| Archive for It's About The Horse The Free Forum for those Doing Parelli - and a whole lot More! "Anything forced and misunderstood can never be beautiful." Xenophon (430-355 B.C.), |
| Hertha |
Marijke de Jong: free e-bookThe message below is about an e-book that M de Jong is offering. You need to sign up to receive it. I've done so and it is very good. PDF document. Nice and simply explained. Translated from Dutch. Good illustrations. It worked for me by going through her Facebook page.Happy New Year to You and Your Horses! I wish you a wonderful 2012 full of progress, success, fulfillment, satisfaction, gratitude, love, joy & happiness! I would also like to thank you for your time and attention the past year for reading my emails and visiting my websites. To express my gratitude to you as a loyal follower of my publications I just wrote an eBook that I would like to give to you. It is my way of saying: THANK YOU!! The eBook is a 20 page introduction to Straightness Training. Click the following link to access the free eBook: http://academic-art-of-riding.com...duction-to-straightness-training/ I hope you like it, please let me know on Facebook! Enjoy reading! Best Regards, Marijke P.s. In case the link doesn't work, try to copy/past the following link in your browser: http://academic-art-of-riding.com...duction-to-straightness-training/ |
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| Clarissa |
Hertha you beat me to it! Obviously bad weather or all chores done early at your place? 
This is a very good booklet for everybody. It shows why so many horses have physical issues & starts you down the track of what to do about them. It has all been available before but is now all in one booklet rather than several steps. I wish I had the money to do her full course (oh & a horse to do it with! Lol) Anyway Sonny had better watch himself when his feet are better because this is what we’ll be continuing with for the rest of the year. 
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| Hertha |
Was finished by 9:45am. Gotta get out there early on hot days. Even starting at 7am, I was drenched in sweat after a long-reining session with Boots in a huge paddock full of big round bales of hay. We used them for markers to change directions and do patterns - great fun. Sadly, they all got picked up this afternoon 
I think I also have the advantage of being closer to the International Date Line than you 
Certainly lots to get on with in that booklet. Boots is pretty good, but definitely less limber on one side. I'm using click/treat for direction changes on the circle from left to right so putting more effort in becomes worth her while. Trying to do a little bit often. |
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| Tigerlily |
I got it too! i think it is a very informative, detailed, well explained and demonstrated as to what asymetry is and how to correct it. I would recomend it to everyone. she also has a video you can watch but only it will only be available for public viewing until sun night (1-8-12)
http://academic-art-of-riding.com...htness-training-as-a-last-chance/ |
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| Hertha |
Interesting how she has made a big commercial program out of the basic NH info of:
"Teach everything from both sides of the horse and do at least twice as much on the stiffer side" 
The essential prerequisite, of course, is that the person gets ambidextrous and smooth on their stiff side.  
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| Tigerlily |
agreed Hertha, but want to say that unfortunately 'symetry' is an often forgotten or ignored concept in too many programs |