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    Ground Up; Connecting Groundwork with Ridden Work for you and your Horse
    Ground Up; Connecting Groundwork with Ridden Work for you and your Horse
    Ground Up; Connecting Groundwork with Ridden Work for you and your Horse
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    Ground Up; Connecting Groundwork with Ridden Work for you and your Horse

    By Justine Rumney

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    Connecting Groundwork with Ridden Work for you and your Horse gives you a series of exercises that will connect the trusting, respectful relationship that you and your horse have created on the ground to your ridden work. It works in companion with “Leading Light; an Introduction to Groundwork for You and Your Horse”, and for the best understanding of the exercises in this book you may find it useful to become familiar with these ground exercises.
    Many of the exercises may sound very obvious, hardly worth spending time on, and for many horses this is exactly their experience of the human world. We do not take time and care over the small, obvious tasks but rush past them until we get to big things. Unfortunately, this can be when things fall apart and we are at a loss to understand what went wrong. Groundwork is where we establish a relationship of trust and respect, these exercises are a guide to caring for that relationship so that once we start to ride it is still there for us, strong and reliable.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustine Rumney
    Release dateMay 10, 2015
    ISBN9781311623843
    Ground Up; Connecting Groundwork with Ridden Work for you and your Horse
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    Justine Rumney

    Justine Rumney lives and works in North Cumbria, UK. She runs a start and re-schooling yard taking young horses for start to ride & foundation, and horses that have got into difficulties for re-schooling. She also takes in horses that are donated to her because the owner can no longer care for them or because their behaviour has become too dangerous for their owners to manage. She starts or re-schools these horses until she finds an appropriate new owner for them. Much of her training took place in the USA where she worked with young & troubled horses. She learnt many cowboy & vaquero techniques, which she brought back to the UK and applied to British horses and horsemanship. Justine started to make her own rope equipment because she found it so difficult to find a good quality product in the UK. Alongside this she identified that, even though people were becoming increasingly interested in the halter & line as a practical everyday training tool there was not a lot of information about how to use them effectively. “Every tool is only as good as the hands that use it.” Justine passionately believes in education as being the most important aspect of improvement of animal welfare in the equine sector.

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      Ground Up; Connecting Groundwork with Ridden Work for you and your Horse - Justine Rumney

      About Justine Rumney

      Introduction

      This book gives you a series of exercises that will connect the trusting, respectful relationship that you and your horse have created on the ground to your ridden work. It works in companion with Leading Light; an Introduction to Groundwork for You and Your Horse, and for the best understanding of the exercises in this book you may find it useful to become familiar with these ground exercises.

      Many of the exercises may sound very obvious, hardly worth spending time on, and for many horses this is exactly their experience of the human world. We do not take time and care over the small, obvious tasks but rush past them until we get to big things. Unfortunately, this can be when things fall apart and we are at a loss to understand what went wrong. Groundwork is where we establish a relationship of trust and respect, these exercises are a guide to caring for that relationship so that once we start to ride it is still there for us, strong and reliable.

      Ground Up; Connecting Groundwork with Ridden Work for you and your Horse will not instruct you in creating a dressage horse, or show jumper, cutter or reining horse. It offers a guide in the foundation of all horses, the bricks that begin to build the amazing creation that is the horse at work. This book is not about the finishing touches it is about the beginning, the start. It is not, however, a guide to starting your own horse. I highly recommend that you seek professional help to start your horse to ride unless you have the experience & skill to attempt this yourself.

      This book is all about enjoying riding your horse safely so I make an assumption that you will wear the personal protective equipment (PPE) you believe to be essential. I think a riding hat and safe boots are the minimum, but you must decide for yourself what PPE is appropriate for you and your horse.

      Many of the illustrations in this book show western tack but these exercises are not specific to the western style of riding or tack. They are equally appropriate for a horse wearing english tack and ridden in an english style.

      Themes of Training

      The themes of training described in Leading Light; an introduction to groundwork for you and your horse apply to all the exercises here as well.

      Trust & Respect

      The two way street of trust and respect that keeps communication flowing

      Purpose

      Identify your responsibilities and your horse’s responsibilities, get on with them and allow your horse to do the same

      Effective aids

      Aids are to help & support, not to tell or instruct. Find ways to help and support your horse to achieve the goal through your help and support.

      Always Communicate

      Use every moment that you can to nurture your relationship of trust and respect with your horse, not just your formal ground work, or riding

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