Handling Competition Nerves | Ashley Donadt
In The Irons
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8m 36s
Ashley Donadt shares strategies for dealing with competition nerves. These include acknowledging the source of your nerves to help take away their power, looking at the physical effects nerves have on your body, thinking about how your nerves are affecting your horse and establishing non-score related goals for your ride.
Ashley is an FEI dressage rider and USDF bronze and silver medalist with distinction. Along with husband/head groom Evan Donadt, she is based out of Donadt Dressage in San Diego, California. Before starting her own business in 2017, she previously worked for David Blake and his wife, Rebecca Rigdon, as well as Elizabeth Ball. Since 2019, she has been training with three-time Olympic medalist Guenter Seidel. She also has trained with FEI Dressage World Cup rider AnnA Buffini and debuted at Grand Prix on Buffini’s schoolmaster Sundayboy.
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