Tina Ure Xc clinics any experience

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Hello just wondered if anyone had been to a XC clinic with Tina Ure? I am struggling to find anyone to go XC schooling with at the weekend due to work and I am thinking about booking a Xc clinic with Tina through BE at little downham. If anyone could let me know there experiences I would be grateful.

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I use her for xc and sj lessons, havent been to any of her BE clinics but my lesson are extremely good, she plays to ur horses strengths and weakness and taylors to what u need, i would highly recommend her :) (sorry for spelling/grammar issues... On the phone!!)
 
We went to a BE clinic with her last year. Very good at explaining exactly what the coursebuilder is trying to acheive, and how best to get clear rounds by accurate riding. Well worth the money IMO.
 
I'll step out of line and say that I didn't like her.....she took an instant dislike to my daughter's horse (ex 2* eventer, bold but safe, bought with the express intention of teaching my daughter about larger tracks) without giving a reason and then gave her no advice during the clinic, just criticised everything he did, even rather confusingly the fact that he didn't look at a ditch, just took it in his stride. She preferred another greener horse that stopped and lost its rider at the same ditch saying that she preferred it because it looked where it was going.....? Asked how he was bred and then just said - 'ah - that explains it then' (by William Curtis - didn't explain anything to me at all.....?). At a combination where he was admittedly a little forward going and took out a stride the first time round she just turned to the group and said 'see?' - nothing more, no help, no suggestion of how my daughter could ride it differently. They came round again and got it spot on right and Tina just turned her back and walked off with the rest of the group. The other spectators/mums from the group were equally dumbfounded by her treatment of us.

I can't believe thinking back that I didn't question her more at the time, but I was so taken aback by her views that were so far removed from any other view that we had been given of the horse/rider combination before or after that I was a bit like a goldfish all the way through the clinic. I kept thinking - she must be right - she's seen something we haven't (and that other BE coaches hadn't either) - what on earth are we going to do - we must be making complete fools of ourselves - we know nothing - we should just give up and hang our heads in shame - what idiots we've been to even think we might be able to be sucessful or even safe - what a terrible, ignorant mother I am.......etc, etc.

I felt we had to seek her out at the end after we had boxed up and ask her for specific advice as to how she thought we should proceed as she gave me the distinct impression that we should sell our useless beast. My daughter (just turned 16 at the time) didn't want to - she just wanted to leave, dig a hole in the ground, curl up and die, she had been made to feel so worthless. When I said that selling wasn't an option and asked what she suggested she rather sneeringly said that she might be able to help if we booked a series of private sessions with her.

Knocked our confidence completely and we never really got it back if I'm honest. Other BE coaches encouraged us to aim for JRNs that season - we were told by a number of people to stop messing around at PN level and they were amazed when we were reticent about it - but we never really got our eventing mojo back and lost quite a lot of enthusiasm for the whole thing. The horse unfortunately developed an SI injury later that season and we spent a year rehabbing him before selling him as a hack. We didn't replace him and my daughter no longer has a horse of her own - she's head down into A levels and vet school applications and we decided it was a reasonable time to stop. She has a Sunday/holiday job exercising ex-racers and pointers and gets given the babies to school as she is such a sympathetic and secure rider - I only mention this to point out that she's actually quite a good little jockey (she herself is only just starting to believe this since she's been given too many offers of young rides than she can cope with) and didn't deserve to be treated the way she was.

I wouldn't normally have bothered to comment on this thread and I feel I've ranted a bit, but I feel very strongly about her as our experience was sooo bad. Really sorry.....maybe it was a one off as I know she was in the middle of a very messy divorce at the time, but I just can't find it in me to recommend her. She made us utterly miserable :(
 
Sorry to hear this Bedlam - doesn't sound at all like the Tina I know. She did have a very rough time but that's no excuse for what happened to your daughter so it's good to hear she's bouncing back.
 
I had a few lessons yonks ago with Tina. She was direct, to say the least. My horse was more talented than me! But everything she said made sense and much as I would have loved her to say I was brilliant, she did not. Each lesson I had became more nerve wracking for me as I wanted her to say I was ace (never did), but every one I improved. I am an older rider, coming back to XC.
A couple of years passed and my daughter rode the same horse on lessons with her. Apart from LG, they were her best ever XC lessons. Direct, to the point, but with loads to go away with and work on. Sadly we find ourselves on such a tight budget, we have to learn in a differnt manner. :(
My daughter was on the outside of JRN teams, as her horse was a little unpredictable (let's leave it at that) and she wasn't a PC member. But every JRN course walk she did with TU, was excellent and she learned loads.

So, in summary, I would say... she knows her stuff, and she shares it. Take it and swallow it. Learn from it, it's what you pay your money for. If you do as she says, you will improve.
That's my take. :)
 
Rosiefan said:
Sorry to hear this Bedlam - doesn't sound at all like the Tina I know. She did have a very rough time but that's no excuse for what happened to your daughter so it's good to hear she's bouncing back.
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That's what is so odd - everyone else I know thinks she's great (Tina - not my daughter by the way) and has nothing but good things to say about her, so I thought long and hard before posting negatively as I've felt uncomfortable about the whole thing for a long time.

I certainly do not think that my daughter is a great rider - definitely knew at the time that the horse was better than she was - that's why we bought him. Just couldn't understand why she had no advice to offer whatsoever - the combination was completely written off and effectively ignored if not disparaged throughout the whole clinic without explanation.

I really hope you have a great clinic - I think we must be the exception that proves the rule.
 
I haven't been to a clinic OP so no help there whatsoever but if you ever want to school at Tina's on a weekend and fancy company let me know.

I'm probably going to try and get up there for a private lesson or two as my horse is far too green for clinics at the moment!
 
Bedlam said:
I think we must be the exception that proves the rule.
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Just saw this thread, posted a while ago, but it probably still grates after all this time.

I suspect it's a psychological problem the trainer has. Your daughter and her horse would appear to have been better than most in the group. Some trainers can't hack that, and their nature is such that they dismiss the person and their horse and concentrate on those that are more needy of their services. Inwardly they're a bit jealous of the horse, the rider, the parent, their money or a combination of all of it.

Such a shame your daughter has given up riding her own horse, maybe she'll get back into it later in life.

Put bad experiences with people like this down to a bad day, and move on.
 
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