Beginner/Intermediate Riding Camp --  First Session
June 18-22, 2012
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Camp Fee: $500

Our Beginner/Intermediate Day Camp is perfect for young riders who want to ride every day and have a blast enjoying horsey adventures!  This camp includes:

• daily riding lessons
• horse safety and care
• tack and equipment care
• grooming and haltering
• saddling and bridling
• equine veterinary medicine
• equine farriery (shoeing and hoof care)
• horsey fun and games
• horsey crafts
• water fun, water slides, silly string and more

This is always a very popular camp and it's perfect for young riders who want to learn more about horses and have some really good fun at the barn.  Our campers will also make lots of new friends and have a blast.  Our indoor riding ring is also a great place to escape the heat!

Campers should pack a lunch daily Monday – Thursday. Friday, we'll have our world famous pizza and ice cream sundae party -- complete with awards ceremony. Daily snacks, drinks and water will be provided.

Our counselors are excellent riders and experienced trainers. Safety is our #1 concern.

Academy New-To-Showing Camp
For Intermediate Riders
June 25-29
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Includes Participation in an Academy Show
(Saturday, June 30 at Latta Park in Huntersville, NC)
Camp Fee: $500 + $225 Show Fee, discounted $100 for this week's campers
(Please note:  CLS will provide show clothing for this show only for riders who don't already have an appropriate show outfit)


The CLS Academy Show Rider Camp is geared for riders who are already cantering, or close to learning to canter. Riders in this camp are already showing in their first season, or they are interested in learning about horse showing.

Designed for riders, ages 6 – 14, this camp will be intensive, and oh so exciting! This camp is open to current CLS riders only.

Riders will:

• participate in two intensive daily riding lessons (one may be on the lunge line)
• work out daily learning core strengthening and balance
• work with a sports psychologist on mental preparedness for competition
• learn basic yoga techniques for mental and physical preparedness
• learn to show groom a horse by themselves (Each rider will totally prepare a horse for the weekend's show, including washing, clipping, polishing tack and hooves, etc.)
  
• learn show ring riding techniques
• learn proper dress requirements for showing
• learn judging standards and practice judging actual classes
• participate in video critiques of each rider at the beginning of the week, and again at the end, in preparation for the horse show
  
• plus tons of horsey fun, crafts, games, and yes, daily water fun on the ginormous CLS Water Jumpee!!!

Our camp leaders and counselors are excellent riders and experienced trainers. Safety, as always, is our #1 concern. Campers should pack a lunch daily Monday – Thursday. Friday, campers will enjoy our world famous pizza/ice cream sundae lunch, complete with awards ceremony. Daily snacks, drinks and water will be provided.

Intermediate to Advanced Rider Day Camp, with one camp out night at the barn!
(Including vaulting, synchronized riding, western sport riding, communication with a loose horse through subtle body language and eye contact, and Indian horse whispering techniques!)
July 9-13
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Camp Fee: $600



The Intermediate to Advance Rider Camp is for riders who can already walk, trot and canter on a horse and are ready to take their equestrian skills to the next level.  This will include vaulting lessons (gymnastics on horseback), synchronized riding (riding to music in formation with a team), and western sport riding, as well! Riders also will work with loose horses, communicating with them by learning horse whispering techniques.

This is an incredibly unusual, intense, day camp for higher level riders -- culminating in a barn sleepover on Thursday night! Campers will be responsible for bringing their own tents. We will camp outside the barn, with our horses corraled beside of us, while we talk horses and roast dinner over our campfire!

Riders in this camp do not have to be CLS Academy Team members, although many campers will be skilled show riders. Campers DO NOT have to be current CLS riders, but must be at the intermediate riding level.

Riders will:

• participate in two intensive daily riding lessons (One may be on the lunge line. One may be in the bareback pad. One may be with the vaulting surcingle.)
  
• participate in daily yoga for horseback riders
  
• daily vaulting lessons and/or synchronized riding exercise
• learn to communicate with and command a horse that is free in an enclosed area by using subtle body language, eye contact and Indian horse whispering techniques
  
• be featured in and produce their own video, to be published on the CLS web, to show beginner riders proper techniques
  
• enjoy wonderful silly horsey fun, crafts, games, and yes, daily water fun on the ginormous CLS Water Jumpee!!
  
• leave with a commemorative t-shirt that they also will design and produce, that will be unique to this camp only.
  

Safety is our #1 concern. Campers should pack a lunch daily Monday – Thursday. Friday, riders will enjoy our world famous pizza/ice cream sundae awards ceremony. Daily snacks, drinks and water will be provided.

This is the second session of our Beginner/Intermediate Day Camp.  It's perfect for young riders who are ready to ride every day and have a great time doing it!  This camp includes:

• daily riding lessons
• horse safety and care
• tack and equipment care
• grooming and haltering
• saddling and bridling
• equine veterinary medicine
• equine farriery (shoeing and hoof care)
• horsey fun and games
• horsey crafts
• water fun, water slides, silly string and more

Lessons are taught in our indoor riding ring which is perfect for hot summer days. Campers should pack a lunch daily Monday – Thursday. On Friday, lunch will be provided. Daily snacks, drinks and water will be provided.

Our counselors are excellent riders and experienced trainers. Safety is our #1 concern.