My MASTER HORSEMANSHIP EDUCATION PROGRAMME by Shane D. Olver – Master Horseman

Advanced Riding Techniques and Exercises;

Starting and re-educating horses of all breeds and disciplines.

The moment we handle or ride a horse, we become our horse’s coach, their trainer and they become our student.

As the horse’s coach, it becomes our responsibility to develop our skills as communicators and as teachers to gain the necessary knowledge and to prepare our horse both physically and mentally, for whatever discipline we are training our horse for.

Level one.

This training programme teaches you how to become your horse’s ‘coach’ and trainer. when you ride a horse, it will feel like a ‘dance’, both the rider and horse moving together, and once you are proficient using my training method it will become a beautiful dance with your horse.

Like dance partners, it is necessary to work within a frame; to be centered and balanced, to know where to put our feet, and also how to move our body. We learn this dance, step by step.

This training programme is designed to set  both of you up for success, to do that we need to do to build a strong foundation/bond, to have a solid base of knowledge that will support you to the elite level in whatever discipline you choose.

This training method is also designed to find the missing link in both you and your horse. The programme can then be improved and any sequence can be added to help you improve your horsemanship.

My training provides you with a step by step exercise programme, which prepares you and your horse for that first ride and for all future rides, no matter what the chosen discipline.

This training method provides you and your horse with the knowledge, skills and tools, to become braver, stronger and more confident with each ride which then in turn gives you the ability to solve problems and move forward to become a better horseman.

By using my training method you’ll develop safety features that will keep you safe.

It is necessary for the rider and their horse to be able to control their emotions and energy levels, to be able to think inside chaos, this is how we as riders gain our horse’s respect and become accepted as their teacher and leader.

To learn more about my training method and how the dance with your horse works, please see the video and link below, there you’ll also find my Vimeo ‘videos on demand’, there you can rent or buy them, also, I offer my 4 part video training series on high definition DVD’s for sale, they are available on my new updated website which will be available soon, or you can buy them now on ebay http://ow.ly/QsjcA …  if you wish the purchase the DVD’s earlier, then I have a special offer, just reply to this post and I’ll send you the special offer. I’ll let you know when my new website is available.

As always, I wish you all safe and happy riding, Shane

https://player.vimeo.com/video/36895979

Horse Training – Extensive Ground work

The same training as round yard, but with a halter and rope. It is usually on the ground that we the handler must take away the horses tools and replace them with a more powerful tool. Co-operation!.

The horse has a right to fight to keep his tools. The handler will have to have the knowledge, the skills and a strategy to deal with the horse’s aggressive or defensive behaviour. Most importantly, he has to have the ability to persuade and convince the horse that the new tools were are trying to provide him with will give him more power and influence with far less effort and provide a far more comfortable and healthier life with his human.

The ground work is a dance. Head position and foot work are the most important. Soft hands are most important. Soft wrists, elbows and shoulders.

Centring ourselves, understanding our own space and how we should position ourselves and move accordingly.

Understanding the space around the horse and how he moves in that space. The horse is constantly aware of our space and moves in or away accordingly. Understanding how a horses energy flows. Understanding that it is the horse’s mind that controls the direction and flow of his energy.

Understanding that it is it’s head position that allows free flowing energy or not. Understanding that we must help the horse develop his muscle structure to support the weight of his head. Once we, the handlers have taken away his tools and have the correct head position, we can show and pride to our horse that our training method will make life easier for him.

We can gain his respect. We can teach him that when collected he can back up easier, go forward easier, trot and canter easier, side pass, stop and go again with ease. We can free his mind allowing his feet to move freely as we ask.

All along his muscles are developing making all of the horse’s tasks easier and easier. We can teach our horses everything we may want of them as riders on the ground. We can teach our horses everything before we even ride them for the first time. All of the above means our horse’s mind has developed. He is in control of his fear. He is understanding the method, the communication between the horse and the handler is working and the horse is far more prepared to be ridden than at any other time in the history between horse and man.

NOTE – How we are or perform on the ground is how we ride.

I can tell by watching people with their horse on the ground how much knowledge they have and their ability to pass that knowledge on to their horse. But also, I can see how they would ride and what problems the horse will have and the riders contribution to the horse’s problems.

