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Riding Lessons with Richard Shrake

May 15, 2009

AQHA Professional Horseman Richard Shrake helps you develop a better relationship with your horse in this four-part series.

We all want to become better riders, improving our rhythm, form, confidence and so much more. AQHA Professional Horseman Richard Shrake gets you started in the right direction toward a better relationship with your horse in AQHA’s FREE Riding Lessons with Richard Shrake report.

In this amazing free report, Richard explains how riding a horse uses skills you already know, citing examples from golf, tennis and more.

Richard explains:

  • The importance of rhythm
  • Why timing is crucial to good riding
  • How precision and form work together to create a well-rounded rider
  • Confidence-building techniques
  • Breathing exercises
  • Plus all kinds of great drills and courses to help solidify your newfound techniques

Richard offers lots of rich, heartwarming examples within the Riding Lessons with Richard Shrake report.

“Megan has a brand-new horse, and she’s having trouble bonding with him. She’s starting to lose interest in riding,” Richard says. “Megan needs to realize that this horse needs to be like a best friend. She can’t blame him for his reactionary, sensitive attitude. She needs to find a way to make him a good friend – someone she’d like to be around all the time.”

Richard suggests a steady routine to help Megan with her situation:

  • Catch your horse’s eye
  • Release endorphins – the “feel good” hormones in every animal; in a horse, you can rub his ears, poll and cheeks
  • Halter your horse
  • Get your horse in “herd mode”

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Do you know what it means when your horse lifts his head, hollows his back and gets stiff? Richard explains, “This means your horse is protectign himself, the same asĀ  you would if someone walked up and hit you with a hard punch. Your horse is saying, ‘Whoops, you just smacked me before you told me what you were going to do.’ ” In this report, Richard shows you how to watch for signs fromĀ  your horse that you’re moving too fast for him. He shows you how to slow down your hands and rhythm to make your horse more comfortable and less sensitive.

In his section explaining the importance of rhythm, Richard says, “If you stand relaxed with one arm in the air and stomp your foot, you can feel the energy flow all the way from your foot to your fingertips. But if you stand with your jaw clenched and stomp your foot, the vibration ends at your tight jaw. If you have that same rigidity in your body, you’ll interrupt the rhythm from your horse’s gaits.”

Download Riding Lessons with Richard Shrake to learn the next step in improving your rhythm.

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5 Comments on “Riding Lessons with Richard Shrake”

  • Karen Stephens

    Richard Shrake’s article was quite interesting. I have a gelding (now 6yrs old) that has had a problem since he has been 4 and I just ride through it because trainers can’t figure it out. So I’m throwing this out to see what AQHA trainers think. He doesn’t like other horses loping towards him. When he’s in the herd, if the cows return too quickly or move towards him too quickly, he panics and tries to get away. He does not do this behavior all the time and there’s no warning when he will. It would be nice to break of this completely, but nobody seems to know why he does it. Any thoughts?

  • JAMES

    If anyone is interested who is a member of the AQHA I have several journals from the first two SEPT & OCT 1948 and others from 1949-1950 on sale on ebay.So take a look.

  • Nancy D. Carville

    Shoulder fore is the 4 track position inside hind follows track just
    inside inside fore. Shoulder in is 3 track with more angle inside hind falling in track of inside fore. Then you have 2 track movements such as shoulder in Travers and haunches in or Renvers. All develop thrust and impulsion. Watch a good dressage rider enter a ring in shoulder fore position lining up the horses hip with the shoulder.

  • Kathy H.

    Hi Karen Stephens did you have his eyes looked at…..My mare did things like that…I found out it was her left eye that was bad..
    That is all I know…hope that is not the case…. hope you find out why. He sounds realy nice… : )

  • Carol

    Karen, Kathy is on target. Have a thorough eye exam done on your gelding. I know of two cases that sound very similar and it was an eye problem that caused the panicky behavior. Once you find out there may be ways to deal with it. Good luck.

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