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[RC] Training horses, training humans... - Karen EverhartI have made my living the past few years doing exactly this: training people to be good, consistent, fair LEADERS for their horses. I have had some terrifying, exhilarating and satisfying experiences. I can take a horse and do most of the basic training and then, if needed, prepare them for a distance career. Then I can hand the horse back to an ill-prepared owner and watch things fall completely apart. I work from the basics of equine health management, feeding, pasture safety, tack selection, ground work, lunge line training, proper equitation (am a Centered Riding Instructor, too) and I teach my clients how to expect appropriate behavior and performance from their horse. In other words, a TOTAL package. Too many folk think that being able to get on a horse and hold on is enough. I disagree. For example, I expect a horse to STAND perfectly still when I or any of my clients mount. Let me tell you, if all I had to do was identify the horses that won't do that I could make a million bucks!! Who's fault is that???? The human!!! Some of the best "riders" never teach that or don't know how to train it. In my opinion it is a fundamental skill.I have numerous clients who have never owned horses and I have just as many who have been around/on horses most of their lives. They still need my help as they never learned the basics of developing respect from their horse AND having respect for their horse. I got my "initial" start as a professional from exposing myself to a wide variety of current (Parelli, Lyons, Smith, Anderson, Gwani, Whitney, Branaman, and my favorite Mark Rashid, etc.)and past (as in passed away -Ray Hunt, etc. ) popular trainers. I used a personal "sieve" to determine what I liked, what worked with my "style", what made sense. From those exposures I developed my own set of protocols. It changed the way I approached horses. I was trained by my granddad on the farm and he believed in the benefits of the 2x4 mentality. I know better now. Here is what I believe: There is FAR MORE to being a horse person than getting on and riding. Teaching people how to be horse persons - from the ground up - means they will be safer and have healthier, happier and more responsive horses.
Owner/Operator Horse Calls LLC Training, Centered Riding Lessons CTR and Endurance Conditioning and Training email: HorseCalls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.horsecalls.com 620-725-3402 316-648-5082 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristi Schaaf" <iluvdez@xxxxxxxxx> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:43 PM Subject: [RC] Training horses, training humans... Ray said: I think it is also significant that the clinicians no longer seem take HORSES in for training,which would require them to produce results.No,they are on mission now in the wider world to take in PEOPLE... _______________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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