3/17/11 Dan Thompson
Try
1. Sticking together game
a. Drive HQ until she comes all the way through
b. Don’t stop—keep moving
c. If need be drive front end to prevent stopping
2. Yo
a. Neutral and life down are not the same
b. Cueing her to maintain gait—maintain life up/neutral to keep going and life down to stop
3. Circle game with HQ yield
a. Not disengaging—I go with her and mirror to get her to step across
b. IMPortant is to keep going—not a disengagement—stay engaged
Riding
1. Wheelbarrow turn: purpose is engagement
a. Turn from HQ not front end
b. No reins except for safety
c. Use leg and if necessary stick with it
d. Program for awhile especially right side
e. Progress this by being able to go from 2-3 steps to maintaining it on the circle
f. Progress also use it to stop this is exaggeration
g. Leading up to powering up good banana
h. Reaching down with foot to stretch thru topline rather than fluid rein
i. Fluid rein chin/nose uncomfortable forehead simulation
j. Stretching neck doesn’t necessarily equate to stretching top line.
2. Backup
a. No reins except to counter sidepass or forward motion
b. Hunker down
c. Move 1HQ step then otherside –use leg behind the girth
d. Keep at it until Try backs then stop
e. Step not just rock
Spiderman
OnLine/Liberty
1. Catching game—liberty stick to me
2. Friendly game: expand be creative, all 5 zones, ball etc Improved since last time.
3. Driving FQ 360: wow I was surprised at this—whole new level of understanding of the game
a. If he escapes back just keep going—want him to plant/turn on back leg (turn on haunches)
b. Escape forward –do back and over
c. Impulsion and respect issues here
d. Be sure to CHECK him into the game—up the E/til he pays attention/not just sorta going thru the motions
4. Yo: same as Try start adding in the idea that it is his responsibility to maintain gait
5. Circling: check out does phase 1 work for send and transitions
a. Needs to stay at a gait until he relaxes, give it time
b. Winning is rhythm, relaxation and contact
6. Sideways: z5 following and occasional move z4 while keeping z1 going
a. Keep going until relaxed and get few good steps w/o his head coming back toward me
7. Riding
a. Comb to bend
b. Comb to bend and hold (vary the time to progress)
c. Comb to bend, hold and disengage HQ
d. Walk and do above, trot, canter
Friday, March 18, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
February 17, 2011: Dan Thompson
February 17, 2011: Dan Thompson 3 hours
1. All about phases: this is complicated and depends on many things.
2. Spiderman: a. Is the way you start different when you are no longer level 1 yourself? Started with extreme friendly and put back to fence and really slapped the group but stayed relaxed and neutral in my body (friendly) and stopped when he stopped. Sang to keep myself relaxed. Needed to focus on Spiderman not Dan to look for when to stop. Spiderman got it pretty quickly.
b. Did tombe pas de bourre glissade hug Spiderman with really relaxed body and he stood there but if I had tension in my body he really felt it.
c. Yoyo backing and understanding phases With Spiderman he had moved from learning to controlling phase and I did not realize it. I was going slow, not expecting much. Quickly thru phases 2 and 3 to phase 4 and then give him time to process. Blind man. Do close and then farther away. Teach him to find my focus.
d. Circling was great we already have a nice send and bring back. The allow: go thru phases if he breaks to a walk—phase 3 sideways swing of rope, phase 4 get off the pedestal and tag him. This is a fun Jim Carrey game.
e. No knowledge of sideways—we discussed but did not do. The plan will be to accept ugly—not careful and pretty let him move and figure it out—life up, life down when there is a good step or two and stop time to process it.
3. Try On Line
a. I explained my filming to see my use of focus and intention and saw no impulsion, then tried to find an effective phase 4 and that did not work. So I asked will Try ever have more impulsion?
b. So remedy is not phase 4 but the warmup. Warmup strong. Did extreme friendly for the purpose of bringing up her life and energy rather than go slow with her as a warmup. Remember if its friendly I am relaxed in my body.
c. Then we used the circling game to teach Try to handle her emotion (relax) when her life comes up as that worries her. So send and falling leaf and then follow her (matching her energy) as she chooses relaxation as the good deal.
4. Try: riding
a. Speed: Will she ever have more energy or is it boredom. Again this is an opportunity to warmup strong, swing carrot stick along her body to bring up life. We worked on her emotional fitness in the backup. Note I felt safe with the increased energy in the backup
b. Wendy’s/Cottonwood)—yes I could have used the circling game to better advantage, matching her energy and giving her the chance to learn to deal with her emotion.
c. Carrot stick riding is a big priority as I can see that I have caused problems with over using reins i.e. swing the shoulders, backup, sideways, turns on the forehand and the haunches, falling leaf etc.
d. The reason for the backup was a broken yoyo game. Homework for March is a snappy backup. Try not to use rein. My seat!! And Carrot stick over my head.
e. Canter yoyos great for HQ engagement, uses speedy backup—does it improve the gait?
f. Also did sideways using the free leg for extra control.
