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Horsemanship Through Cows

Horsemanship Through Cows Bar T Horsemanship, October 24, $150 This clinic is an opportunity to learn the finest in communication through feel and timing with your horse. Learn to maneuver different parts of your horse’s body to achieve true straightness. We’ll use these skills to explore the fundamentals of cow work. This is a great opportunity for all disciplines— from the trail horse to the finished dressage horse— to work to master communication. Use the cow as a tool to give your horse a job as you work on isolating and maneuver  parts of his body. Become a team and see what

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Training Tips for Pushy Pasture Horses

Do you have horses that are pushy at the gate? In this Q&A session, Double LL Tack & Feed Jim addresses a problem about a group of young horses who are pushy at the gate with each other, and the owners. The owners are actively working to correct the problem, and Jim shares some solutions.

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Clinic Clips: Groundwork Obstacles and Space

Understanding how to work with the horse on the ground is of vital importance. It all transfers to the saddle as well, but it is also for safety. Jim shows how to do obstacles, which could be everyday stuff around the barn, as well as discusses the importance of teaching a horse position and space. Check it out now!

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Clinic Clips: 3-Foot Circle

In this video Jim Thomas demonstrates and discusses the purpose and effectiveness of a "3 foot lunge" with a beautiful Friesian stallion. The horse does not need to make you a "june bug on a string" and lunging should NEVER be for the intention to "wear a horse out". Instead, find out more about the HOW and WHY Jim uses a rope and does small three foot circles to gain the brain of the horse and start working.

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Clinic Clips: Avoiding Learned Helplessness

In this video, Jim takes the time to demonstrate teaching a horse how to handle a task by learning to feel calm and confident. The important part of this video is the horse learning to RESPOND not to REACT! This transcends to trailer loading or ANY task! The methodology here is VERY important so please take a minute and watch this video and share with friends!

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Clinic Clips: Energy and the Horse

In this clinic clip Jim talks about something a little different; ENERGY! Okay, okay - as Jim says, he's not all out there with the Chakras and balancing BUT there is something to this whole thing about energy that we share with horses AND the power that horses have to shape our own energy! So, enjoy this little bonus clip and if you have a great story of the power of the energy and relationship with the horse please post below in the comments!

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Clinic Clips: Canter Your Horse

Many riders get stuck in the Walk/Trot because they are nervous to teach their horse to canter. This is a great video about the time it takes, and how to teach, a horse how to canter. In this video, you can see a portion of a lesson Jim was teaching with a great horse and rider and the important steps (and not important ones *hint - directions*) needed to get the horse to pick up a canter and feel good about it!

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There’s Always a Warning

As I reach between my shoulder blades, I can still feel the results of a missed warning— “a shot across the bow”— from a few weeks ago in the Netherlands.  I’ve replayed the video a few times for friends to show that the missed signal will always develop into something bigger! In my daily activities of working with horses both from the ground and under-saddle, I don’t know of a time the horse didn’t give me a clue of what might happen next if I didn’t take their concerns with some level of importance.  Horses are no different than people

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