Distillation of Horsemanship Concepts

The concepts that I see that are universal to good horsemanship can be distilled down to the following basic ideas:

• It's the release that teaches
• Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult
• Isolate, separate, recombine
• The seven keys to success
• The nine principles of horsemanship
• The horse has a mental, emotional, and physical system and these correlate with respect, impulsion, and flexion
• Balance feels good
• Physical training exercises can be broken down to flexibility, mobility and collectibility
• Being able to see where the horse is and make adjustments on the fly to where you want the horse to be.

I will go into each of these concepts in depth in later posts.