No, we only offer private and individual lessons as part of our one quarter long sessions.

During your assessment lesson, the instructor will evaluate your mounting, posture, confidence, and technique to understand your current skill level. This helps them determine the appropriate riding group for you and identify the first area for improvement. The focus is on ensuring your safety and accurately assessing your abilities.

During your assessment lesson, you'll have a short lunge line session to assess your balance, coordination, and comfort on the horse. Afterward, we'll ask you some questions and discuss your goals. We also answer any questions you may have. If you're interested, we'll offer you lessons and find a spot in our program.

At Pony Gang, as a Beginner rider your lessons will start with our Rider’s Basic Boot Camp, where you'll learn the essentials in a 4-week course (1 lesson a week). You'll begin with horse safety, grooming, and tacking up, followed by correct mounting and dismounting. This program is designed to build your confidence and provide a solid foundation before moving on to regular lessons.

You will join our regular lessons program. The first riding lessons here will usually Lunge Line lessons. The horse goes on the lunge line (long leash) in a circle around the riding instructor starting in a walk (slowest gait) and from there move up in the gaits. This way the Instructor can control the horse at any time while you as the rider can focus on yourself, your seat and your balance on the horse.

Beginner riders - you will go through a boot camp where you learn how to get your horse ready yourself.

Riders with experience - one of our team members will show you where you can find everything. During your Assessment lesson you had to show that you can perform all tasks needed to get your horse ready for your lesson. So our trainers will meet you at the arena.

We have an online Pony Gang Channel with an educational section. Here you will find everything you need to know about horses.

You should go at least once a week to riding lessons. But: The more lessons you take per Week the better. Then your progress is bigger and faster. Because the saying  “Riding is only learned by riding!” applies, so we recommend a minimum of 2 weekly lessons. 

At the beginning if you are a Beginner rider you will have private lessons on the lunge line. Once you have the basics down and you can walk/trot on your own, you will switch into a small beginner group. But we always try that there are other beginner riders having a lunge line lesson at the same time, so that you can socialize.  

Riders with experience will also be having private lessons in the beginning till we get you know your riding better and see with what group we can match you.

In the beginning, if you are still learning the basics, it will be approximately a 25-30 minute private lesson on horseback (one-on-one). In a group lesson, it will be a 45-60min lesson on horseback (2-4 riders). But you also need to plan around 15-40 minutes for getting your horses tack out, catching your horse, grooming, tacking up and after your lesson for untacking and putting your horse back up into the pasture. 

In general, each student is riding one our school horses during their lesson. You are not sharing a horse during your lesson.

For beginners, individual lessons on the lunge line make sense, then you switch to a beginner group with a few riders. Depending on the progress then follows the change into a more advanced group. Of course you can also permanently or again in between take One-on-one lessons, because one achieves the greatest learning successes with it.