Articles with the Tag Variety

Training Tip: Challenge your Connection

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Once you have a good connection with your horse can you try connecting in different ways?

Why not try sitting down the whole session or standing up on something (stay safe or at liberty for this one) or get longer and longer ropes for distance work. If you are only used to using a 12′ line then try a 22′ one and if you use a 22′ line then maybe try finding a longer one. I know that once my own connection got better on longer ropes my Liberty work was better too.

Testing things is a great way to bring in variety to your play sessions and a great imagination is good too.

  • Shelley – HorseSavvy

 

 

Training Tip: Consistency vs Variety

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“Consistency is a great teacher BUT Variety is the spice of life”

Solly in the pics is circling with jumps. When I stand still he can jump two jumps on that circle = Consistency.
When I start walking doing ‘moving circles’ we go to the next jump up = Variety.

We can stand still or move depending on whether I want to give him either consistency or variety…change his direction and we can get both of those on the other side too…great opportunity for fitness training too 🙂

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  • Shelley – HorseSavvy