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From the Publisher
Basic training is basic training and we're going to keep things simple and easy: When you finish this book, you'll have a better-trained, more dependable horse than 99% of the others at your barn.
Understanding Horses
When your horse knows this book back to front, go train for barrels, roping, eventing, jumping or dressage. But today, basics are basics.
Section I is the stuff your horse needs to know. Section II is the stuff (the theory) you need to know. Practice the first handful of chapters in order, as written. Beyond that, you should feel free to mix and match depending on your needs or abilities.
Check out Section II:
- Each Time You Mount Up, Do This .
- How to Pick Up Your Reins Like a Pro
- Six Easy Ways to Improve Your Training
- Diagnosing Problems
- Training Magic: Release on the Thought
- What You’re Feeling For
- Reins Tell Direction, Legs Tell Speed
- Perfect the First Time
Training Horses: Starting and Re-Starting
This book is a roadmap to building the foundation every horse needs!
Here's how to train a horse, a map to building the foundation every horse needs regardless of age, breed or background, regardless of riding discipline (English or Western), regardless of what you've planned for your mare, stallion, colt or filly's future. From Certified John Lyons Trainer Keith Hosman, it's your guide to learning and practicing proven natural horsemanship tips & techniques, methods vital to ensuring future success. Because your horse won't change until you do.
Topics include:
- Speed Control
- "Legs Mean Move"
- Neck Reining How-To
- Teach your horse to lower its head
- Crossing Creeks and Scary Stuff
- Better Back Ups
- Getting Leads and a fix for the cross-canter
- Getting Straight - and Diagonal - Movement
"What I'd Teach Your Horse" ... A wealth of information written in a plain and easy to understand manner
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Train the Green HorseIf you broke your horse to saddle and got on it for the first time yesterday, this book (chapter 1) is where you’d start tomorrow. |
Re-Train the Older HorseIf you have an older horse and you’ve taught him everything you know and he still don’t know nothin’, this book is where you’d start, (chapter 2). |
Easy to Understand Horse Training"What I'd Teach Your Horse," by John Lyons Certified Training Keith Hosman, is a road map, your guide to building the foundation every horse needs, regardless of age, breed or background, regardless of what you’ve got ultimately planned for that horse. |
True Horsemanship Starts HereAfterwards, when your horse knows this book back to front, go train for barrels, roping, eventing, jumping or dressage. But today, basics are basics. |
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| Your Foal: Essential Training | Round Penning: First Steps to Starting a Horse | There's More to Training Horses | Round Penning (together with) How to Start a Horse | What I'd Teach Your Horse: Training & Re-Training the Basics | How to Start a Horse | |
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| Description | You have years till you can ride your colt or filly - but there's a lot of training that needs to be done in the meantime. This is your step-by-step guide; it shows you exactly what to do, what to look for and in what order. | This guide to the proven methods of John Lyons, shows you how to build a strong foundation on your green horse or reset the attitude of an older horse. Because "round penning" is more than simply running a horse in circles. | Be a better rider, be a better horse trainer: Tips, tricks, mental imagery & sage advice. This book trains people to train horses—because there's more to riding than not falling off and to training than teaching a horse to stop or go. | For the horseman looking to start a colt from scratch. 2 complete books in 1: Round pen training explained + "How to start" your horse, from 1st-time bridling & saddling to sacking out, bridle work from the ground, pre-mount work, and first ride. | If you broke your horse to saddle and rode it for the first time today or have an older horse that needs re-training, this is where you'd start tomorrow, your guide to building the foundation every horse needs, regardless of age, breed or background. | Put a solid foundation on your young, green horse: Simple and objective training for the unbroke horse, from 1st-time bridling and saddling to sacking out, bridle work from the ground, pre-mount work, and your first ride. |
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