5. Parelli in eastern NC and Craven County: Dan suggested a trail riding clinic!
1. All about phases: this is complicated and depends on many things.
2. Spiderman: a. Is the way you start different when you are no longer level 1 yourself? Started with extreme friendly and put back to fence and really slapped the group but stayed relaxed and neutral in my body (friendly) and stopped when he stopped. Sang to keep myself relaxed. Needed to focus on Spiderman not Dan to look for when to stop. Spiderman got it pretty quickly.
b. Did tombe pas de bourre glissade hug Spiderman with really relaxed body and he stood there but if I had tension in my body he really felt it.
c. Yoyo backing and understanding phases With Spiderman he had moved from learning to controlling phase and I did not realize it. I was going slow, not expecting much. Quickly thru phases 2 and 3 to phase 4 and then give him time to process. Blind man. Do close and then farther away. Teach him to find my focus.
d. Circling was great we already have a nice send and bring back. The allow: go thru phases if he breaks to a walk—phase 3 sideways swing of rope, phase 4 get off the pedestal and tag him. This is a fun Jim Carrey game.
e. No knowledge of sideways—we discussed but did not do. The plan will be to accept ugly—not careful and pretty let him move and figure it out—life up, life down when there is a good step or two and stop time to process it.
3. Try On Line
a. I explained my filming to see my use of focus and intention and saw no impulsion, then tried to find an effective phase 4 and that did not work. So I asked will Try ever have more impulsion?
b. So remedy is not phase 4 but the warmup. Warmup strong. Did extreme friendly for the purpose of bringing up her life and energy rather than go slow with her as a warmup. Remember if its friendly I am relaxed in my body.
c. Then we used the circling game to teach Try to handle her emotion (relax) when her life comes up as that worries her. So send and falling leaf and then follow her (matching her energy) as she chooses relaxation as the good deal.
4. Try: riding
a. Speed: Will she ever have more energy or is it boredom. Again this is an opportunity to warmup strong, swing carrot stick along her body to bring up life. We worked on her emotional fitness in the backup. Note I felt safe with the increased energy in the backup
b. Wendy’s/Cottonwood)—yes I could have used the circling game to better advantage, matching her energy and giving her the chance to learn to deal with her emotion.
c. Carrot stick riding is a big priority as I can see that I have caused problems with over using reins i.e. swing the shoulders, backup, sideways, turns on the forehand and the haunches, falling leaf etc.
d. The reason for the backup was a broken yoyo game. Homework for March is a snappy backup. Try not to use rein. My seat!! And Carrot stick over my head.
e. Canter yoyos great for HQ engagement, uses speedy backup—does it improve the gait?
f. Also did sideways using the free leg for extra control.
5. Parelli in eastern NC and Craven County: Dan suggested a trail riding clinic!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Dan Thompson January 9, 2011
The weather was in the teens so I opted to do the 3 hours inside. Discussion of the big picture, planning, Riley, and some specifics and simulations.
Syncing not just movement but our energy in the sticking together game—i.e. I choose energy level and see if Try will match it and vice versa.
I had some questions about where I am going as L3 grad considering L4 and also mentioned the boredom issue for LBI Try and LBE me. Dan comments that levels are never ending but a way of recognizing accomplishment along the way to provide motivation. Basically he said level 3 is about putting what I know to purpose and that will prevent boredom.
Purpose/conditioning for Try
1. Purpose: playing together—Try doesn’t feel I am playing at her
2. Playing with psychology
3. Dressage maybe
4. Cows
5. Drill team maybe
6. Handling another horse while riding Try
7. Choreography
8. Riding with another horse and rider
9. Obstacles on the trail at a trot and canter
10. ??Make riding in the field interesting
11. Vary the HQ stuff from day to day!!
12. 2 people and horses passenger and stick together
13. Lots of transitions speed/gait through the woods
14. Cavalettis, hill therapy, putting patterns to a purpose
15. Finding better posture and “holding” it—holdover in healthy posture beyond the session.
16. Million transitions: Walter Zettl
17. Trail—canter ½ mile but add in ½ pass or ??whatever to add mental challenge
18. Pulling something heavy enough to be physical for Try i.e. cavaletti pole
Whatever it is—it won’t be fun if it gets drilled!!!
We talked about the subject of physical development for Try. I don’t feel the need for her to be conditioned as a top athlete but rather good physicality and biometrics to assist her as she ages. This includes increasing use of hind quarters and engaging top line and abdominals. This seems the least I can do for the health of my lovely horse. BUT Dan hit the nail on the head with how do I achieve fitness without the drilling that brings forth a bad attitude—classic LBI issue. I realized that I have been dealing with this issue for ages. All those laps in the ring at trot and canter are healthy physically but not mentally and emotionally. I have tried varying by doing the “work” in patterns, passenger lessons etc. Dan’s suggestions were out of the ring.
