This electronic book focuses on helping you work safely and effectively with your horse by building a strong training foundation. Information includes: 1) Preparation for Ground work and Riding 2) Understanding your Horse's body language 3) Pre-signal and preparatory commands, and 4) Ground Steps to Success (walk, whoa, disengage hips, back, go forward cue and other movements.

In this book Dr. Mike provides numerous training exercises so that riders will gain a better feel of the horse. Each exercise is well described and shares with you the benefit of performing the exercise. The book includes multiple warm-up exercises for getting better directional control and the proper use of your legs when riding. Advanced exercises are included for enhanced responsiveness. The basics of dressage and proper biomechanics are presented to help you improve your body language ...

This book includes 12 easy to follow riding exercises complete with written instructions and diagrams. Great for warm-ups and giving you and your horse some new challenges. These exercises incorporate Classical and Western Dressage Elements. Table of Contents Pattern 1 Dancing with Cones and Logs Pattern 2 Trotting on the Oval Pattern 3 Moving with Style Pattern 4 Squares and Loping Pattern 5 Staircase Leg Yield Pattern 6 Backing on the “L”

Offered at a >25% savings compared to purchasing all four works individually. Previosly titled Dr. Mike's Horsemanship Complete Works.  Same great book...just a better title. This is a combined work containing Dr. Mike's Horsemanship Ground Steps to Success, Dr. Mike's Horsemanship Responsive Riding, Dr. Mike's Horsemanship Riding Exercises, Dr. Mike's Horsemanship Horse Owner's Modern Keys for Success. Dr. Mike's Horsemanship Ground Steps to Succes...

A collection of Essays from many years of successful horsemanship. This book focuses on ideas to help new horse owners build a strong foundation of thoughts and ideas for success in owning, riding, and training horses.TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION - A few words about this workCHAPTER 1 - Essays on HorsemanshipThe 6 C’s of Horsemanship: Building Blocks for Success in Relationship TrainingCommon Sense and HorsemanshipFrom the Ground Up—-Maintainin...

In this guide, the Coach’s Corral team (www.coachscorral.com) outlines some safety precautions and provides a 5 day plan to help you be successful in preparing your horse for a visit from the veterinarian or farrier (this also works well for chiropractic and dental visits for your horse). It is a good idea that you repeat this program over the course of a few weeks, working your horse for five days then giving him/her two days off, to build a strong foundation for safe handling for your ho...

This guide from Coach’s Corral (www.coachscorral.com) shares ways that you as the rider can manage and improve the situation to help your horse achieve relaxation. With relaxation the horse and rider has improved safety, an enhanced ability to learn, and overall the ride is much more pleasurable. Table of Contents: Introduction to 5 Days for Relaxation by the Horse and Rider Safety Guidance 4 Goals of this program Specific exercises with descriptions of...

Spooking is the number one email subject that comes to me as an equine problem practitioner from people around the world with horse problems. The number one DVD of my entire inventory people order is my Despooking DVD.Spooking is the number one horse problem because it is so deeply ingrained in horses. Spooking and horses go together like quacking and ducks.Spooking is unpredictable and when its unexpectedness or severity catches someone by surprise they get on the net looki...

Collection is one of the most misunderstood concepts in Western and English riding. Everyone wants it, but few people know how to get it. World-class rider, trainer, and clinician Lynn Palm now offers the one and only book that explains away the mysteries of collection while telling you exactly how to attain it. With 40 years experience riding and training champion all-around performance horses, and a background in dressage, Lynn has perfected an easy-to-use system of exercises that gradua...

"De-Spook" Your HorseAn umbrella opening, a tree branch creaking, a tarp flapping in the wind, a dusty shadow in the back of the barn -- what seems benign to the human eye often terrifies a horse. His immediate response? Screech to a halt, buck, twirl, and run like the dickens! What can a rider do but hang on?In fact, there is plenty a rider can do to "de-spook" a horse, and Teaching Your Horse to Overcome Fears tells you how. Following the advice of renowned trainer...

“Wyatt’s been to hell and back, and as his story unfolds, it’s clear that God has chosen to use this man’s life experience for the sake of offering hope and healing to others.”— Cheryl Richardson, best-selling author of Life MakeoversWyatt Webb blends horse sense with common sense in a revolutionary new form of therapy. If you want to deal with your demons, it helps to make a pit stop in Tucson, Arizona. His tools are not a leather couch and a standard the...

Do you find yourself making excuses not to ride? Are you stuck in the arena? Do you get nervous/anxious before riding/competing? This book will help you to understand your feelings and give you strategies to deal with them. Christine shares with you the Three Keys to Success based on her successful Confident Rider Workshops. Exercises and case studies are included to help you move forward. Throughout my work as a Riding Teacher I am being constantly challenged by, what seems to be, an incr...