Horsemanship Skills
Do you want to enhance your relationship with your horse and improve performance? I'm here to help you with positive reinforcement (R+), liberty training, bitless and bridleless, and the application of equitation science.
Pop-up clinics at your yard and private coaching available across Gower and South Wales.
Looking to feel safe and calm around your horse?
Do you want your horse to be a delight to handle?
Maybe you want the lightest possible responses to the aids?
You would like to start using positive reinforcement, or get better at it?
Perhaps you want to safely introduce your horse to a bitless bridle?
Maybe you need me to train your horse for you?
I can help you with all of these things.
For over two decades, I have been helping horse people like you get better relationships and better performance without the fight. I can help you learn how to read your horse's expressions better so you can recognise stress behaviours sooner, keeping your horse feeling safer and calmer. I can also help you discover the application of learning theory for lighter responses to the aids, how, why and when to bring in positive reinforcement methods including clicker training, and introduce you to liberty training and bitless and bridleless riding.
The most important thing I can help you with is to read and respond to your horse, whatever you do with your horse.
***Try before you buy***
Come and visit me and my horses and I can show you how to use positive reinforcement in your training as well as demonstrate how bitless bridles work
Sometimes it’s not always possible to train your own horse and so I also offer horse training: from foal, through to backing and riding away, and also to assist with behavioural problems (although in that case you will need a veterinary referral and behavioural consultation first).
The key thing is I visit the horse in their own home to train them, saving them the stress of moving away, even temporarily to another yard. This does mean that I can only offer this service on Gower. Please get in touch to discuss your requirements.