Jec Aristotle Ballou, author of 101 Dressage Exercises and Equine fitness, to hold equine clinic for the Western Dressage Association(TM) of Colorado
Equine Western Dressage Clinic to be held in Elizabeth, Colorado by Jec Ballou.
- Denver, CO (1888PressRelease) May 03, 2011 - Award-winning journalist, published poet and popular dressage instructor, Jec Ballou will hold an equine clinic on July 15-16 for the Western Dressage Association of Colorado.
The mission of the Western Dressage Association of Colorado is to build an equine community that combines the Western traditions of horse and rider with Classical Dressage. In doing this, it will provide an educational and competitive environment which is accessible to all Colorado riders and horses.
Ballou is a natural fit with the WDACO as she has worked tirelessly as an advocate for the understanding that proper biomechanical movement and athleticism can never happen as a result of short-cuts, force, or hurried training methods.
About Jec Ballou
Jec A. Ballou's distinct love of training and developing horses of all levels is fed by her eclectic background. Raised in a horse training family, she's gone on to become not only a teacher in her own right but also an author, a philosopher, an athlete, and a poet.
In 2005, she wrote and published 101 Dressage Exercises for Horse and Rider, to meet what she saw as a great need within the industry for simple, clear, and practical information for riders to improve their equine athletes. The book's overwhelming success has proven this to be true. It remains one of the top sellers of all equine instruction books and has been translated into three foreign languages.
She followed the success of this first book with Equine Fitness: a Program of Exercises and Routines for Your Horse in 2009. Jec has also been a headline speaker at Western States Horse Expo, American Youth Horse Council, various breed organizations, and has written articles for every major U.S. equestrian magazine. Most prominent in the dressage competition scene, she has trained and competed through the FEI levels but has also competed in long distance trail riding, breed shows, and almost everything in between. She won three consecutive East Coast championships in distance riding, becoming the youngest rider in history to win the prestigious Vermont 100 Mile Competition. For most of her life, Jec has immersed herself in the study of classical dressage training, including ten intensive training residencies in Portugal, two training residencies in Holland, and one residency in Germany with the late Egon von Neindorff. Most recently, she has studied in Melbourne, Australia with Manolo Mendez, original head rider of the Royal School of Equestrian Arts in Spain.
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