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The club where every month we work on refining an exercise to keep growing and building our horsemanship.
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Thank you for being here and welcome to our club! The welcome and getting started videos (7 core principles and 4 basic movements) as well as a few worksheets can be found below or click here.
The turn around helps us develop turns on the haunches and forehand. It also helps with transitions and power (collection). It can motivate the low energy horse and can balance a rushy horse.
Teaching our equines to understand steady pressure. Developing our feel and timing to capture softness in our equine's responses.
The weave pattern can be creative and fun. From tight leg yields to big loopy serpentines. These help us work on bend and straightness. Adding transitions can be a great tool to help motivate a low energy horse. The pattern can help relax a speedy horse.
Figure 8’s can be very powerful! In Hand it allows you to switch your horse's eye at every turn, it asks you to draw and push your horse.
Later it develops balance for changes in direction and maintaining a bend. It can help with leg yields and transitions.
By setting up the exercise as a
puzzle your horse has to solve and bringing out the curiosity and playfulness in our equines we build confidence. We ask our equines to become partners and start to really participate in what we are focused on. We also hone in on our intentions, focus, and subtle body language.
Why- to build confidence -
Confidence in our partnership
Confidence in exploring new things
Confidence in ourselves (horse and human)
Build confidence as learners and leaders
Confidence in our ability to solve puzzles
These types of exercises focus on mental work and can really help keep things interesting for our horses.
By isolating and moving the haunches and shoulders we develop straightness and balance. We also develop the ability to bend. Starting with simple yields we can see progression into gymnastically more beneficial and challenging movements.
Why- In the beginning to build balance and relaxation mentally, emotionally, and physically. Going sideways can help a horse gain focus and understand straightness and balance. In advancing stages to add flexibility, thoroughness, and mobility. Sideways movements are gymnastically very important to the physical development of horse and rider. In refinement we develop strength and power. Sideways or lateral movements can greatly refine transitions and the lifting of the thoracic sling (think withers coming up)
Why- In the beginning to build confidence and relaxation, in advancing to add precision and bend, and in refinement to add power and collection.
Going from bend to straight and bend again helps with flexibility. Maintaining gait in a bend builds strength and balance. Adding transitions increases
power. Adding poles increases balance.
Start Here!
This video will walk you through how the Club works!
I recommend you watch and work on the Basics and revisit these often!
I go over the 7 core principles of the Cohesive Horsemanship philosophy, and the 4 basic movement that build everything we do with our horses. These 4 movements and 7 principles are what I go back to when I'm having trouble with any exercise or when I find something especially challenging. Usually, I find one of those 4 basics to not be at the level I need or I was not using one or more core principles.
Below the Basic videos you will find a few documents available for download. Including a progress tracking worksheet.
A discussion of the 7 Core Principles that build strong partnerships and create trust, confidence, and respect in our horsemanship.
RG Gus McCrae helps me demonstrate the 4 basic movements at the beginning stages.
Ridge and Preacher help me demonstrate the 4 Basics in Hand working on Advancing to Refining
Ridge and Preacher help me with the 4 basics mounted
7 Core Principles
4 Basic Movements
Tracking Progress Worksheet.
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