Trailer Loading
February 24, 2021
Once you and your horse have practiced all these lessons well, and opposition reflex to your requests has dramatically diminished, you are ready to try trailer loading. Trouble free trailer loading is the result of respect. The more respect you have from your horse, the more willing he will be to get into the trailer
Challenges & Tasks
February 10, 2021
Now that you have all the natural riding principles in place, it’s time to task and challenge them so you can put them to purpose. One Rein Tasks (Halter & 12′ Line or Horseman’s String) Place 2 buckets 4ft. apart. Try to ride through them at a walk, then at a trot. Now try to
Lesson 20 Controlled Catastrophe
February 5, 2021
Your horse can only be as brave as you! How to stay calm, cool, collected and focused in a catastrophic situation. With horses being prey animals, they are designed to spook at the slightest possibility of danger. Rather than punish the horse for this (he really is not wrong!) look at how you can get
Lesson 19 Sideways
January 19, 2021
The better you horse goes backwards and sideways, the better he’ll do everything else. Like backing up, sideways is a manoeuvre horses don’t do very much. Yet this will become very important to you later as the foundation of turns, spins, leads and lead changes. Equipment: Natural Hackamore; and a fence! You’ll do the sideways
Lesson 18 – The 9 Step Back Up
January 9, 2021
Training your hands to close slowly… and open quickly, teaching the horse to back up confidently. In teaching a horse to back up, there are two things to consider: this is not something horses do all the time. Forward is the most used direction of the horse. to ask the horse to go backwards, you
Lesson 17 – Carrot Stick Riding
January 5, 2021
Learning how to “push” your turns, developing an independent seat, self carriage for the horse. You’ll remember in the myths we busted at the beginning of the section on riding, that leaning in the direction of the turn is counter productive for the horse. It actually unbalances him and will cause him to lean on
Lesson 16 – Follow the rail
January 4, 2021
A great program to teach your horse consistency, purity of gait, self carriage and to learn the responsibility of thinking for himself. This is a program. It means you’ll need to do it 7 days (sessions) in a row. Even if you could only ride once a week, do this for the next 7 times
Lesson 15 – Focus with your whole body
January 1, 2021
According to Pat Parelli, this is the most important four letter word you’ll ever learn! (Fo.C.U.S!!) Focus give you feel. Focus and feel give you timing. Focus, feel and timing give you balance. Your whole body is tied in with focus, especially if you focus right down to your belly button! Try this simulation with
Lesson 14 – Guiding your Horse
December 22, 2020
The direct rein and indirect rein in action. Once you have proved yourself to be a good passenger, now you can prove to your horse that you are a good guider. The secret lies in setting it up so the horse finds it easy to move in the direction you want him to move. The
Lesson 13 – Passenger Lessons
December 14, 2020
How to become a good rider for your horse From the beginning, most of us are taught to take instant control of the horse. Take a rein in each hand so you can stop and steer the horse. To develop a natural relationship, this is the worst thing you could do! It teaches the horse
