3-D Clinic 2 Recap: Equitation

Our team would like to congratulate the participants on their outstanding and engaged participation in the second of our 3-D mini series, Equitation. We thought this clinic was a good balance of familiarity and challenge—a chance to practice old skills yet work towards new ones. We were impressed by the participants’ willingness to step out and try new things to improve their equitation as well as their connection to their horse. Following is a recap of the content of the Equitation clinic.

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3-D Clinic 1 Recap: On the Ground

Our team would like to congratulate the participants of the first clinic of our 3-D mini series, On the Ground, on their outstanding and engaged participation. We thought this clinic proved to be very fun and rewarding for all involved, including the instructors. As our second segment, Equitation, approaches, we hope you are looking forward to more of the same - fun, fellowship and the improvement of old skills and the discovery of new ones.

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Our New Website

MM Training and Consulting is proud to announce its new web site located at www.mm-horsetraining.com. You’ll notice a whole new look and feel to our site, due to the many changes that have taken place at the barn over the last year. Check back often as we are continuing to update the site and add photos and other information. As you browse through our new site, take notice of our new logo that reflects our 3-D approach to horsemanship. This new design, created by designer and publishing specialist, Barbie Miller, portrays a unique color scheme that represents a color coded personality program applicable to horses and humans. To find out more about this unique form of horse/rider assessment, check out the corresponding article titled What Color is Your Horse…Really?

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Connection...What Does it Look Like?

As many of you know, we have addressed the topic of “connection” between horse and handler for years now. Yes, it has evolved over the years, but it is something, to some degree, that I have always done with horses since I was a child. Although I didn’t call it such, my awareness about “connection” started many years ago after an observer asked me, “Why do you blow at your horse?” As with many trainers who have worked with horses their whole lives, I had no idea why I did it. I just did it. And frankly, at the time, I was a little embarrassed that someone noticed that I did it. Since I’m a former Marine and grew up a cowgirl, you can only imagine how it might have seemed a little too “touchy feely” for me. But blowing at my horses was such a part of me, as a horseman, I kept doing it. And after some time of thinking, I concluded that I did it because horses really responded to it and liked it. And I could have simply left it at that. Right?

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