Posted in Misc on Mar 4th, 2010
From this point, forward I am focusing on helping people to understand my Method of training through the Waterhole Rituals at liberty.
I have trained at liberty for over 40 years and in the mid 70’s I coined the phrase ‘Liberty Training’. In those days I had to explain what Liberty Training a horse was. [...]
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Posted in Misc on Feb 18th, 2010
Hello. I will be doing one more Uberstreichen Excercise in this series before we take a break to give you some more time to work with them. I’ll then be doubling back round for the sake of any new readers to the blog and revisit the Waterhole Rituals in the run up to the new [...]
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Posted in Misc on Feb 16th, 2010
This winter I have been working to complete my next book on the Waterhole Rituals. If you are new to my blog and do not know of my work and Methods, I thought I’d share with you the first page of my book and then you can ask me questions on the subject of the [...]
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Posted in Misc on Jan 28th, 2010
Today I would like to share with you a video by one of my students using the Uberstreichen Exercises. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
This video clip I made yesterday.
I put the camera up in a tree and started. Before starting I have been reading on Carolyn’s UE Thursday blog and [...]
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Posted in Misc on Jan 19th, 2010
This was a very good question from Elizabeth in Thursday’s classroom and I thought it would be useful to share my answer with you too.
Elizabeth’s question was how the 7 steps of liberty training I taught in my first video Liberty Training are related to the Waterhole Rituals. Well, the short answer is that they [...]
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Posted in Misc on Jan 12th, 2010
Hello. Today I have a story for you about the power of patience, persistence and also respect, which I hope you will find very revealing.
I was once asked to work with a well-bred warm blood mare who was extremely dangerous to be around. She would charge open-mouthed, intending to bite hard, at whoever came [...]
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Posted in Misc on Jan 5th, 2010
I want to thank you for reading my blog over this past year. I believe you are a part of a group of equestrians who are on the cutting age in supporting the horse’s journey with humans. It is an ongoing pleasure for me to be on this journey with you.
I know many of you [...]
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Posted in Misc on Dec 15th, 2009
Hello again. I love working with my horses. There isn’t anything much that I get so much pleasure out of, as you might have guessed. However, there one thing that thrills me almost as much and that is seeing my students succeed with their horses using my Method.
One of the students who continues to [...]
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Posted in Misc on Dec 10th, 2009
The Uberstreichen Half-Halt Exercises school the horse from the ground to respond more effectively to your half-halts when you ride.
(Half-halt is when you ask the horse to stop and he responds immediately and in the moment you know that the horse will stop you ask him to go forward and he does this whole-heartedly. [...]
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Posted in Misc on Dec 8th, 2009
Hi. I’m back now from my vacation, which was very enjoyable and relaxing and I’m ready to really get into the Uberstreichen Exercise lessons with you which continue on Thursday.
Before then, I’d like to show you some rules for riding, which I think come from the Renaissance period. I’d like you to tell me what [...]
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