Riding with Agreement "Resistance", "friction", "opposition", "contrast" - all words used to describe conflicting forces. When it comes to your relationship with your horse, these words often come up as well. So, I feel the best way to remedy their effects' is to establish where the source of … [Read more...]
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Imagery The Clear Mental Picture (CMP) has become my favorite topic of discussion for one reason. It is in fact, the one place that real improvement can exist. Mental imagery can and should be viewed as the most effective tool to the accomplishment of anything. Everything that exist was once a … [Read more...]
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Barrel racing Horsemanship The popularity of the sport of barrel racing is at an all-time high. The Horsemanship needed to be competitive in this field is also very high. I have noticed that the top hands in this arena are using techniques in their riding and in their thinking that are very … [Read more...]
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I often have people bring me Horses that they claim are perfect in every way except that they spook at almost everything when they ride them This seems to be very common to people who have had a bit of a time developing their own confidence when it comes to knowing what they should do or not do to … [Read more...]
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To find a definition of the word friend is not as simple as it might appear. Everyone’s personal perspective and opinion on just what a friend is could be very different. To some it is a word used to describe every person that they meet. Yet to most of us it has a much deeper meaning that we … [Read more...]
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Once you have decided what type of cow horse you want in your finished product and you have them soft in their face and guiding easily you are well on your way to having the horse of your dreams. A horse with a job that he likes to do is the result of deliberate and well laid plan followed with … [Read more...]
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Cow Horse Focus by Dennis Cappel “The making of a cow horse” Now that you have developed your clear mental picture of exactly what type of horse that you want to develop, let’s set the differences aside and focus on the common ground of all types of cow Horses. The one thing … [Read more...]
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Cow Horse Focus By Dennis Cappel Starting the Cow Horse… First, I believe that it is important for you to get a clear picture in your mind of what kind of a cow horse you want. The simple reason for this clear picture is that there are vast differences in what a horse … [Read more...]
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In my travels to develop my Horsemanship, I have noticed a common theme in what I call levels of understanding. The best hands I know place an extreme importance on being able to see what a horse is going to do before he actually does it. This is a skill that has to be developed, contrary to the … [Read more...]
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I know what it is like to be where you can’t see. I have been places with horses and on horses that I have ridden for a long time and heard people say how green they were. I couldn’t see how that could be. Now I realize that my level of awareness had not yet developed to the point to that I could … [Read more...]
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