There’s a simple solution. It’s called Attention. You may think I’m going to tell you how to get your horse to pay attention to you, but the real key to understanding your horse and him understanding you is you learning how to pay the right kind of attention. Most people’s attention goes around very…
Does your horse: 1. Tune you out 2. Lean on the bit 3. Doesn’t listen If this is you, something could be missing in your relationship with your horse. Here’s a curious thing: you don’t have to know what is missing in order to figure it out. Once you acknowledge that there is a gap…
Pumpkin Once upon a time, a kind hearted appaloosa lesson horse jumped a fence a little bit too high for the ambitious woman on his back. The horse’s name was Pumpkin. The rider will remain unnamed. As Pumpkin leaped over the jump and landed, the woman bounced right out of the saddle. Instead of landing…
In the actual moment of training, if you try too hard and want what you want too much, you get into the future moment instead of the present moment of connection with your horse. Your mind focuses on something finished and near perfect. If it doesn’t happen, you end up using more leg and more…