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Questions for an Equine Law Practitioner # 3 
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By Julie I. Fershtman |
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| When we work with very young children, we keep our vocabulary simple because their understanding of spoken language is limited. A two-year-old child's vocabulary is much smaller than that of a four-year-old or a seven-year old. But by the time that child becomes a teenager, his or her vocabulary will number in the thousands of words.
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By Faith Meredith |
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| Longeing without stirrups can be a wonderfully useful tool to help riders learn to relax, ride in balance, and follow the motion of the horse as they work toward developing an independent seat.
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By Faith Meredith |
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| Let's review the sequence of communication skills a baby green horse learns in a horse-logical 'heeding' program. When he starts out, he doesn't have any kind of vocabulary for working with humans. We slowly introduce him to horse-logical body language pressures that are relieved when his feet move in the indicated direction. We want him to pay close attention to whatever we are doing or, in colloquial English, to 'pay heed.'
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By Ron Meredith |
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| Horse-logical heeding involves showing the horse new things that are only one step, or two at most, away from what he already understands. When we first start groundwork with a baby green horse, the primary goal of the horse's early lessons is not mastering a specific set of skills. Our primary goal is to develop a feeling of trust and camaraderie with the horse.
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By Ron Meredith |
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| Questions for an Equine Law Practitioner # 2
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By Julie I. Fershtman |
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| Questions for an Equine Law Practitioner # 1
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By Julie I. Fershtman |
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| Every time you work with your green horse, remind yourself that there's not just 'one way' things should happen when the two of you meet in an enclosed area the first few times. Every horse is going to react to your presence and the following pressures you use to begin your relationship a different way. It's your job to be observant of all of the body language the horse uses to tell you how he feels, what his emotional state is, so you can keep these first lessons as relaxed and rhythmic as possible.
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By Faith Meredith |
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| I've taken my baby green horse from knowing nothing about people or interacting with them up to the point where our pattern of interaction creates a feels in him that I'm safe to be with. Our pattern of interaction has shown him that I am not threatening and that I work in a horse-logical, rhythmic and relaxed way that allows him to be rhythmic and relaxed.
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By Faith Meredith |
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| As horses move up the training tree and riders move up the riding tree, one of the early skills that both must master is balance. Both must develop the correct muscles in order to carry themselves in balance and both must learn to maintain their own balance regardless of what their partner does. Until that happens, each will find balance issues a recurring theme as they progress through the various levels of their respective learning trees.
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By Faith Meredith |
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