Another issue—I would like to be a really good rider:
1. Dan says this is another never ending quest
2. Obviously time in the saddle, study ie Walter Zettl
3. Versatility—cross disciplines, like cross training ??dressage
4. Ride other horses that are good at their disciplines to see how it should feel
5. Kelly eventing, Dan—future help to add in to what I am doing
6. Go ride one of Wendy’s cow horses.
7. Ride physically different horses, ride any other horses available??
8. Is the dressage saddle preventing my sitting the canter?
9. Pilates warmup—21 days makes a habit
10. Can’t ask horse to engage if we are tight/tense or a slob.
Parelli and Tasking: Pat organizes thoughts around tasks, Linda feels it is more valuable to figure it out yourself—at the center instructors wait for questions from the students. Important to ASK. Balance of gaining information from other sources, and puzzling it out on my own.
EARN the right to be a good leader by being a good follower: Ultimate passenger game there is no agenda even if that means sitting at the gate for as long as it takes. Dan clinic ½ hr one day, 5 minutes the next. And huge difference in the horse. This would be good to do in the field every day for a week—Dan did this and felt for the first time his horses’ thoughts and subtleties. Can I with a trot or canter passenger, close my eyes and be with her on downward transitions and turns. Kinesthetic takes away the visual if close eyes can feel what the horse is doing. If there is NO agenda (not saying I hope Try doesn’t go to the gate) then I am open to sensing more.
Email Ruby etc re session with Dan on play day fun.
Hunt for my focus game: fun, Try is finding the good deal. Put it to purpose.
Simulations: Cueing each other with focus/body language/intention alone!!!
Want to get so confidence and respect are not issues/opposition reflex—want to be entirely out of the negative.
Riley
1. Most important is to find the starting place of what Riley will accept or tolerate not necessarily love
2. Building confidence
3. Head down for haltering—rest arm on his poll/neck and allow my natural weight to slowly take head down—very friendly game
4. Want him to understand that this is not a bad deal
5. Driving FQ: 3 stooges, close annoying, quit in 1.5 minutes or so
6. Vet check: start close and very gradually build from walk to trot: brace just wait and let him find the good deal.
Syncing not just movement but our energy in the sticking together game—i.e. I choose energy level and see if Try will match it and vice versa.
I had some questions about where I am going as L3 grad considering L4 and also mentioned the boredom issue for LBI Try and LBE me. Dan comments that levels are never ending but a way of recognizing accomplishment along the way to provide motivation. Basically he said level 3 is about putting what I know to purpose and that will prevent boredom.
Purpose/conditioning for Try
1. Purpose: playing together—Try doesn’t feel I am playing at her
2. Playing with psychology
3. Dressage maybe
4. Cows
5. Drill team maybe
6. Handling another horse while riding Try
7. Choreography
8. Riding with another horse and rider
9. Obstacles on the trail at a trot and canter
10. ??Make riding in the field interesting
11. Vary the HQ stuff from day to day!!
12. 2 people and horses passenger and stick together
13. Lots of transitions speed/gait through the woods
14. Cavalettis, hill therapy, putting patterns to a purpose
15. Finding better posture and “holding” it—holdover in healthy posture beyond the session.
16. Million transitions: Walter Zettl
17. Trail—canter ½ mile but add in ½ pass or ??whatever to add mental challenge
18. Pulling something heavy enough to be physical for Try i.e. cavaletti pole
Whatever it is—it won’t be fun if it gets drilled!!!
We talked about the subject of physical development for Try. I don’t feel the need for her to be conditioned as a top athlete but rather good physicality and biometrics to assist her as she ages. This includes increasing use of hind quarters and engaging top line and abdominals. This seems the least I can do for the health of my lovely horse. BUT Dan hit the nail on the head with how do I achieve fitness without the drilling that brings forth a bad attitude—classic LBI issue. I realized that I have been dealing with this issue for ages. All those laps in the ring at trot and canter are healthy physically but not mentally and emotionally. I have tried varying by doing the “work” in patterns, passenger lessons etc. Dan’s suggestions were out of the ring.
Another issue—I would like to be a really good rider:
1. Dan says this is another never ending quest
2. Obviously time in the saddle, study ie Walter Zettl
3. Versatility—cross disciplines, like cross training ??dressage
4. Ride other horses that are good at their disciplines to see how it should feel
5. Kelly eventing, Dan—future help to add in to what I am doing
6. Go ride one of Wendy’s cow horses.
7. Ride physically different horses, ride any other horses available??
8. Is the dressage saddle preventing my sitting the canter?
9. Pilates warmup—21 days makes a habit
10. Can’t ask horse to engage if we are tight/tense or a slob.
Parelli and Tasking: Pat organizes thoughts around tasks, Linda feels it is more valuable to figure it out yourself—at the center instructors wait for questions from the students. Important to ASK. Balance of gaining information from other sources, and puzzling it out on my own.
EARN the right to be a good leader by being a good follower: Ultimate passenger game there is no agenda even if that means sitting at the gate for as long as it takes. Dan clinic ½ hr one day, 5 minutes the next. And huge difference in the horse. This would be good to do in the field every day for a week—Dan did this and felt for the first time his horses’ thoughts and subtleties. Can I with a trot or canter passenger, close my eyes and be with her on downward transitions and turns. Kinesthetic takes away the visual if close eyes can feel what the horse is doing. If there is NO agenda (not saying I hope Try doesn’t go to the gate) then I am open to sensing more.
