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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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Clinic Clips: Canter Your Horse

June 1, 2020
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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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Lessons with Jim: Pre-Flight Check with a New Horse

July 31, 2019
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“It’s all about helping a horse shape up to a feel. And when I say shape up, it’s from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. It’s not about just turning the head in or the shoulder in, it’s about the whole body picking up that shape.” In this video lesson, Jim continues his work with training horse Sandy, an 8-year-old quarter horse who was started under saddle a few years ago but ridden very inconsistently since. He runs through a few little evaluation exercises before swinging a leg over the saddle.

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Lessons with Jim: Lunging with the Rear Cinch

July 31, 2019
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In this video lesson, Jim works with a horse who is having a difficult time accepting the rear cinch during a lunging exercise. "Closeness just gives us the ability to have a better conversation with our horse. Distance and feel in the lead line is like distance when trying to talk to somebody across the room or the arena. The closer I can get that person to me, the better they understand what I’m saying. The closer I can keep this horse to me on this lead line, the better she can understand the feel of what I’m offering up

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