Filling in the Training Gaps
Mark Rashid has made a name for himself by interweaving principles of the martial arts into his horse training and his teaching. A second-degree black belt in Yoshinkan aikido, he...
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Pain and Patience: Befriending My Father’s Horse
This article was supposed to be a new installment in my Liberty Training for Amateurs series, however, I've been consumed by a terrible tragedy. My father, avid equestrian James P....
Haunted By X’s and O’s
Horse people know the kind of body language horses use to mean “Go away!” A pinned ear, a lifted head, a shift of the hip or a hind leg lifted...
Why Are You Yelling?! A Better Way to Talk to Your Horse
Most of us recognize that horses communicate with each other via body language, but did you know that you can learn his “words” and “phrases” and use them with horses...
Hearing Your Horse Through the Noise
Today, for the first time in my life as a riding instructor, I asked my students to consider what should be the most fundamental question: What does your horse need...
