Boomer Learns The Pattern
We’ll take a fairly green 5yo and you can watch him learn to use himself through the pattern. We’ll discover things that need help and things that are already working great!
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Boomer Day 1 on the Barrels
Boomer goes to the pattern!
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Boomer Day Two on the Barrels, 9/6/2023
Where we start and where we end matters. Give your horse the room to stay forward and free and as they learn and become stronger you can take the room away! But you have to start somewhere!
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Boomer Day 3 on the barrels 9/7/23
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Boomer - 9/20/2023
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Boomer 9/21/2023
Short Serpentines, Driving from behind, a soft feel, and the reach!
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Boomer, Day 6 on the barrels, Part 1.
Here’s where we are!
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Boomer, Day 6 on the barrels 9/19/2023 Part 2
A phone call interrupted us, so here we go to the pattern. Day 6.
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Boomer, Day 7 on the barrels 9/25/23
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Boomer, Day 8 on the barrels 9/26/23
Figure 8s, one barrel, loping uniform circles
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Boomer 10/3/2023 Day 9 on the barrels
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Boomer 10/4/2023 Day 10 on the barrels
Working on moving out, giving more room in the pattern to help him learn to stay forward.
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Day 11, Boomer on the Barrels, 10/6/2023
Another day of developing Boomer on the pattern - helping him learn to stay forward and not be so buddy sour/gate sour.
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Boomer on the Fence
I teach all my horses to pick me up from the fence. It’s a safe way to get on and helpful if you’ve got a tight back, or flexibility issues. Further, it always lets you know if you’re horse is tuned into your not. When they’re tuned into you and “understand the assignment”, when you climb the fen...
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Boomer, Day 12 on the barrels 10/10/2023
We struggled hard core today. See how we work through them.
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Boomer Day 13, 10/14/2023
Really made good improvement today. He’s kind of looking like a barrel horse here!
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Boomer Day 14 (10/16/23)
Troubled about the cows. How we work through it.
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Boomer, 10/17/23, Day 15 and The 4 Barrel Drill
the 4 barrel drill, Day 14 on the “pattern” for boomer- and today of course we didn’t work the pattern but we did stay forward, free through our feet and learned a LOT!
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Boomer Day 16 (10/30/23)
Day 16 on the barrels. New mic so I apologize for the bad sound quality!