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Importance of Ground Exercises
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Ground exercises:
a. Expose any resistance in the horse.
b. Cure common and difficult problems.
c. Prevent communication problems that cause frustration, &
injuries.
d. Are the key to a calmer, smarter, braver, and more athletic
horse.
e. Create a language of communication.
f. Are the foundation of skills on which to build anything we
do with horses.
g. Influence everything you do with your horse.
h. Make advanced maneuvers easier.
i. Help gain your horse's respect and trust.
j. Transfer to all you do while riding.
k. Develop a deeper understanding of why horses do what they
do.
l. Develop a deeper sensitivity about what the horse thinks and
feels.
m. Exercise both you and horse mentally, emotionally, and
physically.
n. Cause both you & your horse to be less unpredictable and
more dependable.
o. Give you more ways to deal with fears in both you and your
horse.
p. Are the preliminaries for reaching all other goals.
q. Become a diagnostic system to help find holes in development.
r. Teach you to be a natural leader.
s. Cause a relationship to grow into a harmonious and equal
partnership.
t. Allow changes in both horse and rider to happen naturally.
u. Give responsibilities to both horse and person.
v. Allow choices by both partners to be made based on natural
consequences.
w. Become a journey of creativity with purpose and fun.
x. Create a new attitude of temperance and justice.
y. Help us break old and undesirable habits.
z. Give us another reason to slow down and enjoy the process of
life.
Hope this may inspire you to continue developing ground activities with your horse.
If you are having difficulty riding chances are you need to improve your ground skills.
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