Alan Fazakerley

[little_flea]

Anyone trained with him? What is he like? Thank you!

 

[Navalgem]

A friend of mine did and they thought he was fab - very constructive and good at inspiring confidance.

 

[alesea]

My sister had a lesson with him through Pony Club. She really enjoyed it.
I think he pushed them quite a lot, but and the same time didn't move beyond what they were capable of. He gave her some very good advice about dealing with the very green horse that she was riding at the time.

 

[emsy]

I had a lesson with him and he was really good, esp as we've got eventers and not typical show jumpers!

 

[Baggybreeches]

I trained with him through the BSJA when I was a kid, (a long time ago!) what he taught me then, still stands me in good stead now. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him!

 

[Nats_uk]

I've had a couple of lessons with him through the BSJA - he was really good. Would recommend him

 

[TableDancer]

I think he is superb, have had a lesson with him quite recently, at the Bleekmans in Devon

I would love him to give T some lessons as he's supposed to be fantastic with kids/ponies, but I find him quite difficult to track down - no website and doesn't return texts/calls very reliably

Nice guy, though...

 

[Munchkin]

Excellent! But yes he is hard to track down, as he's based in both Essex and Manchester.

As someone else said, he will push you to where he thinks you're capable. He'll also hop on your horse to get a feel for it so that he knows what he's working with.

He was trained by the master himself - what more do you expect

 

[Baggybreeches]

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He'll also hop on your horse to get a feel for it so that he knows what he's working with.


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Yep, he got on my 13.2hh jumping pony, when I was positive that she was impossible to ride with no stirrups! He agreed and gave me my stirrups back!

But he did make me ride someone else's pony to prove his point!

 

[ann-jen]

I've had a couple of lessons off him and thought he was very good.

 

[horseygin]

Ann-jen, does he still come your way? We are in hexham but nobody much comes this way regularly so we are thinking of travelling down... where do/ did you have lessons with him? Thanks.

 

[sassybebe]

I had BS area training with him and learnt absolutely f all. He was a nice guy though and got on someones horse which proceeded to pee off with him but he did get her going. i think possibly the problem was that my horse was absolutely perfect on that day but because of the group he couldn't push me so he basically said very little to me other than good. Have heard lots of positive about him though and would probably give him a go for an individual session if he was local.

 

[lauracrawly]

He taught me in a group lesson years ago at pont club camp when i had a real sod of a pony who i had nearly given up on and he helped me so much , i would reccomend him all day long

 

[little_flea]

I have trained with him a few times now and think he is absolutely brilliant.

 

[HotToTrot]

I did area 40 training with him at Brook Farm. I thought he was good, he certainly said a lot of things which made sense. I had a slight reservation though in that he got rather defensive when I questioned him. He said "ABC is happening. Do Y" I said "in ABC circumstances, I do X. Why is Y better than X?" He said I didn't need his help if I was going to do X. He never did explain why Y was better than X.....