Email Ruby etc re session with Dan on play day fun.
Hunt for my focus game: fun, Try is finding the good deal. Put it to purpose.
Simulations: Cueing each other with focus/body language/intention alone!!!
Want to get so confidence and respect are not issues/opposition reflex—want to be entirely out of the negative.
Riley
1. Most important is to find the starting place of what Riley will accept or tolerate not necessarily love
2. Building confidence
3. Head down for haltering—rest arm on his poll/neck and allow my natural weight to slowly take head down—very friendly game
4. Want him to understand that this is not a bad deal
5. Driving FQ: 3 stooges, close annoying, quit in 1.5 minutes or so
6. Vet check: start close and very gradually build from walk to trot: brace just wait and let him find the good deal.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Dan Thompson December 23, 2010
Dan Thompson Day 1 December
Fun day today.
After catching up on goings on since the last visit ie BA going amature and Ocala trip, On Line in the new paddock. As a warmup--something slow and fun for Try i.e.knocking cone off a barrel--it is in Try's horsenality to like to push things around LOL. then Dan suggested sidepassing to the barrel and knocking it over or backing to a barrel and rolling it.
Then the main course: teaching Try to hunt my focus--to line up with my focus--focus not on her but on what I want to accomplish i.e. focus on tree to ask her to line up to back (preparation to preparation??) Trick is to use the right amount of energy/phase etc to ask without losing my focus then reward. Try was starting to get it--will take some time. Nice part is that I can start with L1 assessment sheet and we can work our way forward with variety built in and a clear path for me mentally.
Sideways: follow the focus--focusing over the withers--this one was easier both directions than backing.
Circling--more like following my intention: don't change gait or direction AND I choose the distance. Try had no trouble with increasing the distance as I let out rope and to decrease--I walk with her focusing in the direction as I reel in the rope. Note: we tried 6' distance--Dan says this is L4 and the hardest.
Then went to Kathy's and watched Dan help her with strategies for winning 7 games with an RBE and a great trailer loading session. Mostly I was impressed with life up and life down.
Watched part of Mary's lesson with Jake then Aimee with Sparkles--I appreciate the opportunity to watch.
Then 3:30-5 ish Try--mostly freestyle then a spot of figuring out when Try takes contact.
Warmup: We walked for Try to blow and it took longer than usual--
no doubt Try feeling/mirroring my not being as relaxed as usual--though it was a fun, joyous 2 days--still not as relaxed as when its just Try and I. Reminds me of dance rehearsal vs performance--the latter never being as free and glorious as the former as there is the knowledge of the audience.
Anyway, we broke up the walk with turns by my turning my whole body to look at Try's HQ. Then went to the trot and broke that up mentally for Try (to get her connection with me) by varying the speed of the trot from jog to medium to fast trot. (hmm ask BA about extended trot rather than fast).
Then falling leaf variation to lighten the shoulders etc:
1. walk then ask for HQ disengagement with my full body, lift rein hand elbow straight if necessary to keep Try's front end in place (turn on the forehand) and stick in opposite hand across our bodies to HQ as well.
2. After turning swing shoulders in same direction while wt is still back by using opposite rein/leading rein/?leg and if need be stick--holding downward to urge front end.
3. walk off in new direction with leading rein.
Practice bits til they become natural and join together into a dance.
Weave variations walk and trot swinging shoulders thru--so sidepass thru then proceed on a straight line.
Contact: Played with it at a stand still. We wait until Try takes the contact from me i.e. stretched down and then we walk off. Reins mean go.
Merlin/bullfighting
Linda Success Series lead change ladder.
Wonderful two days--glad I did not reschedule to January even though it was really cold both days. By watching other sessions it felt more like a clinic than private sessions only. Also interesting to consider would be the 6 day clinic in Hartsville SC.
Fun day today.
After catching up on goings on since the last visit ie BA going amature and Ocala trip, On Line in the new paddock. As a warmup--something slow and fun for Try i.e.knocking cone off a barrel--it is in Try's horsenality to like to push things around LOL. then Dan suggested sidepassing to the barrel and knocking it over or backing to a barrel and rolling it.
Then the main course: teaching Try to hunt my focus--to line up with my focus--focus not on her but on what I want to accomplish i.e. focus on tree to ask her to line up to back (preparation to preparation??) Trick is to use the right amount of energy/phase etc to ask without losing my focus then reward. Try was starting to get it--will take some time. Nice part is that I can start with L1 assessment sheet and we can work our way forward with variety built in and a clear path for me mentally.
Sideways: follow the focus--focusing over the withers--this one was easier both directions than backing.
Circling--more like following my intention: don't change gait or direction AND I choose the distance. Try had no trouble with increasing the distance as I let out rope and to decrease--I walk with her focusing in the direction as I reel in the rope. Note: we tried 6' distance--Dan says this is L4 and the hardest.
