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	Kim Van Buskirk didn't grow up on horseback, she grew up swimming. Her youth was spent in a pool competing in synchronized swimming at the national level. After high school she became a nationally ranked coach and judge while attending college working on a PhD in sports psychology. When Linda introduced her to horses she never looked back, and hardly ever got into a pool again! Her first several years of riding weren't pretty because she had a hard time staying on top of the horse. In the late-90's she was introduced to Parelli Natural Horsemanship and has since advanced through the levels program with her horses. Throughout her horsemanship years she has studied with Ray Hunt, Jack Brainard, Lee Smith Mark Rashid, Pat and Linda Parelli. Kim's partner is a registered paint gelding, nicknamed Lakota, and she teaches select students to be better partners with their horses through a variety of natural horsemanship methodologies. Linda Shipp has been playing with horses for over 35 years. Her first horse, Arthur Godfrey, was born in her dad's front yard in Indiana. He gave him to her as a colt and they became partners until he passed away at the ripe old age of 35. She started him under saddle and tried to run barrels on him. He didn't like it and she knew if he didn't like barrels he'd never be good at them so she laid the barrels on their sides and tried jumping them. Her intuitive sense about Godfrey paid off. They fox hunted for years over the wild and wooly southern Indiana hills and were invited to ride up with the men with colors -- an incredible honor for her and her paint gelding. Also studying classical horsemanship at the time, she taught Godfrey how to do canter pirouettes and lead changes on every third stride. During her fox hunting years she studied with Gordon Wright, who was training some of the United States' Olympic athletes. Linda currently enjoys riding her registered quarter horse gelding, Teddy, and teaches students interested in dressage and jumping.