During PLAY your horse’s brain is SO FLEXIBLE that he can very quickly learn new, even interspecific, behaviours. This is so important and thus self-reinforcing for animals that the urge
So many times I see people training not their REAL HORSE, but the HORSE THEY HAVE IN MIND. Their real horse is not the horse that their mind produced and
– they make PERMANENT /Warren Buffett, quote from his letters to investors/ After almost 3-week Holiday break I got back to the stable, and only learn how much my horses
I was first introduced to riding accoding to the principles of French Classical riding in Legerete by Mr Fritz Stahlecker of HSH Methode. I simply loved the concept, and I
Here you can see very early beginning of piaffe at liberty trained with positive reinforcement. This is not finished behaviour..this is the behaviour we are still shaping, but I would love
The beauty of playing with, not training!, your horse is that everything comes out so easily. Like you don’t even care, without any pressure. Nothing needs to be “trained”, nothing
The True knowledge can be learnt only in action. Knowledge cleans everything from the ignorance and brings immediately visible change for the better. If we do not have these changes,
So many times I see people riding bridleless or bitless saying they don’t have to maintain a constant contact with the horse’s mouth. At the same time they pull cordeo
Don’t ever focus on the little things. If you skip the mental phase, and don’t reassure enough your horse about the real criteria of the exercise, you will always have