Excerpt from the Horseman’s Gazette Issue No. 17 Struggling with getting your horse to move out with both life and softness? Riding a green horse, Paul offers some solid strategies to build the responsiveness to your leg so that your horse chooses to move out from just an “opening of the door” to move forward. […]
Excerpt from the Horseman’s Gazette Issue No. 17 How you tie up your mecate might depend on where you are when you throw you saddle on. Bryan demonstrates several different methods to tying up a mecate discussing how the differences in terrain and the job you are doing might determine which you choose. The original […]
Excerpt from the Horseman’s Gazette Issue No. 17 Moving the hindquarters might seem like the most basic of maneuvers. While it is fundamental there are several different approaches, and you should be able to master each one. In this segment Buck demonstrates four ways of moving the hindquarters and discusses the circumstances when having each […]
Excerpt from the Horseman’s Gazette Issue No. 11 Riding balanced circles and turns is foundational for any discipline of riding. In this segment Wendy Murdoch continues to coach a student rider through proper alignment in the turn. When a horse shapes his body on the arc of the circle, there should be lateral bend in […]
Excerpt from the Horseman’s Gazette Issue No. 16 We hear all the time about the little things that make a big difference. Today Bryan Neubert demonstrates one such exercise, using the halter rope and the saddle horn to show a horse how to bend, and have it connect all the way down to his feet […]
Excerpt from the Horseman’s Gazette Issue No.16 Paul Dietz has 6 basic maneuvers that he is constantly working on; forward and backward; moving the hindquarters right and left and moving the front quarters right and left. In this segment Paul shows how you can use landmarks, natural or man made to give you a framework […]
Excerpt from the Horseman’s Gazette Issue No. 16 Martin Black demonstrates on a green horse some exercises for riding in a hackamore. Martin outlines why he likes riding in this traditional piece of equipment and points out some of the challenges as well as the benefits. The horse he is riding has had some time […]
Excerpt from the Horseman’s Gazette Issue No. 16 If you were going to spend your life savings building a house, JIm Hicks points out that of course you would start with a solid foundation. With this in mind Jim introduces us to some basic Dressage terminology and geometry, illustrating movements with a variety of horses […]
Excerpt from the Horseman’s Gazette Issue No. 16 If you have ever wondered what an instructor is looking for and wanting out of a horse and rider this is a wonderful opportunity to be in the mind of instructor Ellen Eckstein as she narrates a lesson with one of her students. In this third part […]
Excerpt from the Horseman’s Gazette Issue No. 15 In this segment you will watch the culmination of the past two issue’s with Wendy Murdoch and learn to ride a leg yield with your horse. So far you have learned to step the hindquarters and the front quarters independently; now combining those to movements while keeping […]