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"An Exercise For When You Can't Ride," from my FREE monthly newsletter
From the Horse Ground Training Series:
"Take your left hand and hold the lead rope as if it's the left rein. Pull the halter slowly toward yourself.
"Concentrate. Feel how much pressure it takes to bring that rope toward you. You should feel on your pinky how many ounces it takes. Throw it back out and do it again. This time close your eyes and really concentrate. If you get this lesson, horse training gets a whole lot easier. Really focus on what it feels like. How many ounces is it taking to bring that halter back to you? Think of a specific number. How many pounds? How many ounces? One or two? 5 pounds or 5 ounces?
"How would you like your horse to be that soft? A pound or two doesn't seem so bad, does it? Actually, it's terrible. Having to put a pound or two of pressure on the rein to get it to "come back to you" is just terrible. Take the halter off the lead rope now and throw the rope back out, snap end first.
"Do the same thing, drag the snap back to you. How does that feel? It feels pretty light, right? You feel a big difference. But that's still terrible. Now take the lead rope and throw the opposite end out, the end without the snap. That feels really light. It feels like nothing. It's still terrible.
The reason it's terrible is because…"
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"Next exercise: Stand in front of your horse, with him to your left, facing towards his rear. Hold the lead in your left hand about one foot from the slobber strap. Stare at the point of his hip and think "move left." (We don't want the shoulders to move, just the hip.) Naturally, he'll just stand there – but you must always begin with the lightest amount of pressure "you ever expect the horse to work from." You'll have to add motivation to get the horse to find the answer. Keep staring and thinking "left," but begin twirling the end of the lead in your right hand like a propeller blade. Twirling it faster will make a sound, try that. The "more sensitive type" horses will move right off. Horses that are used to controlling you (rather than the other way around) will require more motivation. Try twirling the rope nearer and nearer the hip. Still nothing? Smack him on the rump with it. It doesn't hurt (try it on your leg), but it makes a big noise and will sort of shock them into doing something. (Note: Don't stand directly in front of the horse when applying such a motivator for obvious reasons. Also, you may want to add a tiny bit of pressure to the lead, suggesting to the horse that his head and front end stay put while the backend moves.) As in all horse training, we're just looking for movement, any movement, the first time or so, before releasing our pressure." - Print out from home
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"Horse Riding And Polo Lessons For Beginners"
By Darren Robbo
Experts say the benefits of horseback riding include the obvious, of enjoyment as well as developing better balance, coordination and the exercising of your brain. There are benefits also of Polo as a sport in respect of team building and character building.
Taking Riding lessons from an instructor with Polo experience and a school of horses rather than hopping aboard your neighbour’s hardly trained 5-year-old nag gives you the twofold benefits of a knowledgeable instructor and a highly experienced and well trained horse with a good temperament that can tolerate added bouncing at times.
The other benefits of learning to ride a horse are that, it is a great activity for young and old alike, and is also excellent for people with physical, cognitive or emotional disabilities.
A quick crash course into Polo
You don't want to have a bad experience, before you head out into the field you want to make sure that you have control of your animal.
A lot of the gaining control of your animal will come through experience and just gaining confidence, and realising the horse will do what you tell it to do when you tell it to do it. That is if you know what you're doing, and safety should always come first.
When equipped, each rider has a long-handled mallet that they use to try and score a goal by hitting a white wooden ball into the opposing teams’ goal. It is fast, furious and exciting to behold, especially as the horses seem to come within inches of your sideline lounge chair.
Polo is an incredibly fun and exhilarating sport to watch and even more so to play. It is a game played in seven-minute periods called chukkas, with six chukkas being the normal length of play. There are four riders and their mounts on a team.
The Grounds and Field
On a full sized grass field, each team has four people. The Polo grounds are 300 yards long, 160 yards wide if boarded. Being boarded means the field has a 12-inch upright board bounding the perimeter, which stops the ball rolling easily out of play.
If the ground is un-boarded, it is 200 yards wide and marked with a white line.
The goal posts, which are poisoned at each end, are measured to be 8 yards wide.
The duration of Play
A full Polo match is 8 chukkas, but often in club matches only 4 or 6 chukkas are played. Each chukka is timed to last 7 minutes, then a bell is rung, but the game goes on until the ball goes out of play, or for another 30 seconds when the bell is rung again, the chukka ends where the ball is.
The clock is stopped between the umpire blowing his whistle to stop the play, and the whistle to restart play if a foul is committed or the ball goes out of play.
There are intervals of 3 minutes between each of the chukkas and 5 a minute half time. Ends are changed at every goal scored - this has been found to be fairest when there is a wind.
About the Author: White Rose Polo Club has brought this article to you. http://www.whiterosepolo.co.uk/ offers a variety of horse riding lessons and Polo experiences. Polo Days are excellent for corporate days and corporate events.
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