When I am riding, I like to stay on the horse. Horses like to thrill us from time to time by moving in odd ways when we least expect it. Like bucking or shying or bolting or ..you fill in your experience. Lycra and loose jeans are real comfortable – and very slippery against the […]
If your horse walks you and not you walk the horse, if you have to back up when your horse gets near you, then you have not yet earned your horse’s respect. Your horse may love you and nicker when you are approaching. But, that your horse respects you is a whole different deal. Remember, […]
– Riding with a Soft Feel – (the Language of Lightness in the conversation between horse and rider) Cowboy Dressage is a powerful Western horsemanship training discipline whose goal is developing a sound, supple, responsive and happy horse ridden in self-carriage with a soft feel and nearly imperceptible cues. Any horse, doing any discipline, will […]
There are a lot of things a horse can do that are dangerous to the rider or handler. In the top ten, or even the top two, is a horse that will not yield to pressure: especially the pressure of the rider’s leg to mean move forward. Horses naturally move into pressure. So, we teach […]
I love taking the time to write to you all. My great wish is that you take the time to read and consider what I have to say. Eventually, you may come to recognize that good horsemanship is fundamentally what WE do with our horses; from the time we pick up the halter at the […]