Syllabus
Course modules
Work through the modules in order. Each is built from short learning screens, interactive cards, knowledge checks and scenarios. Your place is saved automatically, so you can leave and return to exactly where you stopped.
Module 1 · 30 min · 6 screens
The Role of the Coach
What coaching actually is, the responsibilities you have for the rider and horse and where the limits of your competence lie.
- — Explain what coaching is and how it differs from instructing
- — Describe your responsibilities to the rider, the horse and the wider environment
- — Recognise the limits of your own competence and know when to seek assistance
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Module 2 · 40 min · 7 screens
Safety, Risk and the Coaching Environment
Hazard versus risk, dynamic risk assessment, safe positioning, and knowing when to change or stop an exercise.
- — Distinguish a hazard from a risk and carry out a dynamic risk assessment
- — Check the environment, horse, rider and equipment before and during a session
- — Position yourself safely and know when to change or stop an exercise
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Module 3 · 55 min · 6 screens
Assessing the Rider
The core coaching skill: reading position, balance, stability and effectiveness — and finding the cause rather than the symptom.
- — Assess a rider using the sequence position → balance → stability → effectiveness
- — Observe alignment, seat, leg, upper body, hands, tension, symmetry and coordination systematically
- — Identify the likely root cause of a fault rather than correcting the visible symptom
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Module 4 · 40 min · 6 screens
Assessing the Horse and Rider Combination
Coaching two athletes at once: reading the horse, reading the horse and rider combination, and identifying the underlying cause of any issues.
- — Assess the horse's experience, confidence, fitness, training, behaviour, rhythm, balance and responsiveness
- — Judge whether a horse and rider are a suitable combination for the session you planned
- — Decide whether an issue is rider-created, horse-created or created by the combination
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Module 5 · 45 min · 6 screens
How to Coach
The methods themselves: explanation, demonstration, observation, questioning, guided discovery, feedback, practice and reflection.
- — Select an appropriate coaching method for the rider and the task
- — Apply the Tell → Show → Do → Review cycle
- — Use questioning and guided discovery to build riders who can self-correct
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Module 6 · 45 min · 5 screens
Planning a Lesson
The Assess → Goal → Plan → Coach → Adapt → Review cycle, and an interactive lesson-plan builder you can save.
- — Apply the Assess → Goal → Plan → Coach → Adapt → Review planning cycle
- — Write a single clear session objective with a measurable review method
- — Build and save a complete lesson plan including easier and harder alternatives
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Module 7 · 45 min · 2 screens
Adapting Your Coaching
The plan is a guide, not a script. Branching scenarios covering nerves, tension, fatigue, confusion and the unexpected.
- — Recognise the signals that a session needs to change
- — Choose proportionate adaptations for rider and horse issues
- — Change the objective when it is no longer appropriate, without wasting the session
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Module 8 · 35 min · 4 screens
Common New Coach Mistakes
Sixteen mistakes almost every new coach makes, why each one matters, and the better approach.
- — Recognise the most common new-coach errors in your own delivery
- — Explain why each one limits learning, safety or welfare
- — Replace each with a specific better approach
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Module 9 · 30 min · 3 screens
Reviewing Your Coaching
Reflective practice: what happened, why, what you would change, and what happens next — plus a reflection form you can save.
- — Apply a structured reflection cycle after every session
- — Evaluate your own communication, adaptation and safety management honestly
- — Turn reflection into a specific action for the next session
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Module 10 · 40 min · 5 screens
Putting It All Together
A full horse-and-rider case study: risk, assessment, priority, objective, exercise, communication, adaptation and review.
- — Work through a complete coaching decision sequence from risk assessment to next steps
- — Justify a coaching priority and objective from your own assessment
- — Adapt mid-session and review against the objective you set
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