Then went to Kathy's and watched Dan help her with strategies for winning 7 games with an RBE and a great trailer loading session. Mostly I was impressed with life up and life down.
Watched part of Mary's lesson with Jake then Aimee with Sparkles--I appreciate the opportunity to watch.
Then 3:30-5 ish Try--mostly freestyle then a spot of figuring out when Try takes contact.
Warmup: We walked for Try to blow and it took longer than usual--
no doubt Try feeling/mirroring my not being as relaxed as usual--though it was a fun, joyous 2 days--still not as relaxed as when its just Try and I. Reminds me of dance rehearsal vs performance--the latter never being as free and glorious as the former as there is the knowledge of the audience.
Anyway, we broke up the walk with turns by my turning my whole body to look at Try's HQ. Then went to the trot and broke that up mentally for Try (to get her connection with me) by varying the speed of the trot from jog to medium to fast trot. (hmm ask BA about extended trot rather than fast).
Then falling leaf variation to lighten the shoulders etc:
1. walk then ask for HQ disengagement with my full body, lift rein hand elbow straight if necessary to keep Try's front end in place (turn on the forehand) and stick in opposite hand across our bodies to HQ as well.
2. After turning swing shoulders in same direction while wt is still back by using opposite rein/leading rein/?leg and if need be stick--holding downward to urge front end.
3. walk off in new direction with leading rein.
Practice bits til they become natural and join together into a dance.
Weave variations walk and trot swinging shoulders thru--so sidepass thru then proceed on a straight line.
Contact: Played with it at a stand still. We wait until Try takes the contact from me i.e. stretched down and then we walk off. Reins mean go.
Merlin/bullfighting
Linda Success Series lead change ladder.
Wonderful two days--glad I did not reschedule to January even though it was really cold both days. By watching other sessions it felt more like a clinic than private sessions only. Also interesting to consider would be the 6 day clinic in Hartsville SC.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Game of Contact summary to get started with Try
The Game of Contact
FEEL SLOW HANDS
1. Reins mean go:
a. Driving seat steady feel
b. Practice on a barrel
2. Displaced behaviors: complete release when horse starts to make a change
a. Behind the bit—low head
i. Maintain contact
ii. Suspension or two reins
iii. Wait for Try
iv. Bring up like Cobie
b. High head—higher reins two or suspension
c. Sideways—following reins—reverse psychology
3. Walk without reaction to the bit
a. Match the intensity—more provocative if necessary
b. Shorter reins to maintain contact without noise
c. Trot when horse steps into the feel of the bit when you take contact
4. Trot
a. Bicep/tricep
b. Use of my body
c. Few strides and come to walk to release
d. Come to walk by setting horse on its hind end (stand horse on his tail—seat/suspension rein)
e. 2-3 successes then stop for the day
FEEL SLOW HANDS
1. Reins mean go:
a. Driving seat steady feel
b. Practice on a barrel
2. Displaced behaviors: complete release when horse starts to make a change
a. Behind the bit—low head
i. Maintain contact
ii. Suspension or two reins
iii. Wait for Try
iv. Bring up like Cobie
b. High head—higher reins two or suspension
c. Sideways—following reins—reverse psychology
3. Walk without reaction to the bit
a. Match the intensity—more provocative if necessary
b. Shorter reins to maintain contact without noise
c. Trot when horse steps into the feel of the bit when you take contact
4. Trot
a. Bicep/tricep
b. Use of my body
c. Few strides and come to walk to release
d. Come to walk by setting horse on its hind end (stand horse on his tail—seat/suspension rein)
e. 2-3 successes then stop for the day
day 2 Game of Contact course
Day 2 Linda Game of Contact
This is not fully edited
Morning session Question and Answer
1. Take the time is takes and expect the first session may be painfully long
Reins mean go
2. Teaching: reins means go—that is the first step
3. Don’t use leg for turn, about release, turn upper body as a unit, quick with release/open door
4. The moment the horse starts to turn, there is the door--quick response. Back foot is what moves??release depends--maybe a yes just to get movement
5. Reins mean go or do they mean keep going?
6.
Nose Neck
7. Bobbing head, not a habit: in early stages horse doesn’t know the puzzle yet.
8. Don’t release at the trot—come to the walk to release.
9. AMAZING when it’s the horses idea to do it
10. Behind and above the bit simulations
11. Pulling low and open mouth?
12. Suspension rein—reins not too long so horse finds contact down low.
13. Horse needs to experiment
14. Training = pressure and the timing of release, When and how to take up pressure and when and how to release. Can even release on the thought or emotion
15. Want horse to not be threatened or shut down
16. High level of refinement
17. Learning proves
18. Falls apart because I’m not playing the GAME
19. Learning to become excellent trainer
20. Trotting and holding—triceps think about standing horse on his tail ie. Rear to transition from trot downward, Raises front end and transitions then on the HQ. Suspension rein if needed
21. Bit cradle or confidence snaffle, thicker bit good for horse who lacks confident. Thin single jointed snaffle apt to pinch roof of horse’s mouth
22. Aw shit versus lets dance. Picking up reins. Film Try and I so I can see what is happening
23. Horse feels noise/cluttered communication, horses brace themselves, tune you out or get upset
24. Bad hands—horse won’t seek contact—its not about the bit
25. Later focus on being a better rider
26. Head tossing, release at first, nose to get idea of the open door, release as 1st step complete release—later micro release
27. Learning at the walk. Behind the bit—timing of release—hit the wall and immediately release. Was that it? I don’t know=-then release anyway.
