Post by horseguy on May 27, 2016 16:03:29 GMT
Bob Wood
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CLINICS
Fundamental Horsemanship Clinic
The clinic teaches the rider how to have a more effective relationship with their horse. The rider learns to form a listen and lead connection with their horse. The point of this clinic is to move completely beyond any sense of being a "passenger" to becoming an effective partner with your horse. The goal is for the rider to recognize when they abandon leadership, how a horse responds to their abandonment, and how to recover leadership. Mutual awareness and connection with your horse using quiet but challenging exercises moves the rider beyond the semiconscious state of being a passenger and on a path to leadership and partnership.
Trail & Obstacle Clinic
This clinic teaches how to ask your horse to go over or through any obstacle you put in their path regardless of footing, slope or other conditions. Everyone, from experienced trail riders and fox hunters to beginners, learns something new in this clinic about terrain and trail obstacles.
Troubleshooting the Basic Challenges Clinic
This clinic teaches how to address the basic movements in riding such as transitions, collection, lead changes, stops, and more of the common sticking points in a horse's training by using clear simplified communication between the horse and rider, as well as specific advanced fundamental skills like learning to setup your horse up for success and ask correctly for what you want.
Developing a Unified Seat Clinic
This clinic teaches the knowledge and physical skills necessary to become the kind of rider your horse will want in his saddle. Understanding equine movement and the rider's movement in riding as a single unified motion is the key focus. By employing proper rider body alignment, balance and softness, along with the correct use of the aids, we become one with our horse. This is the unified independent seat. This clinic is dressage based but is appropriate for Western or English riders, and it applies to every equestrian sport. The purpose is for each rider and horse to move up to the next level of partnership focus and effectiveness by means of unified movement.
Jumping using the Fort Riley Military Seat Clinic
The Fort Riley Seat method is the most efficient and effective means of riding, having been perfected for battlefield use in the US Cavalry. It is the most secure and balanced seat, still in common use in fox hunting, polo and cross country jumping. This centered approach to jumping uses very simple steps to achieve a jumping position that feels and is far more secure than the common crest release. The Fort Riley Seat interferes less with the horse's natural movement in a jump and thus it creates a stability that permits safe riding and jumping over the most difficult terrain or in very challenging footing.
Advanced Fundamentals of the Fort Riley Military Seat Clinic
Military riding has its origins in dressage. Because mounted soldiers used weapons from the saddle, the majority of the rider communication with the horse is through the seat and leg aids. The clinic addresses the application of more complex and combined dressage principles to field or terrain riding, and it includes specific principles developed for optimum security, agility and efficiency that lead to a deeper more effective seat. Riders must qualify for this clinic with a video or observed ride.
Beginner Polo Clinic
A fun clinic that introduces the basic rules, team member positions, and safety. It teaches the basic shots, defense, teamwork and rhythm of the game. Horse work includes desensitization, socialization, and movement that improves any horse with the game's flow and focus. It is also one of the best ways to get boys interested in riding. Participants must bring a broom to the clinic as their “mallet”. Large beach type balls are used in the clinic.
Learning to Fox Hunt Clinic
Teaches the etiquette, attire, safety and structured process of the fox hunt. Includes pre-hunt preparation, field riding techniques, correct terminology, and the hunt's expectations of a new hunt rider. A well rounded summary of how to begin to fox hunt.
Starting a Young Horse Clinic
Teaches how to experience a young horse's curiosity, impulses, fears and behaviors in a way that encourages safe physical communication. Understanding control points, primary commands, and boundaries are taught along with relationship skills. Uses traditional techniques like stall "backing" and basic ground work to gentle the horse and make him safe in preparation for riding.
Bits and Bitting Seminars
A dismounted clinic on the use, action and design of bits. Clinic covers the seven bit pressure points that effect a horse and what the effects are on each point as well as the combined pressure points found in some bits. Clinic provides a basis for measuring or estimating the severity of a bit's design. Bits are for balance, not for brakes.