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Lope/Canter
Training
Recognizing
the signal is the most important part of clean lope transitions,
whether you are asking for a trot-lope or a walk-lope transition. As
soon as I am sure that she recognizes my seat and leg aids from the
turnback to the outside, I up the ante and start doing turnbacks to the
inside. Doing the turnbacks to the inside involves changing my aids
from turnback to lope, which will "explain" the difference to Wendy. ... More (5
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Laterals and Flexing
Now that we know
what we have to work on to keep our horses straight, we'll teach him to
bend.
You'll learn to use your legs in a more knowledgeable manner.
You'll learn to separate your hands.
Your horse will learn to recognize different leg cues.
Your horse will learn to give his nose and balance his body.
Teach
the step sequence first...
I try to get an inside eye,
Then an inside cheek, ...More (3 pages)... |
Riding
Skills for Working Moms
We would all like to be better riders, but finding the time for lessons
can be hard. The tips on this page are meant to improve your riding, by
explaining simple little details that you may not learn in a lesson.
They are meant to improve your coordination, your muscle strength and
your feel.
These instructions all work on practice-makes-perfect.
You won't need someone telling you whether or not you are doing them
correctly, the constant repetition will improve your overall
skill. ...More
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How
a horse thinks
Daily life for a horse among horses consist in keeping their place in
the pecking order. This is a fact of life 1,000s of years old and is
part of every horses character. If he is the top horse on the pecking
order, he will get the best grass, the most water, the best shelter. In
short survival depends on being as high up on the pecking order as they
can be.
You,
the human, aren't exempt from his attempt to put things in order around
him. You are either higher on the order or you are not. No in betweens
at all. I like to have a 51-49%
partnership with my horses. I don't like to be too ruff, or be mean,
but in case I get challenged, I am very quick to remind them, which one
of us has the 51%. ...More (3
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Teach your horse to
lunge
First you gotta teach him to go around you.
Pressure
and release is the A and O of horse training, and it works here too.
Get a set of signals, keep them consistent, and be quiet when your
horse does what he is supposed to do.
I raise both my lunge arm and my whip arm as my signal for go
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The
Dropped Shoulder
That is a very
common problem. A problem that all horses will exhibit,
each and every one of them, during the early stages of training. And if
you can use your legs very strongly, balance with your seat and use
your back very effectively, it is a problem that is easily solved. Some
horses just gain experience and stop doing it, and some have to be
corrected by training. If you aren't as strong as the average horse
trainer, or if your horse is a little more than what you can handle
sometimes, try these two methods. I teach it to my students, and have
had good luck with it. ...More... |
A
better way to mount
Aah
sheesh, what else? Just grab the saddle and get one
leg on each side and your butt in the middle. That's the purpose of the
exercise. How hard can it be?
But as you may have figured out already, nothing with horses is as easy
as it seems and every action will have a reaction. So here is how to do
it right, just in case something happens or your horse develops a bad
habit. ...More... |
A better way to tie your horse
I happened to run
across this little piece of information purely by accident. ...
And in the process of getting lazy, and just doing it any ole way, we
started just daisy chaining the halter rope. You don't have to feed the
entire rope thru every time, just a tiny loop, and it comes loose by
simply pulling on the tail.
I never actually thought it would stop a horse is he were very
determined to pull away.
But
most of our horses are pretty well trained, so for a couple of years,
we used the daisy chain and never had a horse test it. ...More... |
Common
Sense Equipment
Owning horses
tends to eat a
hole in your checkbook easy enough. Here are a few pieces of equipment
that are cheap to own or make, while being good quality
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I use the same saddle on almost all my horses. Naturally not all my
horses have the same back, so I use a Mattress Saver Pad from Wally
World to round out the difference. ...More... |
My favorite links:
- International Performance Horse Development Association
- Horse City Training Board
- HGS Training Board
- Global Horse Culture |
Contact Info
Julia Slater
POBox 302, Dighton, KS 67839
Cell: 620.295.0241
Email: julia@slaterhorsetraining.com |
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