INTRODUCING THE
Trail Course Design
Workshop
Learn to Design Great Trail Courses for Horses!
The Trail Course Design Workshop is a step-by-step class that teaches you how to design a trail course for you, your friends, and for trail challenges so you can up your trail obstacle game, practice with purpose, and design cool trail courses!
In just 2 hours, learn the 6 elements of good trail course design, the 12 items to keep in mind while designing, and then, design your own trail course!
The class is available immediately after registration!
The class recording will be available after the class and yours to keep & watch at your convenience, even if you don't make it to the workshop.
STOP searching Pinterest and dreaming
START designing your own trail courses
DO YOU...
...get tired of mediocre trail courses that are boring and not challenging?
...have a bunch of trail obstacles and you don’t know what to do with them?
...want to practice with more purpose?
...want to design a trail course for you and your friends & family?
...think big and you want to design a course for a trail challenge competition or even host a competition?
...want to design a trail course but you don’t know where to start?
The truth is all trail courses are not created equal.
Learn how to recognize a good design, because, the truth is not all horse trail obstacle courses are the same. Some are boring, uncreative, too easy or too hard, or just not safe.
Designing a good horse trail course is a skill that is not taught until now. It is learned by trial or error. It’s all in the details.
So, even if you can’t draw, are not creative, short on time, don’t know where to start, or just lack confidence in general, you can learn how to do this!
Imagine if in just 2 hours you could...
Stop being bored with your obstacles.
Transform a pile of trail obstacles into a cool trail course.
Evaluate courses you find online.
Design a great course so you can make your obstacle practice have purpose, be fun, and appropriately challenging.
Design courses for friends, family, local horse shows and trail challenges.
ARE YOU WONDERING....
how do I learn
to design great
trail courses?
By attending the
HOW TO DESIGN TRAIL COURSES Workshop!
A workshop for those who love Trail Obstacles and who want to up their game and learn to design really cool and fun trail courses for use at home, with friends, or at challenges.
You are invited!
By the time you finished this workshop you will be able to:
Design a fun and effective trail course with appropriate skill levels, variety, and flow!
Design & Create a trail course you will be proud of and your friends will enjoy.
Stop being bored with your trail obstacles.
Design a great course so you can your obstacle practice with your horse has purpose, is fun, and appropriately challenging.
Transform a pile of trail obstacles into a cool trail course.
Design courses for friends, family, local horse shows and trail challenges.
Here is what we will do at the workshop:
Learn...
1. WHY GOOD TRAIL COURSE DESIGN IS IMPORTANT and what makes a poor design.
2. The 6 Elements of Good Trail Course Design Checklist
- To Balance Challenge & Doable for Level of Horses & Riders (without major defeat)
- Produce clear winners, separate the riders for placing, and make a course easy to judge.
- Use a Variety of Obstacle Kinds, Horsemanship Skills, Gaits & Lines
- Make your course Entertaining and Fun to ride and watch.
- Uses entire area in an equal way
- Safety
3. The 12 Things to Keep in Mind when Designing a Trail Course
We will cover types of courses, Variety, Kinds of Obstacles, using what is available, speed factors, lines of travel, difficulty, energy, environment, judge ability, setup, creativity & safety.
4. The Step by Step Trail Course Design Process & Planner
Follow along in the planner and go through the process of designing a great trail course!
Design a trail course during the workshop!
Design a cool trail course,
set it up, & know exactly what to practice!
Really benefited from Kelli’s guidance on designing trail courses. I never really understood all of the details in designing the course. So many factors to consider in addition to just placing obstacles. All of the lines, circles, half circles and straightness on approach/exit to consider. Kelli brings all of these elements together in a simple straight forward way. Thank you for the thoughtful guidance!
Pamela Schoenster, Oakhaven Stables
So who am I and how did I learn how to design trail courses?
