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Added on April 01, 2021 -- Length 1:34:59

Riding Exercises - Part I - A Balancing Act

riding exercises 
Wondering what productive exercises you can do when you hop on your horse? Many times we catch, groom and saddle our horse, only to be left wondering, "What should we do?" We want to do something productive in our training and riding, but what? Too often we get hung up in circles. But a circle goes nowhere! Let's look at some exercises that you and your horse can mutually benefit from. Our style of relational horsemanship is about progressions: meaningful pieces that make up exercises that further make up goals. In Part One of this series, we're going to practice some exercises that focus on bringing your horse to balance. Then, we'll explore what you can do with that and have some fun at the same time!

Added on March 17, 2021 -- Length 1:48:49

Driving Part II - Hitching Up and Heading Out

driving  ground driving 
Taking Relational Horsemanship into Driving! In Part II of this series, we'll take our work from Part I and put it to task.  We'll be working on ensuring your horse can follow you under the pressures of objects moving behind and beside them.   Using the progressions we introduced in the previous session, we'll advance to having our new horses pulling objects. We'll continue to progress to pulling a sleigh. Joining us will be Verne and Connie from Horse Drawn Rides for All Occasions.  They'll be giving us a detailed tour of driving tack and equipment and exercises that they use to train their amazing Clydesdales.  This is going to be a great one!

Added on February 24, 2021 -- Length 1:47:23

Trimming Troubles / Standing Still

trimming standing anxiety 
Tough time standing still?  Let's help! Join hoof care specialist, Connie Challice (Success With Horses) and I in this extra special webinar. We'll look at those frustrating moments when your horse isn't standing still for the trimmer (or anything else, for that matter).  Your horse has a reason for moving.  It can be a number of different things.  In this session, we'll go through those and show you how to have your horse standing calm and relaxed when you need it. Joey is our demo horse for this show.  He's a big guy and has a tough time with some pressures that manifest themselves while being trimmed.  A perfect subject! You won't want to miss this one.

Added on February 17, 2021 -- Length 1:42:30

When Your Horse Says, "NO!"

refusal  fear  leadership 
What do you do when your horse outright refuses something? Sometimes our horse struggles with something that we think should be easy.  Walking through a puddle.  Getting in a trailer.  Riding into the arena corners. The most important thing to understand is that the horse's reason is 100% legitimate.  Horse's are unable to pretend to be scared, for example. We can end up frustrated when we don't understand why our horse is having a problem.  Instead of frustration, though, let's learn what's really going on and practice some tools to help our horse out.

Added on February 10, 2021 -- Length 1:37:34

How Horses Really Communicate and How You Can, Too!

communication relationships space energy empathy focus 
Horses communicate in ways that we're generally not taught, but that we all naturally understand. If you've spent any time with Amazing Horse Country, whether in a clinic or webinar or private session, you've likely heard Scott talk about the ways in which horses communicate. In this webinar, we're really going to dig into those.  Define them.  Demonstrate them.   When we are working with others, be they people, horses, dogs or what have you, it's essential that we can communicate in a way they understand.  Imaging trying to teach a person how to do something intricate - when that person doesn't speak English at all, and you don't know their language.  It would be frustrating to both parties involved.  Many training methods focus on teaching the horse a piece of human communication. I've found the deepest and most clear way to communicate with a horse doesn't involve teaching them anything at all.  It involves us learning, because they already know how to speak "horse".

Added on September 30, 2020 -- Length 1:28:55

First Saddling - Saddle Issues

saddle colt starting saddling 
There are many steps before putting a saddle on a horse.  A horse that struggles when saddled has missed out on these critical steps in their training. Every horse is a unique individual and responds differently to different pressures.  The saddle is combination of many different pressures. When we're starting a colt, restarting a horse or working through saddle/cinch issues, it's important that we make sure we cross all the t's and dot all the i's before we pull that cinch tight. In this webinar, we'll explore some easy exercises you can do to prepare a horse for the saddle for a first time and help a horse with saddle anxieties.  This isn't just the cinch, but everything associated with the saddle and the space around, above and below it.

Added on November 11, 2020 -- Length 1:25:08

The First Ride - The Power of 2

first ride saddle 
We want that first ride on a horse to go well. For both the rider and the horse. We can take many steps to ensure the first ride on a horse is a great one for both of us.  In our horsemanship style, we ensure that our horse knows everything they can about being ridden before we swing a leg over for the first time.   But we eventually have to get on and that introduces a disconnect - the handler is now in a new position: behind the horse's eyes and above their head.  This adds some additional pressures to the horse that we can't replicate in the groundwork. In this webinar, we dig right into bridging that gap using a powerful resource - another person.  My friend, Dale Weiers, Wildie Zeus and I team up to show you how we can make that first ride a success.

Added on January 27, 2021 -- Length 1:35:03

Ponying - What you and Your Horses need to Know

ponying colt starting 
There's three in this team! Ponying is not simply leading one horse while you're riding another. Ponying is a great way to show new horses or colts some very important things about being ridden and following you. When we start ponying, we have a team of three in a leadership structure: you at the top, your riding horse in the middle and the pony horse at the bottom. This gives us a huge advantage we don't have in the groundwork: your riding horse can work your pony horse for you, and in just about every maneuver possible, from forward with gait changes and stops, to backups and side-passes. It's advantageous because your riding horse can communicate to your pony horse much quicker and clearer - being a horse, that is! Ponying can be a lot of fun and involves leading and sending...but never pulling or dragging. It's a great opportunity to show a new horse or colt the feel of a rein and how to follow in athletic precision.

Added on January 20, 2021 -- Length 1:23:04

Ground Driving - Leading from Behind - Part 1

ground driving  harness  leading 
Taking Relational Horsemanship into Driving! In this webinar we dig into our style of positive horsemanship and progressions to make sure your horse is ready to drive.   Whether we're doing groundwork, riding or driving, one thing is common: your horse must be following you. For that to be the case, you must be leading.  In Part 1 of this series, we're working with a couple of horses.  Neither horse has ever been driven before. We really explore the pieces we need to have in place so that when we start Leading from Behind, our horse is attentive, focused on us and relaxed.  One horse struggles with certain elements; that's a great opportunity to demonstrate how we work though them.

Added on January 13, 2021 -- Length 1:50:05

4 Different Horses, 4 Different Progressions - Part I

progressions  pressure  leadership  following 
Follow Scott as he digs into various training scenarios with his own horses. If you've been following our webinars, you'll have heard me explain the concept of progressions.  Progressions are related paths of exercises that we use to train horses in our style of horsemanship.  Horse training should be anything but linear.  Instead, what we do is closer to chipping away at a block of wood to make a sculpture.  We might work on one side, then another part of it, and as the carving emerges, the parts that we need to work on are revealed.  We end up with a beautiful carving.   Working with a horse is much the same.  As we dig into some facets of their training, our relationship and their athleticism, we begin to see the horse as a unique individual that has specific needs.  It's our job as horsepeople to meet those needs. In this series, we're going to take a look at 4 different horses.  Namely, Chip, Ditch, Zeus and Bailey. I'll start working with each one of them, discover what they need and work to provide it as we progress in their training.  All our training will be filmed, and you'll have the benefit of step by step explanations and the theory behind everything I'm doing. This is going to be a big project, but awesome for our members! (and of course, awesome for the horses!)