Essential Horse Training Equipment

In the act of perfecting your equestrian skills don’t forget in your eagerness to put your talents into use to make sure that you have rationally laid out your training area and your tools to expedite easy access. Preparation for horse riding is like preparation for any sport, you want the right structure, the proper tools and the right training. You want a schedule to which you’re going to stick, and you want a set of progressive goals. As your abilities in horse riding grow, your requirements for land area might also grow: you are going to move from ground work on foot to mounted work, and that means small pens are now not going to be adequate.

Gradually, areas you’ll require include:

– A round yard of 22 ft;

– An arena or a fenced in area of 40 x 60 ft.:

– An open ground area of at least one acre;

– Massive, open areas appropriate for trail riding.

There’s no way of reading a horse’s thoughts, but I bet that if you managed to, you would find that every time you enter a barn with, say, 9 horses, you would hear them all exclaim something like, “Here comes number 10!” Horses have their own hierarchies, and the 9 horses in the barn would have already received their own rankings between number 1 and number 9. That leaves you with the obvious number 10.

Whether or not this is essentially true or not, you must keep 2 things in mind: you have got to ensure your pony knows you’re the chief, and you’ve got to impress it on him without resorting to any vicious measures. When your horse is pliant and accepting of your superiority, your training and riding sessions will go thru with great smoothness. Your horse is relaxed and enjoying the sessions, and so are you. Obviously you know your work outs with your horse are a hit when you both look forward to the next session as soon as one is done with.

Horses that have issues adjusting to bridles and bits sometimes respond much better to ‘natural’ Hackamores. Hackamores are not nearly as harsh as bits, and when you use hackamores, horses relax, their tensions with their rigidity originating from the bit disappearing and they are more eager to get to work.

You want to get very well versed with the hackamore and its uses, and you need to become adept at its use in the yard before you attempt using it on trail rides.

Essential coaching tools you’ll need include:

– A knotted natural type halter, like those manufactured by Nungar Knots;

– A natural type hackamore, including reins;

– A snaffle bit of the loose ring joint type, preferably with a sweet iron bit;

– A simple bridle without Cavesson and without nose band (effective coaching does not need them);

– Reins for sportsmen;

– Lead ropes of 12 ft and 22 ft.

The ropes of 12 and 22 feet help distance responses from your pony and also permit him to move away if frightened, without losing his connection to you. All of the tools mentioned here facilitate easy communication with the pony without compromising comfort. Simple communication is the pillars around which effortlessness of equestrian abilities are built.

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