Here’s some fun ways to spice up your ground work and provide your horse another platform to understand pressure and release. Be careful when you start this, you may have your horse good off of the lead rope, but you also may find that this is a different feel for your horse. I mention this Read More >
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Snaffle Bit Placement
Today we are covering the placement of the snaffle bit. In this video I go over objective information covering proper placement and the reasons why we hang a bit in the horses mouth the way we do. I also cover some basic anatomy of the horses mouth, which will help you identify potential problems if Read More >
Half Pass set up
In this video we will be going over several movements you can use to prepare the horse for the half pass. In part two we will cover a few more movements as well as the half pass. To start off we are working on much more than the half pass, not only are we Read More >
Horsemanship Thoughts Part 2
Continued from earlier post: Now for another aspect of feel and how we take the slack out of our reins, this is crucial, this is one way we communicate with our horse. How does a horse move, most all of them that I see (with only a few exceptions) are very fluid and graceful, now Read More >
Horsemanship Thoughts Part 1
Today we are diving deep into the thoughts and philosophy on horsemanship, which you all know relates to so much more than horses, it really does relate to so many aspects in life. My main focus with this video is to help people help themselves, or if you are already helping yourself, helping others Read More >
Half Pass set up
In this video we will be going over several movements you can use to prepare the horse for the half pass. In part two we will cover a few more movements as well as the half pass. To start off we are working on much more than the half pass, not only are we teaching Read More >
Tips on worming your (difficult) horse
Today we are covering deworming your horse and some methods you can use to handle the horse that can be difficult to deworm. The number one key for this to be a successful endeavor for both you and your horse is preparation. If you have a horse that you know is difficult (or you think Read More >
Flexion and the Feet
This weekend I had the opportunity to talk to a good friend of mine about horses and how we can better ourselves in communicating our ideas more effectively to the horse as well as explaining it to others. One of the many topics we dove into was the soft feel. This word has several different Read More >
Looking For Effort
Thoughts on getting our horses enthused about our ideas. At the end of the day my main goal is to communicate effectively with horses as well as I do with people. This doesn’t always work out how I’d like, but it’s an ever changing process that gets a little better with each horse. It all Read More >