I’ll continue this tomorrow – Shane D. Olver

GIVING YOU AND YOUR HORSE THE COMPETITIVE CUTTING EDGE by Shane D. Olver – Master Horseman

How does Foundation Training improve a rider’s and their horses’ competitive edge?

The training program is for both the horse and the rider. Preparing both athletes for their sports activity both mentally and physically.

It’s a horse training program that picks up both the ability that the horse and rider have or don’t have in their training capabilities. The Foundation is built on giving the rider and horse a step by step structure and discipline to support all their future training aspirations and to assist in solving potential problems that may arise in the future.

The training program will provide the necessary exercises to work muscle structures which will allow the horse and rider to

The Horse:

• Can maintain correct head position giving lightness in the front end.
• Creating balance and centeredness.
• Giving more control of shoulders and hindquarters.
• Giving more impulsion.
• Our horse can be arranged and convinced to work in proper shape and frame.

We train our horses mind, not his mouth so our horse can comes to terms with the training method and becomes a willing partner, happily applying themselves to the task we ask of them.

The Rider and handler:

• We ask and expect our horse to change, to overcome his natural instincts. So too, the rider and handler must change equally, change and overcome some of their natural instincts.
• I haven’t met a rider or handler who doesn’t need to change their attitude and the way they think about themselves as a horsemen or horsewomen.
• It is up to the rider and handler to convince their horse that the training method will improve their horse’s life, both mentally and physically, which means a better deal has been offered to horse, one that empowers them, not enslaves them.

Through my Training Program, the rider and handler will learn:

• To change their human instincts and learn to let go – to overcome their fear.

• To learn and teach their horses how to think – to make them a 50-50 deal.

• To learn how to free up their bodies so as not to hinder their horses’ actions.

• To set their horse up for success, not Failure!

• To understand and improve the communication process between their horse and themselves.

• To improving their leadership skills which will earn their horse’s’ respect.

• Children demand that parents and adults be good leaders and if not they (the children) will take over. Our horses are the same.

• Horses respect leadership and will follow a good leader. If the rider or handler doesn’t lead because they don’t have the knowhow, their horse will take over and will do so without any thought for the humans feelings.

• A good leader knows how to allocate power in accordance to the team members’ skills and abilities with the end result being a united effort to obtain and fulfil goats.

To learn more about my training method and how the dance with your horse works, please see the video and link below, there on my VIMEO site you will find my ‘videos on demand’ training series, there you can buy or rent the training program as a download at a very reasonable price, also, I offer my series on high definition DVD’s for sale on ebay or my updated website which will be available soon…  if you wish the purchase the DVD’s earlier, then I have a special offer for you, just reply to this post and I’ll send you the offer. I’ll let you know when my new site is available.

As always, I wish you all safe and happy riding, Shane

STUDENTS OVERCOMING DEEP SEATED FEAR of HORSE RIDING by Shane D. Olver

The same training as round yard, but with a halter and rope. It is usually on the ground that we the handler must take away the horses tools and replace them with a more powerful tool. Co-operation!.

The horse has a right to fight to keep his tools. The handler will have to have the knowledge, the skills and a strategy to deal with the horse’s aggressive or defensive behaviour. Most importantly, he has to have the ability to persuade and convince the horse that the new tools were are trying to provide him with will give him more power and influence with far less effort and provide a far more comfortable and healthier life with his human.

The ground work is a dance. Head position and foot work are the most important. Soft hands are most important. Soft wrists, elbows and shoulders.

Centring ourselves, understanding our own space and how we should position ourselves and move accordingly.

Understanding the space around the horse and how he moves in that space. The horse is constantly aware of our space and moves in or away accordingly. Understanding how a horses energy flows. Understanding that it is the horse’s mind that controls the direction and flow of his energy.

Understanding that it is it’s head position that allows free flowing energy or not. Understanding that we must help the horse develop his muscle structure to support the weight of his head. Once we, the handlers have taken away his tools and have the correct head position, we can show and pride to our horse that our training method will make life easier for him.

We can gain his respect. We can teach him that when collected he can back up easier, go forward easier, trot and canter easier, side pass, stop and go again with ease. We can free his mind allowing his feet to move freely as we ask.