In 2006, I (Kelli Paulson) created an event called Trail Rider Challenge. It is a horse trail challenge event created to help you measure your progress with your horse and have some friendly competition. These events have been held at my farm, at other people's pastures and arenas, at horse fairs, horse expos, and at state fairs. The piece that makes each of these events memorable is great course design.
Then in 2020, the Virtual Trail Rider Challenge was created so riders can elnjoy the benefits of trail obstacles, improve their horsemanship, and have some friendly competition, all from home!
16 years later, I have designed a lot of trail courses! I have to admit, over the years, my designs have improved. I have learned so much from trail and error, studing course design in other sports, and judging over 2,000 horse trail course entries!
Give yourself a holiday gift!
Learn how to design trail courses, enjoy a few hours of "horse time" and design a cool trail course with us!
What are you waiting for?
The
Trail Course Design
Workshop!
Join me for a 2-hour online worshop.
(You can watch it all at once or a bit at a time.)
This is what we will discuss:
1. WHY GOOD TRAIL COURSE DESIGN IS IMPORTANT and what makes a poor design.
2. The 6 Elements of Good Trail Course Design and Checklist!
3. The 12 Things to Keep in Mind when Designing a Trail Course
Then...
we will work together and design your own trail course using the
Step by Step Trail Course Design Process & Planner!
.
Class Value = $97
Planner Value = $37
The Workshop recording
is available immediately after checkout.
The class material is yours to keep & watch at your convenience.
BONUS
Bonus items
And because I want you to succeed, here are two BONUSES for you...
BONUS #1: 101 Trail Obstacles List you can use when design your trail courses.
Obstacles List plus level of difficulty rating. Print this PDF and use it while designing trail courses.
VALUE $27
BONUS #2: Sample Trail Courses Booklet
A PDF Booklet of 10 trail courses you can use as a reference!
VALUE $17
This workshop is about learning and doing!
Learn and design a trail course during the workshop.
TOTAL VALUE of this workshop is $178.00.
Today it is ONLY $47.00.
JOIN US for the FUN!
Kelli has a talented eye for detailed trail courses that embody the importance of horsemanship and plain fun. You’ll be challenged do to more with your horse - her courses will be your next addiction with your horse!
Hallie Tierney
LIFETIME ACCESS
You will have access continued access to this workshop so you can work refer back to the class whenever you need to.
FUTURE EDITIONS
This workshop is being offered at $47 this week.
We will offer it again as a full course with a much higher price. If you purchase this workshop and then wish to purchase the course, you will be given a $47 credit towards your purchase.
Who is Kelli?
Kelli Paulson uses trail obstacles to help you improve your horsemanship.
You can do more with your horse than you ever imagined!
Do you want your horse to be confident, willing and responsive? Do you want to be more confident, know exactly what to practice and have less fear?
Then let’s do this.
My passion is teaching you how to understand and apply horsemanship in an effective way by using trail obstacles. I use vaquero style methods with a little dressage plus what I have learned through my own experiences to break things down in a way you can understand and apply to your riding. We will learn skills both on the ground and in the saddle and apply those skills to trail obstacles. Trail obstacles are a fabulous way to measure our progress.
Kelli is the author of "How to Build Simple Trail Obstacles and the co-author of the "Working Equitation Handbook". Kelli has been teaching horsemanship clinics for 15 years.
My "Confidence" Guarantee!
If you are not satisfied with the workshop after watching the material and working through our design process, you may request a refund.
I specifically search for events that have courses designed by Kelli. I find her courses can be as simple as I may need for a green horse or as challenging as I need for an experienced horse.
With simple options, the same obstacle can be ridden by all levels of horses and riders. I have found Kelli’s courses to be safe for the horses, not causing injury. Horse and rider safety is top priority for me.
Kelli’s obstacles are well thought out, creative, and usually simple to recreate at home. I really like that Kelli incorporates horsemanship into the pattern. A rider with lots of finesse can carefully think out the course “lines” to maneuver the horse from one obstacle to another. Kelli sets up her courses for smooth transitions that can display a high level horse rider quiet clearly. I recommend Kelli for course design.