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Horsemanship in Germany

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Horsemanship in Germany

horsemanship in GermanyI got a very thoughtful email from a listener.  Christian lives in Germany with his wife and three children. It sounds like he has a demanding white-collar job.  He was very complimentary of the podcast – one of his favorites was the episode with cowboy Bill Mooney – He encouraged us to keep producing them. Thanks Christian. I’ve had several emails back and forth with Christian.  His English is very good. Through the emails I’ve learned a little about his life and horsemanship in Germany. He gave me permission to share some of his story.

Horsemanship in Germany is different.  According to Christian,  women and girls dominate the horse industry. Now, I’m not saying that like it’s a bad thing, only to show that Christian had a few more hurdles to get to where he is today.  His family was not wealthy, either.  For him to pursue his passion for horses as a teenager was definitively a challenge.

And, when you pursue a dream, sometimes luck has a way of finding you too.  After college, Christian worked for an international company that sent him to their plant in Evanston, Wyoming.  While there he visited a ranch where he found himself on the back of a horse once again.

This is Christian’s story.  I hope you enjoy it.

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John & Ranae

Episode #155

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Kalley Krickeberg Versatile Horsewoman

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Kalley Krickeberg Versatile Horsewoman

Kalley KrickebergKalley Krickeberg was raised on a cattle farm in Illinois.  From using the horses on the farm, she moved up to riding and training OTTB in playing polo.  As a farm girl, Kalley was active in 4H before moving on to other disciplines.  Kalley rode dressage, jumping, and reining.  She also trained and rode horses in cutting and learned how to train a horse at liberty.

Kalley Krickeberg calls her program the “Balanced Horse Training”.  She brings what she has learned from the many disciplines she has studied together to build a solid horsemanship program.  Because of her variety of experience, Kalley is not “locked in” to one set of rules or mantra and can look for the solution that best fits the horse.

Horsemanship Tip

Increasing the Degrees of Difficulty

According to Kalley, there are four ways to increase the degrees of difficulty:  Position, Length of Time in Position, Speed, and Environment.  Kalley explains how to use the ways to improve your horse.

As a Contributing Editor & Equine Advisor to the APHA magazine, Chrome, Kalley provides advice in her column “Keepin It Fresh”.

You can follow Kalley Krickeberg on Facebook at Kalley Krickeberg Training Barn and at her website KalleyKrickeberg.com

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John & Ranae

Episode #115

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Lester Buckley Horsetrainer Clinician Breeder

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Lester BuckleyLester Buckley – Horsetrainer, Clinician, Breeder

Lester Buckley was not a trainer I was familiar with. Listener Robin Kane has been helping out getting guests for the show and she is hosting a clinic with Lester Buckley in Willits, Ca. at Berry Creek Ranch, August 18 – 20.  It’s great to learn from every trainer, and I wanted to find out Lester’s story.

We got a hold of Lester via Skype while he was waiting on a load of hay to arrive.  Lester lives in Kentucky and, boy, does he have a story to tell.  Lester worked on the King and Parker ranches.  One is in Texas, the other in Hawaii.  Both are very large cattle operations.  Lester gained a great deal of experience from riding on these to ranches and he talks about it on the show.

Lester attributes a lot of his early experience to riding horses at the ranch of Delwin Burch, cutting horse trainer and breeder.  The experience he gained there led him to learn more from Ray Hunt.  After earning a degree in equine science from Sul Ross State University in Texas he began working and training horses.  Lester also competed in cutting and captured the Reserve World Champion APHA Open Superstakes.

Wanting to learn more about classical horsemanship and precision movement, Lester Buckley turned to the German Equestrian School where he learned from some of the top trainers in Europe.

Clinics Lester Buckley 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lester Buckley Website

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Thanks for listening,

John & Ranae

Episode #112

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Western Dressage Jennifer Collman

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Western Dressage with Jennifer Collman

western dressageHow can western dressage help your horsemanship?  Jennifer Collman has over twenty years experience training horses.  Jennifer is the manager of a training and instruction program overseeing 60 students and 20 horses. Western dressage is so important to her, she uses it as a foundation for her training techniques.

