All Blog Posts Tagged 'training blog' (8)

Using Music in the training of horses.

I am having such a pleasure working with my horses and not too long ago I discovered the advantage of training my horses using music.

In between working with the new dressage exercises from Carolyn Resnicks blog. In-between theses exercises I have had a good progress in…

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Added by Stina Herberg on June 17, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Horses have us figured out!

After 55 million years of evolution, you gotta believe they have us figured out. So much so, that I believe there's a book of tricks hidden somewhere. They all have it. They all know the tricks. You know what I mean. Leave the reins in the wrong place - they get chewed on. Trying to take a picture - your "stone still" horse appears to be standing on an ant hill. Late for a trail ride - your horse decides the trailer is "just not for me right now". There… Continue

Added by John Harrer on May 20, 2010 at 2:32pm — 2 Comments

Berit, Hans Arne And Their Two Stallions.

I've know Berit since I was 14. We have always shared an interest for horses and we both lost the true love of our lives. Hers' was a big black gelding called Hector. She swore she would never get another horse ever again, but a few years passed by, and one day she called me up and said, "I just became a horse owner again". She told me that the horse she had bough was a new born stallion. A native…

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Added by Hannah on May 14, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

A Conversation with Jessie

I was up at six and had the horses moved and Jessie saddled by six-thirty. Armed with with my index card of exercises, fresh from re-watching the DVD's for the ??th time, we were ready to go.

The first exercise, Yield-to-Stop at walk, trot, and cantor, went pretty well. Jessie stops easily and isn't crazy about yielding or flexing, but I could feel her trying and getting softer in the process. The next exercise is the same except I add a bending circle around my inside leg and her head… Continue

Added by John Harrer on May 13, 2010 at 1:11pm — No Comments

MAKE YOUR OWN KIND OF MUSIC

UPDATE ON THE HORSES

FRANK

Pic.: Frankie in the evening sun

I couldn't be more happy with him today. The last two sessions I kept him almost entirely in walk or returned him to…

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Added by Wiola Grabowska on May 11, 2010 at 5:41am — No Comments

When the bad things happen...

...it erases the memory of the good.

It had to happen. It happens to everyone, I just did not know it would happen today. The day started out so good. The sun was shining, the birds were singing and spring was in the air. The horses graze 24/7 in a huge pasture that reaches over 90.000 square meters.. As I walked through the forest to find the horses I had such a good feeling about this day.

(The pony…

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Added by Hannah on May 8, 2010 at 2:30pm — 4 Comments

Of Riding and Training

The sun is rising earlier. The sun is setting latter. The opportunities to ride are more plentiful. Anyone who has followed this blog or it's shadow on blogger (Training Jessie) knows that I'm trying to work through all the exercises in the two Downunder Horsemanship's Gaining Respect on the Ground and Riding with Confidence… Continue

Added by John Harrer on May 7, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Ride Like You've Never Been Thrown

Let’s imagine that you’ve strapped yourself to a rocket. Now add muscle, flesh and a brain to that rocket. Seeing as the rocket now has a mind of its own and muscle to control its every whim. What would you say to that?

Maybe you already know where I’m going with this, but saddle up with me for…

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Added by Cheryl Bruder on May 1, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments