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Watch the video below to discover how horse’s learn and how understanding this can help you decode your horse’s behavior.
Learn how your horse thinks and how to communicate with them to create a happy and willing riding partner
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In today’s world, everybody is busy. Our cell phones and worries of what else is going on in life seem to keep us constantly distracted.
If you have a young horse, or an older one that does not have trail experience you want to start them trail riding the right
Most riders, especially those who do any kind of arena work, are familiar with the concept that a horse should “move off your leg.” This
I signed up for the Balanced Riding course after watching Callie on YouTube. I’ve learned so much from this course. As you start riding when you’re young, you learn the fundamentals, but then you drift so far away from them in different skills that you’re learning that you sometimes kind of forget or don’t appropriately utilize those fundamentals anymore. And she’s really brought me back to that level of understanding specifically how to ride with the seat. And I think that’s kind of the most powerful thing you can learn to do as a rider, is to sit your horse appropriately, not have to rely so much on your reins. So that’s been huge, just completely changed the way I ride.
I just want to say thank you to everyone for all the comments and positive comments I have read while on this site. I have taken many of the free courses offered by CRK training over the past few months and it has help with my confidence. I actually rode my daughter’s horse for the first time outside in the ring since she came home from a free lease September. I have practiced many of the lessons and watched many videos. It was just at a walk but I felt confident with every thing I have learnt so far, plus I have learnt that I am not the only one who gets nervous and that it is okay to be nervous and thanks to Callie’s lessons I have learnt to take one day at a time and work though the times I feel nervous.
As a new horse owner and rider I wanted a training series that would walk me through each step of equitation for a beginner. That is exactly what I got with the CRK Balanced Rider Series. Callie King is a talented horse trainer and accomplished rider and it shows through each of her videos. She is clear and concise when discussing her insider knowledge of horse care, training, and riding.
As with all of the work Callie does, this program is informative, thoughtful, evidence based. The course provides good resources on horsemanship, managing fear, developing confidence. The videos of “how to” help your horse manage his fear were particularly good (in that) helping my horse manage moments of fear, helps me to manage mine.
This is why I so enjoy your videos and webinars. Your approach is so positively based and therefore so kind and gentle while still being very effective. You work with the horse and not against him.
THANK YOU!
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Dear Callie,
I enjoy you videos and on-line courses greatly.
I have a question about training a young horse the canter signal. How do you usually go about teaching that with a novice horse?
All the best
Jenny
Jenny, teach the cue on the lunge line using the voice first!
-Julia Burdy, CRK Training Community Manager
Hi Callie. Love your videos, watch that all the time, I am a novice ( an older aged novice). Just wandering in some of the videos the horses have a round white bit, is thus rubber , is it more gentler than an average snaffle?
The ‘harshness’ of a bit is really dependent on the rider’s hands but generally yes it is a softer bit!
-Julia Burdy, CRK Training Community Manager
Hi Callie thank you for making these videos, I have a question my horse is reluctant to lift her hooves and she will back twards other horses to threaten to kick, she is 12 years old and the previous owner said she never kicked him I get the feeling sometimes that she is threatening other horses so she can protect me or only have my attention???? Mary
Hi Mary! Thanks for your questions. For the not wanted to lift her hooves I would recommend watching this video with a horse named Zelli who had never had her feet handled before coming to our farm! As far as possibly kicking the other horses, is it in a riding setting or in the barn? How close are they allowed to get to her?
-Julia Burdy, CRK Training Community Manager
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I recently have a new horse who is 14 yo & who I ‘ve had for a month now . I decided to revisit your videos to refresh & to become more aware of my new horse during our “get to know you” phase. What I do notice as far as a reward is he loves the verbal “good boy” and I pat his neck gently when he does what I ask. No matter what we are doing on the ground or in the saddle I can see his face light up when he is verbally rewarded. Thank you for your videos! I love learning with you!