On March 3rd 2021 our team travelled to the KWPN headquarters in Ermelo to take the first measurements for the KWPN talent scouting project. During this day we measured 30 horses (both showjumping and dressage horses) who were stabled at the centre for a performance...
The first report for the development of the Athletic Skills Garden for the Equestrian Sport has just been submitted to the Gemeente Midden-Delfland (the municipality where we hope to establish the Horse-Garden). For the past few months we’ve done research on the...
The end of January, during the difficult times at Corona, we kicked off our "Road To the European Championships" training support program at Stal 't Kabel for two very ambitious pony riders: Esmee Winters and Maud van Walstijn. With just a couple of more months to go...
Meten is weten, het is een adagium in talloze sporten maar nog niet in de paardensport volgens de mensen achter het EquInnoLab. in Weert. "We kunnen roepen dat de sport moet blijven bestaan of ervoor zorgen dat de sport blijft bestaan" Daar waar in andere sporten al...
“Wij willen de paardensport begrijpelijk, transparant en trainbaar maken”, zegt Alain Broft, directeur van EquInnoLab, een van de twaalf innovatiecentra die onlangs Certified Partners zijn geworden in het Sportinnovator-netwerk. De centra – ontmoetings- en...
De afgelopen periode zijn de eerste 12 centra voor sportinnovatie certified partner geworden van Sportinnovator. De innovatiecentra vormen een belangrijk onderdeel van het netwerk van Sportinnovator. Onafhankelijk adviesbureau RevelX heeft de centra beoordeeld aan de...
The thesis period of our intern Kim Koopmans unfortunately came to an end last week. Nevertheless, she finished a really interesting project with great potential for the future. A short insight in the results and continuation of the pilot study are described in this...
After much desk work, it was time to get into practice! Our intern Kim Koopmans designed a conceptual marker model, which is able to objectify the equine talent recognition process. Last Thursday, KWPN Inspector Marian Dorresteijn visited EquInnoLab. to score three...
Today, our intern Kim Koopmans finished her interviews with her Skype meeting with Henk Dirksen about his KWPN inspection job for Show Jumping horses. Yesterday, she interviewed Floor Dröge about Dressage. Another information source for the pilot study on the use of...
Today we did a live test of the new equestrian sensor platform. This test performed with of the re-developed ReinCoach together by our own test athlete Jenny Schreven on the lovely horse Hargenta, a.k.a. Harry. FreeSense Solutions came to our centre today to have the...
Yesterday, we received the news that Willy van Doornik has passed away. In his function as advisor of 'Horsefood' Willy always supported EquInnoLab. and we want to thank him for his enthousiasm. Willy van Doornik was the specialst when it comes to horse food. He knew...
This week our intern Kim Koopmans visited several Grand Prix riders to interview them on their vision on talent recognition in horses. Their practical experience with talented horses is a valuable information source to include in a current pilot study on the use of...