3 Lessons from Training Mustangs
This past week I was in Lompoc, California, working with mustangs. Working with these intelligent, quick learning, and open horses is always a pleasure. And I always learn something new
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The “Right” Way to Train?
What is the “right” way to train? How do you know what is best for you and your horse when there are so many methods taught – many good but…
What Could You Learn by Observing Your Horse?
I have a little challenge for you today… In most of our interactions with our horses, we focus on what they can and will do for us. We want to…
Helping a Barn or Buddy Sour Horse Become Calm
Horses are social animals. They thrive in groups and with companionship. A horse’s instincts tell him that leaving the others is a possible threat to his very survival. Unfortunately, in…
Basic Leading Skills for Safety
An unruly horse on the ground can be intimidating, frustrating, and potentially indicative of more problems in the saddle. Whether it is pulling ahead to walk faster, swinging their head…
When “Quick Fixes” Make a Training Problem Worse
We are a culture who loves quick fixes and easy solutions. With all that competes for our attention, a promise of a problem solved is attractive. Quick fixes do exist.…
The Art of Leading
I first met Andrea Wady after leaving Christmas day to fly to Costa Rica, taking a four hour bus ride to her town, staying in a local hostel for a…
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I signed up for the Balanced Riding course after watching Callie on YouTube. I’ve learned so much from this course. As you start riding when you’re young, you learn the fundamentals, but then you drift so far away from them in different skills that you’re learning that you sometimes kind of forget or don’t appropriately utilize those fundamentals anymore. And she’s really brought me back to that level of understanding specifically how to ride with the seat. And I think that’s kind of the most powerful thing you can learn to do as a rider, is to sit your horse appropriately, not have to rely so much on your reins. So that’s been huge, just completely changed the way I ride.
I just want to say thank you to everyone for all the comments and positive comments I have read while on this site. I have taken many of the free courses offered by CRK training over the past few months and it has help with my confidence. I actually rode my daughter’s horse for the first time outside in the ring since she came home from a free lease September. I have practiced many of the lessons and watched many videos. It was just at a walk but I felt confident with every thing I have learnt so far, plus I have learnt that I am not the only one who gets nervous and that it is okay to be nervous and thanks to Callie’s lessons I have learnt to take one day at a time and work though the times I feel nervous.
As a new horse owner and rider I wanted a training series that would walk me through each step of equitation for a beginner. That is exactly what I got with the CRK Balanced Rider Series. Callie King is a talented horse trainer and accomplished rider and it shows through each of her videos. She is clear and concise when discussing her insider knowledge of horse care, training, and riding.
As with all of the work Callie does, this program is informative, thoughtful, evidence based. The course provides good resources on horsemanship, managing fear, developing confidence. The videos of “how to” help your horse manage his fear were particularly good (in that) helping my horse manage moments of fear, helps me to manage mine.
This is why I so enjoy your videos and webinars. Your approach is so positively based and therefore so kind and gentle while still being very effective. You work with the horse and not against him.
THANK YOU!
