Horsemanship Basics & Beyond Answers
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What did my friend Peter say was the key to acquiring Knowledge and Wisdom?
Desire
2) What are 2 causes of negative emotions when working with horses?
A) Something you are not prepared for happens
B) You are not sure how to handle a situation
3) Can you fill in the blanks?
“Horsemanship, is the ability to help horses exist in a human world
without loosing their Spirit or Dignity.
4) What are the 3 stages of learning?
1. You didn’t know, you didn’t know
2. You now know, you didn’t know
3. You now know that you know
5) Your final reward will be heartache and tears if you have cheated who?
The man in the glass
6) What is the language horses use to communicate with each other based on?
Pressure and Release of Pressure
7) What is something that is very closely connect to “feel”?
Compassion
8) What do we want to reward our horses for when teaching them something?
The Yield of Understanding
9) What is the mythological creature that is half man half horse called?
A Centaur
10) In the gait the walk, which is the next foot to move after the right front?
The Left Hind
11) What are 2 different ways you could ride the trot?
The Sitting trot
Or the Rising/Posting trot
12) How would you describe a “crossfire”?
A horse that is Cantering on one lead in the front legs, and the other in hind legs
13) When a horse is cantering on the left lead which foot strikes the ground first?
The Right Hind
14) Can you fill in the blanks?
“The Aids purpose is to Help the horse seek the “Cue”,
And the Cue’s purpose is to help the horse Avoid the “Aids”.
15) When is a “Cue” truly understood?
When the Aid is no longer needed.
16) What are 2 different reward strategies?
+R and -R
17) Your leg’s can be used as an aid to help your horse move forward and also what other 2 things?
Disengage their Hind Quarters and Engage their Hind Quarters
18) Which rein aid can help you teach your horse to move their shoulders away from the bend?
The Rein of Opposition
19) Which rein aid can help you teach your horse to follow their nose?
The Open Rein
20) Which rein aid is responsible for letting your horse know they did the right thing?
The Neutral Rein
21) Which maneuver can help you teach your horse to go through gates?
The Leg Yield
22) Which maneuver can help you teach lead departures to your horse?
Travers/Haunches In
23) When travelling in a straight line, what is the difference between a Shoulder In and a Counter Shoulder In?
Where the Wall is
24) How many tracks is the Half Pass?
2
25) What is the English terminology for the maneuver Haunches out?
Renvers
26) What is my “cue” to back up my horses?
Shift my weight back
27) Can you name 3 lateral aid maneuvers?
1.The turn on the forehand
2.The turn on the haunches
3.The leg yield
28) What are 2 characteristics of the California Bridle horse that caught my attention?
Vertical Flexion and Collection
29) What is the exercise called I learned from a 17th century Classical Dressage Master?
Legs without Hands, and Hands without Legs
30) What skill could we learn from an orchestra’s conductor that could help us lunge our horses?
How to increase our energy and to decrease our energy
31) What 2 things are we looking for when performing the belt exercise?
1.Lateral Flexion
2.The horse not moving their feet
32) Which exercise is great for introducing the Counter Canter to your horse?
The Peanut exercise.
33) What are some benefits to teaching your horse the “leg yield down the wall” exercise?
Leadership, desensitization,and lateral softening
34) What should you be careful to avoid when working on exercises in regard’s to being happy?
Destination Addiction
35) What is the rhyme that helps you trot on the correct diagonal?
“Rise and fall with the front leg on the wall”
36) What is a wish with a date on it?
A Goal
37) Once you have written down a goal, what are you telling the universe about that goal?
That the Goal is important to YOU!
38) What lesson did I learn from a Deer Fly?
When asking for a Lateral Flexion precede the Rein Aid with the Leg Aid
39) What concept did I learn on a horse sized teeter totter?
I learned the awareness of my “Core” and how little I actually has to move it to affect my balance and my horse’s. I also learn how to use my “Core” as a “Cue”.
40) What do you enjoy most about working with and riding horses?
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