Our lesson was really awesome! the body awareness you taught me seems to be what Blaze and I needed to progress.

Instead of going over my version of Gavin’s clinic, I thought you might enjoy some direct quotes. I taped as much as I could from Gavin’s lecture in Kentucky, October 2009.

Some of the common indicators that people use to determine if a horse is moving correctly include:

The value of simple models to deal with hard problems.

Bio-mechanics entails looking at the natural structure of the body in order to better understand how it should ideally function.

Steven Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” is a fantastic model for people getting along with people. Using his model, I have taken the liberty of applying his ideas to horsemanship to share a perspective on how riders can perhaps get along with horses a bit better.

The term disengagement means the horse no longer has a source of power from its hindquarters.

When I work with riders one of the trickiest parts of making improvements is that the changes don’t always feel right at first.

The solution to horse behavior problems, often lies in introducing the opposite problem; one uncharacteristic for the horse

There is sometimes a huge difference in riding positions between what is fashionable and what is bio-mechanically sound. The reality is that balance is balance is balance.

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