The information presented in this article is well within the reach of everyone to achieve. All one needs is a little study, commitment, effort and time. It will be well worth it in the long run...
To ride a circle, which is different than just going around and around, is difficult but it can be done with diligent practice...
Many of these Conquistadors, as Cortés’s army was called, became wealthy men and established huge haciendas. They also brought with them to the New World, their traditions, equipment, different styles of riding, and ways of training horses which were gradually passed on to the native inhabitants who subsequently modified the horse equipment...These men became known as vaqueros...
These thoughts and observations are presented in no particular order and are offered so that readers can reflect upon them and form their own thoughts on the subject matter...
Have you ever been frustrated when trying to have a conversation with someone who did not speak the same language as you did or tried to converse with someone in their language using only a few words of that language that you learned a long time ago?
Riding is not supposed to be a ‘fighting’ activity between horse and rider, but many times it is or becomes one. Riding is supposed to be an activity of cooperation and tact, but, in most cases, it is not. It is well to remember that the horse is an independent, living, emotional, decision-making, caring being with species-specific behaviors and needs....
What we all are trying to make, I think and hope, is a more balanced, obedient, and willing horse and also to affect him psychologically to where he is more willing to take instruction and follow directions or, at least, be “willing to allow himself to be trained”...
In the movie The WIZARD of OZ, when instructed by the Fairy Princess.”… To follow the yellow brick road”, Dorothy asked “... but where do I begin?” The Fairy Princess replied: “It is always best when beginning to begin at the beginning.” And so it is with the education of the horse.
The FIRST thing you need, if the horse is to be your student, is: HIS ATTENTION (first, last, and always)...
OBSERVE, REFLECT, AND COMPARE, MAKE THE RIGHT THING EASY AND THE WRONG THINGS DIFFICULT...