Equestrian WA Coach Survey 2024

Equestrian WA Coach Survey 2024
The EWA Coaching Committee is holding their annual Coach Up- Date clinic on Monday, 11 March 2024, at the State Equestrian Centre Brigadoon.

The purpose of this email is to invite you, as a current coach to have input into the clinic’s morning session.

As you are aware Equestrian coaching can be is an isolated profession with little or no opportunity to share issues, challenges or discuss clever ideas with other coaches.

Our sport, like so many others, is experiencing changing issues such as ‘the competitive parent syndrome’, coach and official abuse, social license around the riding of horses in sport, social media for self-promotion, business promotion and as a forum for cyber bullying along with many other issues. At the same time, we have many wonderful coaches doing amazing things with riders and horses that we feel could also be show-cased at this clinic.

To obtain your feedback we invite you to complete the attached Survey to assist the EWA coaching committee determine the major challenges facing equestrian coaches in WA so we can discuss some of the most pressing issues.

The idea is to identify from the survey the major issues and discuss these at the clinic through ‘breakout groups’ which will be facilitated by a member of the coaching committee.

We value your ideas and want this coaching update clinic to be interactive and of benefit to everyone who attends.

Thank you for your participation.

Dinah Fleming
On behalf of the
EWA Coaching Committee

Equestrian WA Coach Survey 2024
We invite you to complete the attached Survey to assist the EWA Coaching Committee determine the major challenges facing equestrian coaches in WA so these can guide future updating clinics.

Please rank the following topics from 1 to 8, with number 1 being the topic that most interests and two as your second priority and so on down the list. Please note there is a space to add your own topic if not listed below:

	RANKING 1-8
Parental pressure to hurry the learning and skill development of their child or horse to the detriment of horse welfare and / or rider safety.
Rider pressure to hurry their own learning and skill development to compete in higher grades at the detriment of horse welfare and / or rider safety.
Derogative comments (which is a form of coach abuse) from either a rider, official, event organiser, another coach or parent either in a public event/club or in a yard you regularly coach.
Dealing with the social license to use horses for sport (including assurance you are educating your clients of these issues)
Including horse welfare as paramount in all that you demonstrate and teach.
Gain more knowledge in the challenges and benefits of setting up a horse establishment such as a riding school, agistment/training centre or specialist yard such as a therapeutic riding facility.
Sharing positive coaching experiences with the ability to learn new techniques from other coaches in a group forum. EG. Different ways of teaching the rising trot on the correct diagonal, other clever ideas you can offer.
Other topics that are not covered, which you rank as important.

If other, please provide examples:

WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRESENT AT OUR EA COACH UPDATE?

The Coaching Committee recognise WA has a great depth of professional knowledge and experience across a variety of disciplines whether it be the specialist coach who teaches beginners, the community coach teaching at the riding club level through to the elite coach skilled in advanced techniques of jumping and dressage.

To share your experiences and knowledge we ask if you would like to present at a future updating clinic, if so, please either contact a member of the EWA coaching committee or complete the following:
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