28. Baggage—just takes more time
29. Prerequisite: horse has bit in his mouth. Rider skill
30. Very beginning pick up the contact and release to develop trust
31. Easy transition from HQ is goal
32. 3 pieces nose neck feet
33. Horses have troubles with bits because of misuse by humans
34. Going to be hard, not quick or perfect. Again video/carol coaching later? Linda says take the time go slow on many levels before seeking more help
35. Go home and work on yourself every day
36. Soft slow solid
37. Picking up a lead rope--feeling for horse.
38. West point bridling himself—Linda teaches with a cookie
39. The More I learn the Smarter My Horse Gets
40. No legs reins means go—I’m nothing but a butt
41. Later can use legs--need to isolate in the beginning
Group 1 ride
42. Emma: goal is stretching the neck to the ground and in so doing lift the back. This horse is a bad banana now. Physically not been using the right muscles. Baggage of a lifetime of bad banana. Ride correctly horses start to do it.
43. Stacy: suspension rein doesn’t trap their forward movement. Horse who flips head or is high headed
44. Suzanna stuck in the corner. Keep contact elastic when horse stretches. Lift step 1, run hand down to neck step two--almost took a step
45. Note: stretching down and rounding up versus lowering head to avoid the bit
46. Nancy: goal is feet—stretch and focus where you would like him to go
47. Take power at the trot—good idea to post
48. Incremental pressure until horse changes this is NOT phases. Contact requires precision and trust very different from phases
49. Release with the triceps versus letting go to the buckle—knowing when to use which
50. Suzanne want complete drop when he stretches
51. Stacy walk good head and nose then give completely to the buckle throw the door wide open to get trust. Complete release in the beginning to gain trust especially when there is baggage
52. If horse is having trouble then the bigger the release the better. Complete release not a triceps release
53. Watch mastery dvd on backing when available
54. Busy hands—think action comes from the elbows--=Linda will lift reins in whatever manner necessary to avoid creeping up and down the reins
55. Elbows slower more dependable feel
56. LB horses super fast learners and we are usually way too slow for them. We want to give them no opportunity to think of anything but where is the release
57. Stacy: incrementally increase the pressure slowly and firmly—fluffy doesn’t get it
58. Get his neck on the ground in the stretch—his back will come up versus avoiding the bit
59. Once you get steps 1-3 at the walk go on to the trot: don’t do too much at the walk. Walk is to learn/practice at the trot. Don’t hold at the walk—get the contact and release completely. Triceps at the trot.
60. When you are ready for the trot then you are ready for the bicep to triceps release. Take until he takes and then in a couple of strides downward transition to the walk
61. Feel that surge of energy.
62. Nancy: bicep . check. Scare horse if he doesn’t trust that the door is open. Go to tricep—pull armpits down and Michael Jackson. Behind the bit--nose coming up so walk and release completely
63. Suzanne: slowly take up the reins
64. If your horse is not motivated to do something NOW add more pressure in a SLOW focused way.
65. What about the fluid rein to stretch?? My question
66. Nancy when he goes behind the bit it prevents the top line from coming up
67. Emma: you want when you pick up the reins that he immediately goes into the bit.
68. Pick one of the three and be clear in asking
69. Pick up reins really slowly
70. Suzanna slow bicep/tricep RBE loses confidence quickly, quit when something + happens
71. When nose and mouth get quiet pretty soon ears will get good also
72. RB horse more in and out LB respect issues
73. Slow--gives horse time to feel and not brace
74. Holding contact at the walk leave that until much later.
75. Stretch at the walk few strides and pick up the trot
Question and answer
76. “soft feel” can be confusing can be soft and light and have no connection with you
