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Tuesday
May312005

3-D Clinic 3 Recap: Training Under Saddle

Our team would like to congratulate the participants on their outstanding and engaged participation in the third of our 3-D mini series, Training Under Saddle. Following is a recap of the content of the Training Under Saddle clinic.

We focused on the following skills:

  • establishing warm up and reward rituals with the horse as part of the training process
  • lunging in small circles
  • riding small circles using only one rein - teaching the horse to follow its nose
  • stopping exercises
  • control of the horse’s body parts
  • turns on forehand and haunch
  • half passes
  • roll backs
  • counter flex
  • counter canter
  • canter departures
  • consistency in all gaits
  • pattern work
  • diagonal reverse
  • circles
  • timing for up and down transitions

Here are a few examples of the “ah ha!” moments from this clinic:

  • “I need to let it get ugly to reach another level.” – Barbie Miller
  • “All this time I thought the box was around the saddle horn. Today I realized that it (the box) is in front of the pommel. Duh! Putting my hands in the real box…what a difference!” – Marcie King
  • “Raising the reins to lower the head. My horse is so smart!”
  • “When the horse knows what to do, they are the best teacher – IF YOU LISTEN!” – Carolyn
  • “If the horse ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” – Carolyn
  • “The roll-back cue is like the square turn. And I have an awesome horse!!! Do I owe a brag buck?”
  • “In the 8 years that Hunter and I have been together we had never connected. The 2 clinics we have been to here did more for us as a team than the 8 years before.” – Sue Wyatt

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