When: July 2010
Where: Riverbend Vet Clinic, Buronga
Time: 8.30am - 5.00pm
Where: Riverbend Vet Clinic, Buronga
Time: 8.30am - 5.00pm
Level 1 Secondary: Lessons 3 & 4
Safe & Practical Saddling and Riding techniques—To have your horse going forward Confidently & Easily—Sideways and Backwards—How to stop you horse with just your body energy and one rein
Level 2 Secondary: Lessons 7 & 8
Impulsion & developing emotional fitness for your horse - Cherokee Bridle - Introducing the Bridle - Picking up the pace - Leads & Diagonals
Level 3 Primary: Lessons 10 & 11
Improve communication & positive reflexes on 50’ Rope - 22’ Ring Rope - Flank Rope - Long Reining - Advance our Liberty Skills - Bareback & Bridle-less Riding
It was fantastic to get together with you all in Mildura once again to share our horsemanship knowledge, to see you all stretching your comfort zones and 'working through the ugly bits until we find the brilliant bits'.
The team in the first weekend did a fabulous job with their Level 1 riding and we seen the benefits of having only one rein to learn to change our instictive habits to that which our horses need to help them out emotionally and find comfort in going forward. What a difference that first trot passenger lesson made! We then got to see the Level 2 Secondary students strut their stuff and again the fantastic changes that took place in their canter passenger lesson. We had the perfect end to our L2 lessons with a relaxing trail walk out to a nice open area that we explored using the impulsion programme 'the stopping spot' It worked a treat and the horses (and of course the riders) were all happy and calm in this new area by the time we had finised.
PLUS....we did our first Level 3 Lessons!! Yay! It was exciting to see so many students in Mildura getting their first taste of Level 3, working with the Ranch Rope, Long Reining, Flank Roping and of course doing much more with their liberty and starting their Bareback and bridle less riding!!
Here are the Ta-Da's from the Weekend:
It's all about Personal Space!!
Help & Release - working through the 'Ugly Stuff' to do the barrels
Cantered on Day 2
"Relax" & "Trust"
Stayed on top of my horse throughout a trot Passenger Lesson
Made it over the barrels eventually
We got Sideways!!
Stretched my comfort zone & completed a CANTER Passenger Lesson
Got my sideways & better backup & phases
Canter PL - Stayed on
Bareback Riding - stayed on
Cody not running off
Better Backup - pinch test
Simple Lead changes
Stopping spot in an open area.
Stood up on Buzz
Deb stood up on Cheyanne whilst she was very anxious
Cheyanne found comfort with my hand at Liberty in roundyard
Fabulous work in longreining for Cheyanne & Dr Deb
Great focus in backup to end of 22ft rope for Cheyanne under pressure
Deni Canter at Liberty