77. Young horse: Linda would teach him to feel for her and then go to casual rein—that is for horse without baggage
78. Remember it is not going to be perfect. Horse know if you have good intentions
79. Soft feel not good if puts horse behind the bit
After the simulation
80. Trying to keep a smile on the horse’s face as you take contact by slow good feel
81. Remember Cobie’s feel coming up from the stretch down
82. Technique is nothing compared to feel—when your horse will want to do it
83. Horses seek human with the best energy
84. Simulation of reins in the mouth—pressure if it were Linda’s mouth—horse’s mouth just as important
85. Match horse but don’t block him
86. Curb bits isolate the neck not direct contact so more gentle than snaffle in a way
87. Play in disciplines not best suited to your horse’s conformation for the mental refreshment
88. Remmer best at jumping picnic tables bareback and bridles and liberty
89. Lauren learned from simulations than lifting rein above the horse’s head will motivate the horse to lower head
90. Stand him on his tail to go to walk
Day three notes
1. Shouldn’t have to relase to get the energy back—losing energy when get contact
2. Day 3-4 hardest lose the sense that it is a game
3. Horses also day 3-4 get cocky and relax as they get confident. Just need to be a bit more insistant.
4. Reins don’t mean go anymore
5. Consistency
6. Use improve rather than holes and fixing terminology more positive
7. Online with Ovation circling game. Snappy departure
8. Catch me game with Ovation ONE HOUR
9. Pepper in the contact game with trail ride other releases
10. Reins too long
11. Note Lauren and Suzanna only ones who got the power—others a soft connected trot
12. Quit when it feels good then start again to keep the horse in a learning frame of mind
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Morning session Question and Answer
1. Take the time is takes and expect the first session may be painfully long
Reins mean go
2. Teaching: reins means go—that is the first step
3. Don’t use leg for turn, about release, turn upper body as a unit, quick with release/open door
4. The moment the horse starts to turn, there is the door--quick response. Back foot is what moves??release depends--maybe a yes just to get movement
5. Reins mean go or do they mean keep going?
6.
Nose Neck
7. Bobbing head, not a habit: in early stages horse doesn’t know the puzzle yet.
8. Don’t release at the trot—come to the walk to release.
9. AMAZING when it’s the horses idea to do it
10. Behind and above the bit simulations
11. Pulling low and open mouth?
12. Suspension rein—reins not too long so horse finds contact down low.
13. Horse needs to experiment
14. Training = pressure and the timing of release, When and how to take up pressure and when and how to release. Can even release on the thought or emotion
15. Want horse to not be threatened or shut down
16. High level of refinement
17. Learning proves
18. Falls apart because I’m not playing the GAME
19. Learning to become excellent trainer
20. Trotting and holding—triceps think about standing horse on his tail ie. Rear to transition from trot downward, Raises front end and transitions then on the HQ. Suspension rein if needed
21. Bit cradle or confidence snaffle, thicker bit good for horse who lacks confident. Thin single jointed snaffle apt to pinch roof of horse’s mouth
22. Aw shit versus lets dance. Picking up reins. Film Try and I so I can see what is happening
23. Horse feels noise/cluttered communication, horses brace themselves, tune you out or get upset
24. Bad hands—horse won’t seek contact—its not about the bit
25. Later focus on being a better rider
26. Head tossing, release at first, nose to get idea of the open door, release as 1st step complete release—later micro release
27. Learning at the walk. Behind the bit—timing of release—hit the wall and immediately release. Was that it? I don’t know=-then release anyway.
28. Baggage—just takes more time
29. Prerequisite: horse has bit in his mouth. Rider skill
30. Very beginning pick up the contact and release to develop trust
31. Easy transition from HQ is goal
32. 3 pieces nose neck feet
33. Horses have troubles with bits because of misuse by humans
34. Going to be hard, not quick or perfect. Again video/carol coaching later? Linda says take the time go slow on many levels before seeking more help
35. Go home and work on yourself every day
36. Soft slow solid
37. Picking up a lead rope--feeling for horse.
38. West point bridling himself—Linda teaches with a cookie
39. The More I learn the Smarter My Horse Gets
40. No legs reins means go—I’m nothing but a butt
41. Later can use legs--need to isolate in the beginning
Group 1 ride
42. Emma: goal is stretching the neck to the ground and in so doing lift the back. This horse is a bad banana now. Physically not been using the right muscles. Baggage of a lifetime of bad banana. Ride correctly horses start to do it.
43. Stacy: suspension rein doesn’t trap their forward movement. Horse who flips head or is high headed
44. Suzanna stuck in the corner. Keep contact elastic when horse stretches. Lift step 1, run hand down to neck step two--almost took a step
45. Note: stretching down and rounding up versus lowering head to avoid the bit
46. Nancy: goal is feet—stretch and focus where you would like him to go
47. Take power at the trot—good idea to post
48. Incremental pressure until horse changes this is NOT phases. Contact requires precision and trust very different from phases
49. Release with the triceps versus letting go to the buckle—knowing when to use which
50. Suzanne want complete drop when he stretches
51. Stacy walk good head and nose then give completely to the buckle throw the door wide open to get trust. Complete release in the beginning to gain trust especially when there is baggage
52. If horse is having trouble then the bigger the release the better. Complete release not a triceps release
53. Watch mastery dvd on backing when available
54. Busy hands—think action comes from the elbows--=Linda will lift reins in whatever manner necessary to avoid creeping up and down the reins
55. Elbows slower more dependable feel
56. LB horses super fast learners and we are usually way too slow for them. We want to give them no opportunity to think of anything but where is the release
57. Stacy: incrementally increase the pressure slowly and firmly—fluffy doesn’t get it
58. Get his neck on the ground in the stretch—his back will come up versus avoiding the bit
59. Once you get steps 1-3 at the walk go on to the trot: don’t do too much at the walk. Walk is to learn/practice at the trot. Don’t hold at the walk—get the contact and release completely. Triceps at the trot.
