A substantial amount of time is spent by serious pony folk on getting some information, some methods and some tips from trainers and other professionals. They would like to gain each advantage that will make contributions to their hopes of making themselves good riders. They regularly go through a few alternatives before finally finding training that will work for them.
All too many times, you will see wannabe hot shot riders going by rote thru the same routine again and again, whether they do pleasure riding or events like dressage or cutting. They barely bother to use their initiative and go thru the same motions time and time again.
If they ought to sell off their old horse and get themselves another one, they go through the same routing from the start all over again. The irony is that highly experienced riders get astride the same horses, they can get the pony to do things you’d never have believed attainable. And there lies the secret: you have to know horses completely, you must be expert at their psychology and you have to be expert at your own cues. You also have to maintain correct positioning all the time and emanate total positivism, horses are terribly receptive to human mood and base their own behaviour on what they read of their rider’s moods.
How often have I seen riders kick and whip and spur their pony to get some action. When the horse responds, they jerk away at the reins and give the pony hell by pulling at its mouth. With that kind of rider behavior, do you truly expect horses to respond well?
Just think of the joy of dancing the horse in self carriage. Imagine doing it with no need to put your horses thru the same exercises constantly, because they don’t do what you need them to do. As far as your horses are concerned such repetition is nothing except unjustified punishment. Think also of the thrill of being able to maintain the right seat at all times.
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Never lose a chance to pick up some quality coaching knowledge. Read it (or see it or listen if it is video or audio) continually. Absorb it, become a guru at it. Boost your experience with unceasing practice.
How are you able to recognise the quality of coaching offered, not solely in terms of equestrian applicability, but in terms of easy understanding and absorbing also?
Listen to good trainers. They can import tons of handy info on the results which they got with horses using various coaching strategies. Since they’re pros, they’re going to be very clear and lucid in their observations. They can guide you to great advantage on what you should go looking for and what you need to avoid. You can learn something from them how to break up coaching into sessions and steps, and judge each step and session as you complete it.
Good coaching elements are pretty much the same for all riders, horses and trainers, and as far as these basic principles go, the intended discipline is not important. It can be cutting, hacking, reining, Western or English style riding, Western pleasure riding or just about anything else. No problem related to a horse’s failure to respond properly can be attributed to discipline. It is the result of lack of efficient communication between the rider and the horse. Effective and efficient communication can only ever be achieved with the right quality and right degree of training.
As a tutor, you must also remember a very important factor: you never stop learning. There isn’t such a thing as the perfect tutor, the perfect horse or the ideal rider. Perfection is generally a journey, never a destination.
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