The screen brings an entirely new dimension to the riding experience as it lets riders really immerse themselves in the arena and have fun while engaging in a vigorous physical activity that challenges their skills on multiple levels. The horse can serve as a fully interactive simulator, allowing riders to select the path to ride on, to ride to a screen, and take tests. The RDA simulator also has special buttons that allow riding instructors to adjust the speed, and sensors to help with rein and leg control. The riding simulator offers a highly realistic simulation of riding on a real horse and several other useful features, including therapeutic lateral action in all gaits, which helps develop the rider’s strength and muscle tone, and a lower neck angle, which makes it easier for the rider to mount and dismount. In addition to being a challenging physical activity in itself, horse riding develops riders’ confidence, concentration, stamina, coordination, posture, stability and strength, and provides them with a sense of achievement. The Mr Williams RDA programme (Riding for Disabled) simulator allows people with disabilities to reap the benefits of physical activity by enjoying horse riding in a safe environment and allows people with physical and mental disabilities to enjoy horse riding in a controlled setting and reap the physical and mental benefits of a valuable form of exercise.

Allow riders to develop a more balanced way of riding.Disabled riders with the adapted RDA programme.Rehabilitation helping build up muscles after injury/surgery.Adults and Children learning to trot and to progress onto canter.It can help anyone but specifically it helps: It also helps build confidence in nervous or ‘returning’ riders, as it removes the unpredictability of riding a living animal. Mr Williams is excellent for assessing/improving technique in experienced riders, both for jumping and flatwork. The mechanical horse gives the rider a chance to practise a different balance taking this feel to the real horse. ‘Unlearning’ a ‘wrong’ posture can be difficult. While a real horse may become tired and unstimulated, this horse performs to order. This then helps as an aid to yourself and your instructor on correcting any imbalances. If you are one sided or too heavy in the saddle the computer will highlight this on the screen. The interactive computer also relays your body position and how your body moves with Mr Williams.

Much can be learnt from recording the performance and replaying it immediately on screen. Alternatively, you can practise riding school figures, transitions and dressage movements. Mr Williams is used with an interactive computer screen that enables the rider to actually ride a dressage test.

Riding a horse simulator