Horsemanship
Wouldn't it be great to ride a horse that is more interested in you than eating?
It really isn't complicated. It doesn't require expensive equipment or obscure procedures. It doesn't need years of training, for either of you. You don't need to be strong, or tall, or even ride every hour of every day.
The next step "up" isn't complicated either. A horse that needs only the slightest indications to offer the gait, speed, movement or direction that you'd like.
Contrary to popular belief you don't need a special horse, or at least not more special than the one you probably already have.
Everyone knows that any horse can walk, trot, and canter, but even more contrary to popular belief, pretty much any horse do lateral movements, flying changes, piaffe, passage, canter straight out of a backup or stop immediately from a canter. How far do you want to go?
Even more surprisingly the ways to get to these things aren't even particularly "secret", hundreds of years of knowledge is available to us, and funnily enough those "old dead guys" had some very useful stuff to say. Oddly enough most people know so little of what's been written that they're unaware that there are quick results to be had that can also lead on to a lifetimes experimentation and fun and learning.
Of course the problem with what¡s written, old as well as new, is that any spoken language doesn't quite match the language of touch that we need to communicate well with a horse. The literature can be more confusing than helpful if you haven't felt what they're talking about, which might explain why so few people are teaching the lightness and ease of good horse riding.
How do »natural« & »classical« fit into this? Well read on...
