Archive for June, 2010

This horse was just uneducated, nervous and restless as it came to Klaus. http://www.hempfling.com/
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This video describes important parts of the fundamental work of the horse therapist Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling. For a better and correct understanding and to avoid misunderstandings, it is important to connect the shown video with his background, which we are adding in the following lines:
Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling continues shaking up equestrians all over the world, with response in all fields like natural horsemanship, horse whispering, classical and freestyle dressage, equestrian sports, western riding, endurance and eventing. He is at the forefront of new ideas on working and interacting with horses and is known for amazing groundwork, considering the horses’ individuality. He considers the horse’s psyche and communicates via body language with these beautiful creatures. His first book, ‘Dancing with Horses’ met with overwhelming international success, especially in pleasure riding and natural riding.
One of the newest publications with huge impact is The Path of The Horse by Stormy May http://www.thepathofthehorse.com/Home.html, where Hempfling is portrayed.
One of his specialities is the work with difficult horses – he transforms dangerous, nervous, traumatized horses into cooperative companions. They recognize him as their leader, and become willing partners in groundwork and under saddle.
With a handful of known names like Monty Roberts and Pat Parelli, KFH is influencing the natural equine handling at top level.
A number of main articles on his horse work have recently been published in Horses For Life http://www.horsesforlife.com.
Very important for Hempfling is in general to interact in all field as long as the activities accord to the horses nature. He is therefore also training and coaching horse-people from fields like show jumping, baroque and artistic dressage, driving, racing, working equitation, doma vaquera and garotcha.
KFH also talks about issues like join-up, round pen, bullfight with horses, and barefoot riding, natural hoof care, bareback riding, rein-less and bridle-less riding. His own riding system Balanced Weight Riding starts with thorough groundwork and lunging at liberty, building up the potential for the exercises of the High School Dressage (Haute Ecole), like shoulder-in, Spanish walk, passage, piaffe, half-pass, flying change, which all origin in the horses natural movements and may be performed at completely loose reins, in contrast to English dressage (represented by names like Helgstrand and Grunsven), and the conventional classical dressage (represented at Cadre Noir, the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Escola Portuguesa de Arte Equestre and the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art).
Genetic changing in breeding, horse characters and horse types are also topics in KFHs repertoire, which he employs with all horses (What Horses Reveal). You will often find him with horses of baroque breeds like Lusitano, PRE, Lipizzan, Knapstrup, and Friesian but he is also very attached to the natural horse types like Arabian, Criollo, Welsh, Welsh Cob, Haflinger, Icelandic and Connemara. His approach is valid for all horses and everyone may feel at home in these authentic basics of Equus. In his courses therefore also riders and breeders from totally different styles are learning how to gain the friendship of their horses, often associated with breeds like Quarter, Thoroughbred, Pinto, Appaloosa, Irish Cob and other horse types.
One may say that he is meanwhile one of the leading names in the issue animal and especially horse welfare, as well as wildlife, roots in nature and animal communication.
Hempflings professional background is in the fields communication, art, theatre, music, study of native people and cultures. He lives on a small island in the Danish Archipelago where he conducts exclusive courses for people from all corners of the world.

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Jun
16

Horse Training

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Training A Horse to back up should be done with a great deal of patience. Learn how to train a horse to back up in this free horse training video.

Expert: Kathy Kentala
Bio: Kathy Kentala owns the Bee Cave Riding Center in Austin, TX. She also owns Signal Hill Ranch, a western venue specializing in team penning and ranch sorting, barrels, poles, and other speed events.
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Jun
16

What are some good horse starting books?

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I just bought a 2 year old gelding that so far is broke and has tons of western pleasure training. My trainer will work with him most of the time but I would like to work a little bit with him too.

This book was required reading for the colts in training class I had to take: "True Horsemanship Through Feel" by Bill Dorrance and Leslie Desmond. You could also try the book "There Are No Problem Horses, Only Problem Riders" by Mary Twelveponies. For working on balance and horsemanship, Sally Swift’s "Centered Riding" books 1 & 2 are rather good.

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Do you find any similarities in how you train a horse to how you train a dog? What are the significant differences?

I actually spent a significant amount of time discussing this topic with a dog trainer, and we agreed that there are more similarities than differences in method.

Pretty much every trainable non-human animal learns through what is called operant conditioning. Either positive or negative reinforcement can be used to shape behavior – which means either addition of reward or removal of pressure.Both forms of reinforcement are used in horse and dog training. In addition, all animals who learn through operant conditioning benefit most from reinforcement that starts on a regular schedule and then migrates to an irregular schedule.

In addition, dogs and horses both can connect operant conditioned learning to classically conditioned verbal cues using similar methods.

At a detail level, the incentives and reinforcements are sometimes different. But both species can use avoidance of pressure (the pressures, of course, are different) and the reward of treats (though horse trainers typically make more use of contact rewards like wither stroking).

The major difference between horse and dog training is the intimacy of horse and trainer compared to dog and trainer. The horse trainer is largely in direct contact with the animal at all times and can easily deliver correction or reward within the 1-3 second causal horizon of the horse. But dog trainers are now able to use remote training collars to give them that immediacy even when at longer distances.

I would say in general that the differences are exaggerated and the similarities tend to be overlooked. But I think horse and dog trainers have a lot to share.

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Jun
13

Horse Riding Holidays Wales

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Go to: http://www.aberystwyth-online.co.uk
Rheidol Riding Centre, spring hunter trials West Wales.

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Equitec Horsewalker Service / www.equitec.nl

Equitec is an international technical service company, specialised in training equipment for horses. Amongst our clients are stables, privately owned as well as the equestrian Top, Royal Dutch Stables and mounted police, in short wherever horses are being trained with special training equipment.

24 Hours service. Ready Day and Night

Failure of the Horsewalker is very disruptive for everyone involved. Equitec has established a unique service system, to put you back on track quick and safe. We can immediately take care of replacement of parts, for older machines too, thus avoiding unplanned, costly investments. Our service area not only in the Netherlands, but extends to most European countries. 24 Hours a day and 365 days a year.

A mobile workshop, skilled co-workers

After a failure report Equitec will contact you promptly. We will arrange for a service car if necessary. In fact, such a service car is a workshop on wheels, complete with the right equipment and most important spare parts.

A skilled Equitec specialist
will make sure that your horses can resume their training as quickly as possible.

Warehouse
Many special parts are available directly from our warehouse.

Service and Maintenance

Regarding your Horsewalker not requiring immediate action, Equitec offers a routing system, and a variety of maintenance contracts.

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Advice, Service, Maintenance and Revision of training equipment for horses

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Jun
13

A Natural Start to Horse Training

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Three-week-old Andalusion/TB colt Venidero’s Dior is benefiting from a natural start to horse training thanks to the principles of Parelli Natural Horsemanship. In this video, Parelli student Anne Favre and Dior’s mom, April, help Dior build confidence and curiosity. With such great experiences as a foal, Dior’s future training will be set up for success!

To learn more about setting yourself and your horse up for successful horse training with the Parelli approach to natural horsemanship, visit http://www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com/natural-horsemanship?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=multimedia&utm_term=horse%2Btrainer&utm_content=Natural%2BHorsemanship&utm_campaign=ParelliTube

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How much will it go for? GUESS WHEN THE BIDDING WILL STOP? Enjoy a Horse and Pony auction in Hay on Wye in Mid Wales. Please work to retain the country way of life in Wales.

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Jun
10

Lungeing Horse with invisible equipment

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Lungeing Horse with invisible equipment.

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