In response to a listener email, I sought out an expert in western dressage and came across Jennifer’s name.  A quick email and soon we were talking on the phone.  Jennifer is on the Competition Committee for the Western Dressage Association of America.  She also was a founding member of North American Western Dressage, a great source of educational material about western dressage.

Much of our conversation is about general horsemanship principles and how techniques in dressage can help the “average” horsemen understand their horse better.  Communication is a two-way street.  Many times we are focused on getting our horse to understand us, but how often are we listening to him?

The Dressage Pyramid

western dressageDressage uses a training pyramid to take you through steps of improving your relationship with your horse.  Jennifer takes us through those steps and briefly explains the purpose and reason for each of them.  While you may not understand them completely after our conversation, I hope it will get you to thinking about horsemanship from another angle.

Links Heard on the Show

Jennifer Collman Website

Jennifer Collman Facebook

North American Western Dressage

Western Dressage Association of America

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We have well over 100 episodes up now and you can find them all for free on iTunes, with our Android App in the Amazon store, and now Stitcher, or wherever podcasts are distributed.  Get the Stitcher app and tell us how it works.  We are on Google Play too!  You can also find every episode and more about the show at whoapodcast.com.  Please take a moment and join our email list. Get in on the conversation with Facebook and Twitter – just look for WhoaPodcast.

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Thanks for listening,

John & Ranae

Episode #89

Working Equitation Training

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Working Equitation Training

Working Equitation trainingWe take the show on the road for some Working Equitation Training.  The Working Equitation International Association of USA (WEIAUSA) held a Working Equitation training event in Mira Loma, California.  The group invited Portuguese world-class trainer Nuno Matos to help in the working equitation training.  Six trainers spent five full days learning about the sport.

From an earlier Whoa Podcast on Working Equitation we spoke with Tarrin Warren (See episode #42).  From that meeting we contacted the organizers to ask if we could participate in the schooling show and experience for ourselves and our audience what working equitation was all about.  They did us one better by inviting us to arrive a day earlier and get some working equitation training.

We took our recorder and produced a variety of interviews from organizers, trainers, and even the judge of the schooling show.  There is a wide variety great horsemanship information in this show.

Working Equitation trainingAfter spending a day getting some working equitation training, Ranae and I participated in the schooling show.  Ranae competed on Dusty in the Introductory division and I competed on Jessie in the Novice division.  We also created several videos of our runs and some excellent runs by several of the trainers.  You can find those on our YouTube Channel.

Thanks to Julie Alonzo, Vice-Chair of WEIAUSA, Barbara Price, WEIAUSA “L” Judge.  And, special thanks to the trainers who helped us out in our working equitation training: Roy Pelkey, Reta Conner, Robin Bond, Tarrin Warren, and of course, Nuno Matos.

Links

Working Equitation International Assn. of USA

Working Equitation Southern California

Reta Conner

Robin Bond

Tarrin Warren

 About Us

Welcome to the Whoa Podcast about Horses and Horsemanship.   I am your host  John Harrer.  Along with my wife, Ranae, each week on the show we talk about some aspect of owning a horse.  It could be feeding or supplementation.  It could be bits and bridles, tack, or cowboy boots.  We cover training problems, or competing in shows.  We talk to farriers and horse chiropractors.  We talk about movies, books and magazine articles.  And, we travel to places we think you would like to take your horse.   That’s what the Whoa Podcast is all about.

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We have well over 90 episodes up now and you can find them all for free on iTunes, with our Android App in the Amazon store, and now Stitcher, or wherever podcasts are distributed.  Get the Stitcher app and let us know how it works.  It’s Free.  You can also find every episode and more about the show at whoapodcast.com.  Please take a moment and join our email list. Get in on the conversation with Facebook and Twitter – just look for WhoaPodcast.

You are a big part of why we do this podcast.  We really love getting your feedback.  Please let us know your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions for the show.  You can email us at: John@WhoaPodcast.com

I blog at TrainingJessie.blogspot.com and I have a new blog about my Louisiana Leopard Catahoula puppy named Buster at BusterBrownDog.blogspot.com and if you want to know even more – and I can’t imagine why – it’s all at JohnHarrer.com

Thanks for listening,

John & Ranae

Episode #054

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