Horsemanship Foundation Clinic - Level 1

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Horsemanship Education Courses

Whether you wish to train horses professionally or simply enrich your personal knowledge, our Horsemanship Education Courses offer an exciting challenge. Bob and Suzanne work personally with every participant from start to finish! We offer these intensive courses at Two as One Ranch in Middletown, New York. The complete program includes three separate, two-week sessions Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm, of instruction with sufficient duration between sessions in order to ensure adequate time to hone your skills.

The cost of the courses is $1,350 per week, and you can either bring your own horse or use one of ours.

Don’t let high fuel prices stop you from following your dreams of becoming a better horseman!

Those who register and confirm your spot with the required $250 per week deposit (nonrefundable) by January 1, 2009, pay only $1000 per week. That's right- you'll save $350 per week by acting now! Don't miss this one time offer!

For those of you who seek to become horse trainers of the highest caliber with professional credentials, Bob and Suzanne offer the ProTrack™ Horse Trainer Certification Program. Please go to the ProTrack page for more info!

Benefits of our Horsemanship Education Courses

1. You will be able to confidently train horses to go either Western or English.
2. You'll learn many new horse training skills, strategies and techniques that will provide you with the ability to work with a whole spectrum of horses and their training needs.
3. Your equitation will improve, allowing you to better enhance a horse's balance and movement as his training progresses through the walk, trot and canter.
4. You will learn the most efficient, effective techniques, allowing you to train more horses in less time.
5. You will learn better ways to stay SAFE and reduce your risk, as well as the risk to the horses in your care, in this high-risk vocation/avocation.
6. Your feel and timing will develop to a whole new level af accuracy and precision.
7. You will learn how to use our unique Two as One Horsemanship techniques to analyze the behavior of horses in training, and make well- informed judgment calls, targeting exactly what holes in the horse's training need to be filled in order to make progress.
8. You will be able to diversify your training abilities from training horse to saddle to resolving specific challenges including trailer loading issues, bolting, fear and anxiety, aggression, resistance and more.
9. Flexible timeframe... take it all in one year, or spread it out over several years, as your schedule allows!

Horsemanship Education Course: Groundwork and Round Pen Training

This two-week ground training course may be taken independently, or as part of the complete course and consists of all aspects of groundwork. You will be taught to use the horse's natural characteristics to teach the following:

Round Pen Work: Teaches the horse to focus on you, start under saddle, break bad habits, or adjust attitude to become a willing partner.

Spook Training: Teaches the horse to stop his feet and look at whatever is scaring him, rather than spinning around or bolting away

V.S.S. A "Very Special Safety" lesson, which teaches directional control on the lead rope, to stand quietly, to respect your space, not to run into or over you and to develop the horse's attention span.

Trailer Loading: To teach the horse to go into the trailer safely and calmly and to unload in a slow, relaxed manner.

Sacking out: Desensitizes the horse to all the things that he will encounter on a daily basis; your hands, blankets, bridles, saddles, ropes etc.

Also - you will learn how to teach halter breaking, advanced leading, first time
mounting, what to do on your first rides, getting the horse comfortable with a rider, and more…

Horsemanship Education Course: Basic Under Saddle Training

All aspects of a horse's basic "under saddle" education will be addressed in this session. This includes how to develop balance, control and suppleness at the walk, trot and canter, lateral work, introduction to trails and trail obstacles, and much more. You will learn Bob & Suzanne's Two as One Horsemanship methods of gaining control of the horse's individual body parts enabling you to teach directional control, giving to the bit and direct reining, stopping, go cue, backing, etc. Suzanne will introduce points of equitation and Centered Riding® which improve your equestrian technique, balance, quality of communication and control with lots of supportive feedback and specific exercises to improve effectiveness.

Horsemanship Education Course: Advanced Under Saddle Training

This is where our "trail safe" horse begins the transformation to "performance level horse". You shall learn techniques to teach more balanced cantering, circles, leads, leg and seat cues, collection, neck reining (if desired), side passing, correct backing, advanced stops, turns on forehand, spins or turns on the haunches, and more sophisticated lateral work. Suzanne will teach more in-depth Centered Riding® instruction to enhance performance and cut your training time. The program is easily adaptable to either English or Western Riding.

Upon completion of all three sessions you will be a graduate of our program. We also offer our additional ProTrack courses for those individuals interested in becoming candidates for certification.

The cost of the program is $1,350 per week, and you can either bring your own horse or use one of ours. A negative Coggins (drawn within the 12 months prior to the sessions being) attended is required for admittance. A limited number of participants are accepted in order to maintain a small teacher/student ratio allowing for personalized instruction.
Significant discounts are available for early bird registration !

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