Demonstrations
Paul will introduce the art of feel through a collection of global concepts in horsemanship applied to real world problem solving. The skills will be demonstrated by directly helping troubled horses and owners with common issues and vices, i.e. hard to catch horses, leading and pullback problems, trailering issues, bridling and bitting, saddling, mounting, lead changes, collection braces, refusing jumps or water crossing bridges and dealing with other obstacles one might encounter, spookiness, rearing bucking, kicking/striking, feet issues such as being hard to trim or shoe, impulsion, and barn sour issues.
Colt Starting/Problem Solving Class: Introduction to the Art Feel
This class will teach you about catching horses in a way that is fitting for the horse, introduction to haltering and leading with class, building your horses confidence in you by helping them deal with objects or situations that activate the self-preservation instinct. You will cover saddling, bridling, and riding; learning to read when a horse is ready mentally and emotionally for this step. The participants will also learn to deal with common behavior issues that stem from a communication gap between horse and human, i.e. spooky/pull back horses, hard to bridle, hard to trim or shoe, pushing through the leg or bridle, refusing jumps or water crossing and other obstacles, spooky barn sour, trailer loading, striking/kicking, biting, rearing, and bucking.
Ranch Roping and Cow Working Class
This class introduces the horse and rider to a style of roping and handling cattle that will benefit all disciplines of horsemanship. This clinic covers everything from doctoring cattle on the ranch, gathering and shipping large herds of cattle that have not been handled by horses, arena roping, fixing hot horses, box problems, rating cattle, working cow horse and cutting horse foundations, penning and sorting, learning to read, sort and drive cattle getting a better cow handle on a horse. Slick horn or rubber, 30' ropes or 60' this class is a mixture of vaquero style big loop roping and arena timed event styles.
Intermediate Horsemanship: Understanding the Art of Feel
Paul will be introducing the art of feel through the sense of touch. This art involves moving the horse’s feet with your hands, with the lead rope, snaffle connection down to the feet and through the mind. The collection and straightness of a horse is a state of mind. They have to be soft, collected, and straight mentally before it can be transferred to the feet. Lead changes and flying changes are introduced in a herd setting, thus imitating the natural impulsion and freeness of flying changes in a natural setting. You will learn to create a state of mind within the horse where they would rather be with you than anywhere else, creating a herd of two.
Uniting four hooves and two minds ™