All along his muscles are developing making all of the horse’s tasks easier and easier. We can teach our horses everything we may want of them as riders on the ground. We can teach our horses everything before we even ride them for the first time. All of the above means our horse’s mind has developed. He is in control of his fear. He is understanding the method, the communication between the horse and the handler is working and the horse is far more prepared to be ridden than at any other time in the history between horse and man.

NOTE – How we are or perform on the ground is how we ride.

I can tell by watching people with their horse on the ground how much knowledge they have and their ability to pass that knowledge on to their horse. But also, I can see how they would ride and what problems the horse will have and the riders contribution to the horse’s problems.

I’ll continue this tomorrow – Shane D. Olver

Extensive Ground work – by Shane D. Olver Prt3

Whilst at a camp-draft, I had the opportunity to prepare her for her draft. Then all of a sudden, I realised who she was. I was then able to formulate a strategy to help her deal with her anxiety, when she pranced, she didn’t want to go fast. She wanted to go, wanted to do what the rider asked, but didn’t want to go forward into the future into the unknown and so her energy became stored and kept ready to go, thus the prancing.

I had to show her, explain to her it wasn’t necessary to produce so much energy. There was no real reason for her to feel threatened by her surrounding environment. We can only teach them this by letting go and exuding confidence and by raising her energy levels a little bit at a time, then re-tract the energy by doing the exercises to control her head position and body shape on a loose rein. Whether at a trot or canter, it doesn’t really matter. I cantered her around the camp keeping her on the fence through the shoulders on a loose rein using the head down cue. I then cantered her in and out of the camp and around the outside arena. All areas until she did it on a loose rein and with head down. Which means her confidence level had risen to a point where she might enjoy chasing a cow, which she did, for which she was an awesome horse.

A horse is reading us far more accurately than we are of them. Their language is reading of the body. Which is their most powerful tool for survival.

Allowing the horse to take responsibility for their behaviour. Self Elevation.

The groundwork tools and exercises will help us obtain the correct head position making it easier for the horse to go forward, backup, stop, side pass, walk, trot, canter etc whatever we ask for our horse head position is everything.

NOTE: we teach our horse to find and hold the correct head position helping or showing. The horse comes to realise and so begins the process where our horse takes responsibility for his actions and behaviour. A pathway to less resistance.

Should you like to follow my method, I have produced a series of 4 videos one of which showing you all the points that I have covered in these last 3 posts, I would recommend you look at them to see how you can bring out the confidence in your horse.

FYI, the bridle is a much better tool than the halter when beginning to train your horse.

happy riding, Shane

Extensive Ground work – by Shane D. Olver Prt2

The way we perform on the ground is identical to the way we ride. Ground work is learning how to dance. We then transfer the dance to the riding position. When we climb up onto the horse’s back, either for the first time or to introduce the new training to an already started horse, the horse will not have a clue about what we are going to do or ask of him. It is important as a horse trainer to know this.

The horse that is going to be ridden for the first time does not know he is going to be ridden especially for the rest of his life. If he did, he might complain a lot more. Also, sometimes a few weeks down the track, a horse may realise what is going on and put a buck in here or there.

The horse that is being re-educated is still to me like being ridden for the first time. And I will have to teach him the new method in the seat. This horse will only have memories of how he was last ridden. I will replace those memories with new ones. Gradually the new memories take over. That is how we fix up a problem horse.

All horses loose confidence once the handler steps up into the seat.

The horse doesn’t know that all the ground exercises he has learnt will become the same exercises with the handler in the seat.

The horse will struggle at first, but with knowledge and patience, he will soon come to understand that he knows what he is being taught. He will understand that if he listens to the rider, it is much easier for him to move and accomplish what is being asked of him.

The horse will say his way is best, especially the horse being re-educated. This horse will constantly try to tell you that his way is best. The rider has to have the knowledge and the skills to convince him that his ways are far more difficult using a lot more unnecessary energy and effort, not healthy for the wrong muscles are being worked and mentally frustrating for as the training progresses and it gets more complicated shape and form become more necessary.

Remember – most horses are lazy. We use this laziness to benefit us in our training.

The Foundation Training Method is a step by step approach. We can’t miss a step. We can add new steps in sequence as we are always being confronted with new problems that new horses bring to us. So we must work out how to solve these problems, gaining knowledge the best way we can.

If we miss a step, out future training will be effected and we will find some task just won’t come together. Eventually we are forced to back tract to find the missing step.

