I selected this picture for the duvet of my new ebook for a lot of causes. First, it’s merely a wonderful picture. I like the general steadiness, the roundness of Robin’s topline, the softness of the reins, the power and suspension, the settled consideration. However I additionally selected this picture due to the assertion it makes. Robin was twenty-seven when this picture was taken. He’s nonetheless in work. He’s nonetheless shifting superbly.
Steadiness is the central pillar round which I construct all my coaching. Steadiness issues to me as a result of I like my horses. I need them to be in my life for so long as potential, and I need them to have a superb high quality of life. Bodily steadiness and emotional properly being are woven collectively. Steadiness has all the time been a key ingredient, starting with the very first classes I taught Robin when he got here to me as a yearling. Clicker coaching has been with us each step of the best way. Fashionable Horse Coaching has been there all through his entire life.
The opposite horse featured on the duvet is Michaela Hempen’s Asfaloth. He’s additionally now in his twenties and nonetheless loving to play.
Asfaloth exhibits us how essential steadiness is.
Once you take a look at these two photographs it’s exhausting to consider it’s the identical horse. The picture on the left exhibits Asfaloth in his early teenagers when Michaela was simply starting to work with him.
A whole lot of horses stand like this so at first all you may even see is a gray Arab. No massive deal. However evaluate him to the picture on the proper and also you’ll start to a number of the early steadiness points. Take a look at his entrance legs. They’re angled again. If you happen to have been constructing a bridge, you wouldn’t need the assist columns to be angled again like this. He’s lengthy like a sausage. He’s falling ahead onto his forehand. On this steadiness, he wouldn’t be capable of produce the attractive suspension you see within the second picture.
A bridge or a home which is constructed on such crooked underpinnings isn’t going to final so long as one that’s constructed properly. Our horses present us that good steadiness carries them ahead into their senior years.
Michaela’s glorious coaching is featured all through my on-line clinics.
You possibly can examine her work at her web site: https://clickertrainingpferde.com/
