New year, new ideas! While I am terrible at social media and writing, this year I will challenge myself to post every week, or at least try to. So I am starting Tip Tuesdays, where (almost) every week you will get tips on training, tack, grooming, DIY’s etc.

This will combine a lot of passion projects that have been laying still for years while I focused on HN Horsewear, without taking anything away from it.

So, here’s a little backstory:

As some people may know, I am not just a tackmaker but I also am/was a trainer and instructor. I stopped taking on new clients years ago but noticed there was a growing demand for groundwork instructors near me and slowly started taking on new students almost 2 years ago. But then my body failed me, again, in the beginning of last year by adding to my ever-growing collections of hernia’s.
Now that my back is feeling a bit better, I was thinking about accepting a few more students again and was working on getting my website for training and lesson services up to date. But demand is pretty big and I can’t travel a lot. So I thought about putting more training tips and information on that website to help people that are too far away from me.

And that got me thinking. Why not just do it in English and add that to HN Horsewear instead? My visions and tack go hand in hand with my vision on horsemanship, pretty much all products I sell are the results of problems I encountered with training horses. Like fit issues, quality of materials or products that simply didn’t exist yet.
Why only help people in my own country when I can help my customers all over the world? Add a little more backstory to some of my products, instructions on how to use them properly in your own training.

And why stop there? The biggest problem I encounter with lessons and training is people skipping the basics. I can write about the most common problems I see and (hopefully) help people and their horses understand each other better. There are lots of exercises you can do to advance without a trainer present. Then take it a little further with more complex issues and training, examples from horses that I have trained in the past, or that I am working with currently.

I can even pick up my very old, abandoned project of DIY tutorials to make your own horsestuff.

As you can see, I can infodump for days on various horse related topics if people let me. And no one is stopping me from doing it besides myself. So this is the year I will do it! Or at least try to.

So for the first tip: follow @hnhorsewear on instagram and/or facebook and don't miss the next Tip Tuesday!