ADVENTURES OF ME & G: May 2011

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Fun with Liberty

I have realized that lately I haven't spent as much time working with G on the ground as I used to. I've missed it. I'm not so sure G has, but it goes a long way in keeping the lines of communication open and learning. For both of us. I bought a new camera recently so I thought what better way to test it out - video! Hubby was sweet enough to come with me to run the camera. Love having a supporting guy in my life! The 35 minute video has been broken into two shorter segments. One shows the magnetic connection when it's working, and then when the magnetic connection is lost. There's nothing fancy or showy, it's just the beginning stages of our liberty work. I just picked up Caroyn Resnick's Liberty Training DVD, which I hope will help me go to the next level with this.

The connection...

Magnetic Connection

Losing and regaining it

Horse(wo)man Quotes

True Horsemanship
Is A Place Of Being,
Before A Means
Of Doing
-Elizabeth Graves

The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and fire. ~ Sharon Ralls Lemon

There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it. ~ Author Unknown

They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. ~ Ben Johnson

If you horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong. ~ Pat Parelli

A horse doesn't care how much you know until he knows how much you care. ~ Pat Parelli

The rider needs to recognize the horses' need for self-preservation in Mind, Body and third factor, Spirit...he needs to realize how the persons approach can assure the horse he can have his self-preservation and still respond to what the person is asking him to do. ~ Tom Dorrance

A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities. ~ Nuno Oliveira

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. ~ Daisetsu Suzuki

Before you ever start to reach to ask your horse to do something you should have in mind what you are asking and where you are trying to direct. ~ Tom Dorrance

Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him. ~ Nuno Oliveira

Excellence is an art won by training and habitation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but rather we have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

ADVENTURES OF ME & G

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Fun with Liberty

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