Groundwork Training for Your Horse

Improve your horse's suppleness, obedience and education from the ground. Learn how to tune in to the subtle body language of the horse and communicate in a clearer way. Includes: Intelligent Horsemanship, Parelli, Long-reining, Think Equus, Lungeing, Positive Horse Magic, TTEAM, In-hand work. Book jacket.

Introduction	p. 4
Know Your Horse	p. 8
Basic Handling Techniques
What you need	p. 10
The importance of touch	p. 12
Learn through feel	p. 14
Field manners	p. 15
Stable manners	p. 16
Leading	p. 18
Respecting each other's space	p. 19
Desensitizing	p. 20
Preparing for Groundwork
Physical and mental fitness	p. 24
Assessing your horse's movement	p. 26
Stretches and suppling exercises	p. 28
Massage	p. 30
Shiatsu	p. 32
TTEAM bodywork	p. 34
Groundwork in Practice	p. 38
Understanding Equus
The origins of Join-Up	p. 42
Intelligent Horsemanship
Foundation exercises	p. 44
The Join-Up process	p. 50
Passive Leadership
Considering the horse	p. 60
Equine Communication
The power of positive thought	p. 62
Natural Horse, Man, Ship
Using horse psychology	p. 66
The seven games	p. 68
Think Equus
A non-confrontational approach	p. 80
The key elements	p. 82
Positive Horse Magic
Positive reinforcement	p. 88
Clicker training	p. 90
TTEAM
Equine awareness	p. 92
Confidence builders	p. 94
Co-ordination improvers	p. 96
Chest-line driving	p. 102
Lungeing
The great debate	p. 106
Fitting the equipment	p. 108
Techniques for good lungeing	p. 110
Lungeing exercises	p. 114
Training aids	p. 119
Long-reining (long-lining)
Why long-rein?	p. 126
Long-reining techniques	p. 128
In-hand Work
Learning the skill	p. 134
Preparation and basic skills	p. 136
Advanced skills	p. 142
Help Yourself - Help Your Horse	p. 148
Further Information/ The Trainers	p. 150
Index	p. 151
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