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Its that time of year again, BFBA Focus 2023

Again this year we are going to get as much content to you from the set up of the event, the 42nd International Team Horseshoeing Competition, and from the Focus event itself. 

Here is a few of Brian's first day of set up interviews he captured today......
Listen out for more tomorrow

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Tiffany Gardner Dip WCF CJF is a North American farrier currently on the Edward Martin Farriers Cultural Exchange Program. We met whilst she was taking part in the Farriers Foundation’s Tour de Farrier bike ride. We chatted and found out she was a fellow educator at the Pacific Coast Shoeing School. I invited her to spend a couple of days at the Hereford School of Farriery. She stayed for over a week both teaching, shoeing and even mountain biking!

In this episode we discuss the route in to education and the benefits and the pitfalls and discuss some of the common problems we see in students and their learning.

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Bone Spavin is a common pathology seen in the hock joints of the horses hind limb.

In this episode Wayne Preece FWCF and I discuss Bone Spavin, its causes and the available Farriery treatment protocols.

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The last episode of the BFBA Focus Podcast…..  In this episode we speak to the industry suppliers and trade stand holders at this year’s event. 

BFBA Focus 2022 was a fantastic event and is going to move onwards and upwards next year. I hope you have enjoyed these episodes as much as me and Brian enjoyed making them! More content to come from Brian via his Podcast The Mullins Farrier Podcast in the future including some amazing interviews from some of the industry greats.

For me, on this channel normal programming will resume with the standard Lockdown Farriery Podcast educational mandate.

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Day 1 of the BFBA Focus Event

In this episode we Speak to David Gulley FWCF, The Farriers Foundation (Grant Moon FWCF, Jon Nunn FWCF, Mick Handley RSS & Dan Hewer Dip WCF), and then the Livecast we did with Haydn Price Dip WCF & Spud Allison Dip WCF

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Day one of the competition started with a 6 am start for me and Brian interviewing Chief Steward Mark Watson FWCF on the way to the forge. Brian then broke out into Sport caster mode capturing all the day 1 action.

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Me and Brian have finally arrived at Stoneleigh. We arrived at an empty giant tent and exhibition hall. And then the most important team arrived. Mark Watson and the Purple Army have been running the Competition for around the last 7 years and have run the best International Team Competition in the world.

We spoke to some of the volunteers and some of the competitors as they turned up on site. 

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The Road to Stoneleigh..............

I have teamed up on behalf of the British Farriers and Blacksmiths Association with my good friend and fellow Podcaster Brian Mullins to capture the build up to and the main Event at this year's BFBA Focus Event and the 2022 International Team Farriery Competition. 

In this episode we spoke to team USA as they set up camp practising at Alex Mercer's forge in the wilds of Lincolnshire in preparation for this weekend's international team farriery competition.

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The Road to Stoneleigh..............

I have teamed up on behalf of the British Farriers and Blacksmiths Association with my good friend and fellow Podcaster Brian Mullins to capture the build up to and the main Event at this year's BFBA Focus Event and the 2022 International Team Farriery Competition. 

Today we caught up with Team Canada who are practicing at Mark Watson's forge as part of their journey to the International at Stoneleigh. It is fascinating to see the commitment that these competitors put themselves through to attend these international competitions. 

Look out for Team USA tomorrow.

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In 2020, during the first COVID-19 lockdown when I started this Podcast the whole idea was to reach out to my students who could not attend college due to the pandemic. since then, it has turned in to a bit of a monster being listened to in over 75 countries. 

So, this episode it's all down to the students..........

Teaching and learning and learning by teaching. Sometimes learning can be done by presenting a subject to your peers. At the school of farriery Hereford, we used this technique to get students to research, study and present information to their peers as a way of learning and also embedding the used of I.T. and communication skills. These are valuable behaviours for the modern professional farrier. 

Group 45S are a group of Trailblazer apprentices currently attending their 4th block at college which is in the second year of their apprenticeship.

They were given the task of presenting 2 lessons, one half had Thrush and Canker, and the others had Seedy toe and WLD. When they presented, we mic'd them up and after giving their full consent we agreed to let me publish their work here. Well done to all that took part the work they put in in a short timeline was very impressive.