60. When you are ready for the trot then you are ready for the bicep to triceps release. Take until he takes and then in a couple of strides downward transition to the walk
61. Feel that surge of energy.
62. Nancy: bicep . check. Scare horse if he doesn’t trust that the door is open. Go to tricep—pull armpits down and Michael Jackson. Behind the bit--nose coming up so walk and release completely
63. Suzanne: slowly take up the reins
64. If your horse is not motivated to do something NOW add more pressure in a SLOW focused way.
65. What about the fluid rein to stretch?? My question
66. Nancy when he goes behind the bit it prevents the top line from coming up
67. Emma: you want when you pick up the reins that he immediately goes into the bit.
68. Pick one of the three and be clear in asking
69. Pick up reins really slowly
70. Suzanna slow bicep/tricep RBE loses confidence quickly, quit when something + happens
71. When nose and mouth get quiet pretty soon ears will get good also
72. RB horse more in and out LB respect issues
73. Slow--gives horse time to feel and not brace
74. Holding contact at the walk leave that until much later.
75. Stretch at the walk few strides and pick up the trot
Question and answer
76. “soft feel” can be confusing can be soft and light and have no connection with you
77. Young horse: Linda would teach him to feel for her and then go to casual rein—that is for horse without baggage
78. Remember it is not going to be perfect. Horse know if you have good intentions
79. Soft feel not good if puts horse behind the bit
After the simulation
80. Trying to keep a smile on the horse’s face as you take contact by slow good feel
81. Remember Cobie’s feel coming up from the stretch down
82. Technique is nothing compared to feel—when your horse will want to do it
83. Horses seek human with the best energy
84. Simulation of reins in the mouth—pressure if it were Linda’s mouth—horse’s mouth just as important
85. Match horse but don’t block him
86. Curb bits isolate the neck not direct contact so more gentle than snaffle in a way
87. Play in disciplines not best suited to your horse’s conformation for the mental refreshment
88. Remmer best at jumping picnic tables bareback and bridles and liberty
89. Lauren learned from simulations than lifting rein above the horse’s head will motivate the horse to lower head
90. Stand him on his tail to go to walk
Day three notes
1. Shouldn’t have to relase to get the energy back—losing energy when get contact
2. Day 3-4 hardest lose the sense that it is a game
3. Horses also day 3-4 get cocky and relax as they get confident. Just need to be a bit more insistant.
4. Reins don’t mean go anymore
5. Consistency
6. Use improve rather than holes and fixing terminology more positive
7. Online with Ovation circling game. Snappy departure
8. Catch me game with Ovation ONE HOUR
9. Pepper in the contact game with trail ride other releases
10. Reins too long
11. Note Lauren and Suzanna only ones who got the power—others a soft connected trot
12. Quit when it feels good then start again to keep the horse in a learning frame of mind
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Day 1 Game of Contact
am Session in the class room--handout notes to be available.
Simulations from Day 1
1. holding hands
2. bicep/tricep take and give contact
3. savvy string - same
4. savvy string around the waist/or on the barrel- add in turn and release as reins/contact means go
5. savvy string in the mouth: biceps is NOT pleasant
Triceps feel so solid and connected and good. Biceps especially if bouncing in the mouth do NOT feel good.
1. Walk and take contact: reins mean go i.e. keep walking without a reaction to the bit or stopping.
2. If taking contact stops the horses forward motion or horse backs--then turn horse and release on the first step.
3. Reactions to the bit: follow the movement i.e. sideways or head going up or down (behind or infront of bit) to avoid the bit. You want to turn sideways let me help you. Following not pulling until they get tired of it.
a. head up two reins lift or one suspension rein.
b. head stretching down to avoid the bit: take feel with biceps and mmaintain contact until horse decides to raise head--not pulling head up with the reins.
Hold at the trot but not the walk as need to follow movement at the walk.
Simulations from Day 1
1. holding hands
2. bicep/tricep take and give contact
3. savvy string - same
4. savvy string around the waist/or on the barrel- add in turn and release as reins/contact means go
5. savvy string in the mouth: biceps is NOT pleasant
Triceps feel so solid and connected and good. Biceps especially if bouncing in the mouth do NOT feel good.
1. Walk and take contact: reins mean go i.e. keep walking without a reaction to the bit or stopping.
2. If taking contact stops the horses forward motion or horse backs--then turn horse and release on the first step.
3. Reactions to the bit: follow the movement i.e. sideways or head going up or down (behind or infront of bit) to avoid the bit. You want to turn sideways let me help you. Following not pulling until they get tired of it.
a. head up two reins lift or one suspension rein.
b. head stretching down to avoid the bit: take feel with biceps and mmaintain contact until horse decides to raise head--not pulling head up with the reins.
Hold at the trot but not the walk as need to follow movement at the walk.
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