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Key Concepts: Closely related to They Need to Know The Answer, you cannot use a tool that you don’t have. Further to that, you can’t…

Key Concepts: Very few exercises, when training, are standalone events.  Most require 2 or more basics to be done at the same time. This principle…

Key Concepts: Every good thing that your horse learns is through anticipation. Every bad thing that your horse learns is through anticipation. If you want your horse to anticipate something, do it…

Key Concepts: You are trying to teach our horse to respond well to subtle cue at the beginning. Your horse will only be as soft as your…

Key Concepts: You can also think of this principle as “Only Ask Your Horse YES Questions.” By the time you ask a horse to do…

Key Concepts Horse training is like a video game.  Video games are set up to have you practice the basics, to teach you how to…

Key Concepts Horses are energy conservers – and remember they learn from the release of pressure They are always looking for the release of pressure…

Key Concepts: The goal of training horses is to get every horse physically and mentally balanced – right in the middle Most horses fall into…

This course was made during the making of Season 2 of The Principles of Training.  Since the making of Season 1, my philosophy regarding the…

Key Concepts One of the best pieces of relationship advice is “Don’t go to bed angry” it means that if there is any tension built…

Often times people take this principle as “make the wrong thing hard”, and they forget the other half of it. I like to look at…

If you have a new horse that hasn’t been handled a lot or is wild and completely unhandled. You can do the Connection with Change…

Is your horse moving away because they are slightly distracted or unaware or anxious? OR because they are concerned about you? You could use Matching…

Standing Still, But… Here is what you will do if your horse is standing still, but your horse is looking like he’s gone internal or…