty work available with Jim Masterson, Kerry Ridgway, Jeff Pauley, John Crandell
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APEX Classroom clinics:
General -- 1 1/2 day course:
==> Ann Stuart DVM on recognizing lameness
==> Todd Holbrook DVM on electrolytes
==> Ken Marcella DVM on diagnostic modalities
==> Dinah Rojek on thermoregulation
==> John Crandell on managing multiple horses – year’s campaign plan
==> Stagg Newman on strategies for endurance rides
Muscles -- Half-day course:
==> Ann Stuart DVM on basic muscle anatomy and physiology
==> Brett Tennent-Brown DVM on paraphysiology of muscle myopathies
==> Ken Marcella DVM on diagnostics of myopathies / metabolics
==> Todd Holbrook DVM on prevention and treatment of muscle myopathies
==> Dinah Rojek on muscle conditioning
Excellence in Endurance 1 -- 1 1/2 day course:
Stagg Newman, Christoph Schork, and Ann Stuart DVM present:
-- High-level goals & evaluating horse & rider team
-- Training & conditioning
-- Break-out sessions
-- Competing – Pace, Practice, Pulse, Patience
Excellence in Endurance 2 -- 1 1/2 day course:
John Crandell III and Art King on characteristics of the endurance horse, followed by a focus on conditioning programs. :
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Ideal characteristics of the endurance horse, covering the ideal; most common faults; and your own evaluation
-- Basic principles of training, conditioning, and care of the endurance horse & rider, touching on nutrition and overall health care, shoeing and trimming, saddles, training program with mental and physical training, conditioning, and management.
-- Development of a conditioning and competition plan for your horse for your specific goal (i.e., WEC, first 100, AERC Decade team) , examples, and exercises
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