The training will flow, then stop. As a problem arises, we must solve that problem before we can move forward. Though this is the “power” of the “Foundation Training” creating a solid base of knowledge that will support us into the future.

Often a new problem can be solved by looking at the knowledge we already have in a different way. Often the difficulty of solving a problem can be due to the fact that we haven’t accurately worked out who the horse is (his true nature) because we may have decided too soon on his character. Once it come to us who our horse is, we will find we have the knowledge to solve the problem and move forward.

Sometimes, it may take me weeks to fully understand who a horse is eg: most recently, I have been helping my good friend train his cutting/camp-draft horse, taking them both through the method. The horse has been a joy. But she has a lot of anxiety and prances and wants to do everything in a rush (a year ago she was crazy)

Most horses who prance make the rider feel they want to bolt off so people hold them in. So I let them go and I teach the rider to let them go by teaching skills and exercises to deal with extra speed. With my friends mare, I thought that his previous owners had with plenty of spurs and ignorance ruined a beautiful minded horse.

Shane, Happy Riding…

Horse Training Videos on Demand

Hi horse lovers,

I have just produced a series of 4 videos on horse training, the first video covers getting a horse prepared for riding using ground work, this is the one of the most important steps in training your horse, and with master horseman Shane D. Olver teaching you this advanced training method, its easy to train the horse to think for it’s itself.

The second video covers using a round yard which is an important part of the process the round yard is a slightly more advanced stage, Shane shows you the important steps on how to train your horse his new training method and stay safe at the same time, this is a very powerful video to learn from.

The third video is the culmination of the other 2 videos and brings together all the techniques learned in the first 2 videos and shows you how the training helps the horse to think for itself, this video is very informative and helps both the experienced rider and the novice see the potential of Shane’s techniques at work, its a powerful experience resource.

the fourth Video is on float loading, one of the most important parts of horse training, if you can’t load the horse onto a float safely then you are restricted to riding your horse in one place, this reduces the wonderful rides you will potentially miss out on, Shane’s message here is simple load your horse safely, take him out and have fun.

This Video on Demand series is available for sale individually or as a set of 4 videos you can also rent each video individually or as a set, the options are endless.

here is a link to the Vimeo site… https://vimeo.com/ondemand/shanedolver

Horse Training – Extensive Ground work

The same training as round yard, but with a halter and rope. It is usually on the ground that we the handler must take away the horses tools and replace them with a more powerful tool. Co-operation!.

The horse has a right to fight to keep his tools. The handler will have to have the knowledge, the skills and a strategy to deal with the horse’s aggressive or defensive behaviour. Most importantly, he has to have the ability to persuade and convince the horse that the new tools were are trying to provide him with will give him more power and influence with far less effort and provide a far more comfortable and healthier life with his human.

The ground work is a dance. Head position and foot work are the most important. Soft hands are most important. Soft wrists, elbows and shoulders.

Centring ourselves, understanding our own space and how we should position ourselves and move accordingly.

Understanding the space around the horse and how he moves in that space. The horse is constantly aware of our space and moves in or away accordingly. Understanding how a horses energy flows. Understanding that it is the horse’s mind that controls the direction and flow of his energy.

Understanding that it is it’s head position that allows free flowing energy or not. Understanding that we must help the horse develop his muscle structure to support the weight of his head. Once we, the handlers have taken away his tools and have the correct head position, we can show and pride to our horse that our training method will make life easier for him.

We can gain his respect. We can teach him that when collected he can back up easier, go forward easier, trot and canter easier, side pass, stop and go again with ease. We can free his mind allowing his feet to move freely as we ask.

All along his muscles are developing making all of the horse’s tasks easier and easier. We can teach our horses everything we may want of them as riders on the ground. We can teach our horses everything before we even ride them for the first time. All of the above means our horse’s mind has developed. He is in control of his fear. He is understanding the method, the communication between the horse and the handler is working and the horse is far more prepared to be ridden than at any other time in the history between horse and man.

NOTE – How we are or perform on the ground is how we ride.

I can tell by watching people with their horse on the ground how much knowledge they have and their ability to pass that knowledge on to their horse. But also, I can see how they would ride and what problems the horse will have and the riders contribution to the horse’s problems.

I’ll continue this tomorrow – Shane D. Olver

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