he is fantastic - both as an instructor and rider.
very good at building confidence in the horse - uses a lot of gridwork in the early stages and is very good at getting distances perfect.
he took me from jumping 2'3 classes on my first pony, to winning at 3'3 - he then helped a lot with my big grey too. He does like to crank the fences up a bit sometimes though
Tom's excellent and is fantastic at understanding the rider and the horse. He's also extremely good with teenage girls when they are stressy abou things not going right. My teenage daughter has had lesson with Tom for the last 2 years and has come on greatly and he's the only instructor I like having lessons with as he doesn't laugh at my cr*p riding. He's a thoroughly nice chap and I can't recommend him enough.