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Title: DANCING WITH HORSES by Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling ISBN: 1-57076-184-1 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dancing With Horses
Comment: I am a former member of the USET 3-Day Team with my horse, The Gray Goose. This book is phenomenal, and is the missing link between natural horsemanship and classical dressage.. Klaus's techniques were learned from Spanish monks who kept alive the traditions of training from the Knights Templar. He emphasizes the person's responsibility in training their horses, and gives clear, consise instructions about how to achieve leadership with horses while maintaining their wonderful spirit and personality. Exercises for both horse and rider are given to achieve oneness in handling and riding, and the spiritual aspect of training is also covered. I have started my own horse over using these techniques, and the effects have been profound and dramatic. I highly recommend this book, and also his video tape of the same name.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Guide to Ground Work
Comment: I own a challenging horse, and have tried many different systems of ground work with her - Parelli, Lyons, Centered Riding, etc. All of them had some effect, but none have really changed her exciteable nature and dominant attitude.
After using some of the exercises in Dancing With Horses, my mare has a totally different attitude. She is much more submissive, much more trusting. It is remarkable.
The book is visually beautiful. The photographs are very helpful in demonstrating the exercises, and are very pretty. The instructions in the text are clear. The horses - and the author - are very handsome, so there are aesthetic benefits as well.
The author describes a certain exercise, and says it will have a profound effect on the horse. I'm accustomed to marketing hyperbole, so I read it, but took it with a grain of salt. And what he wrote was true. Doing that one exercise made an immediate difference in my horse's attitude.
I can't say enough good things about this book. I hope you'll buy it and reap the benefits.
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Happy trails.
Rating: 4
Summary: Be willing and open to new ideas!!
Comment: Dancing with Horses was a beautiful book and easy to implement during my training sessions, which were formally traditional. Although the wording could get a little hard for a beginner to follow... just do as he says and read the whole thing cover to cover before you start, then read it again upon starting a horse.
I have only just started using Klaus' teachings during my training of a 2 yr old Draft Horse gelding who was not only very nervous and untrusting of people, but also had no respect for fences or personal space. Obviously a very large and dangerous combination. Klaus has opened my eyes to my own errors during training. And the gelding is comming along nicely now. In retrospect I wish I had read Klaus' book before I began training a pushy Clydesdale mare using more traditional methods.She has proven to be more of a challenge than I had bargained for. However, it is interesting to see the diffrent results that have been achieved while training two diffrent horses at the same time, using two diffrent methods. Klaus' lessons are very versatile, straightforward and holistic. Every trainer has a diffrent method of training, that he learned from various other trainers. Klaus has an old world style that can be emplemented for *ANY* type or breed of horse.
Although I would like to hold my tounge regarding the marginal review given by one reader, I simply can't! Klaus doesn't state in his book that "hollow back" horses are useless and untrainable, nor does he pick on any particular breed in itself. He simply states the obvious. If your horse has a longer back, than his hieght allows,(like many english style horses have) then he'd better have VERY good muscle tone in order to avoid a "nose up, legs out" way of carrying himself. Obviously there are going to be bad apples in every bunch, and of course a shorter legged, shorter bodied horse can collect better than a longer more supple bodied horse, thats why quarter horses are built that way... (sometimes also to a disgusting extreeme), so that they can "get down on a cow." However, if your horse is too short to look over a jump, then lower your jump!! Or open your mind to other eventing avenues!! Quit thinking of "How YOU look", and consider for once your horses health. Open your mind... broaden your horizons. Implement the teachings of someone who obviously has success with something DIFFRENT.
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Title: Horses Never Lie: The Heart of Passive Leadership by Mark Rashid ISBN: 1555662498 Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Considering the Horse: Tales of Problems Solved and Lessons Learned by Mark Rashid, Ron Ball ISBN: 1555661181 Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Life Lessons from a Ranch Horse by Mark Rashid, Harry Whitney ISBN: 1555662838 Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: True Horsemanship Through Feel by Leslie Desmond, Bill Dorrance ISBN: 1585743216 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Tao of Equus: A Woman's Journey of Healing and Transformation Through the Way of the Horse by Linda Kohanov ISBN: 1577311825 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: 09 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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