The Principles of Training

Understanding The Relationship Between You and Your Horse, and Why Effective Training Works.

De: Warwick Schiller

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” - Harrington Emerson

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of training decisions to be made when working with a horse? Should you speed up, slow down, turn left, turn right? What transition should you make next? Which body part should you move where?

What if you didn’t need to memorize a million techniques and scenarios, but just needed to understand the principles at play in each situation?

The Principles of Training offers readers an understanding of the 12 fundamental principles that all successful horse people use and illustrates them with real-life examples to help readers fully understand why effective training works.

The principles of training

A few months ago, I started volunteering at a horse rescue. Many of them were taken from an abusive situation. I knew not much on how to care or train a horse, all I had to offer was great respect and admiration and love for them. Being around them was a dream come true. This book not only helped me with the self-confidence in myself, but it also showed me how to help a horse in the most caring and kind way, especially with them coming into our rescue in a very delicate state. This book has showed me how to work with them, so one day they can be adopted and live up to their fullest potential. I will definitely recommend this book and keep it as a reference at the top of my list of great books.

I love this

This is the key to everything I need to know about training my horses. It is based on The Dorrance and Hunt philosophy and weaves in the Talent Code. Brilliant.

Easy to understand & great information!

Highly recommend this book to any horse owner! Everything is broken down in ways you’ll remember and understand; as everything is related to life. Enhances horsemanship, techniques, and your overall understanding of why a horse does something. Start to finish was a wonderful book!

Good intro to WS Horsemanship

Robot AI voice is ok, good intro to WS’s training methodology overall with some back ground and stories to go with his horsemanship fundamentals.

Good content, dislike virtual narration.

I liked the material of the book very much. But I absolutely did not like the virtual voice narration. The inflection and accent of the Voice was fine. lack the ability to understand how to pronounce various words based on the context of the sentence such as picking up a lead referring to how a horse travels and pronouncing it as lead metal. In future, I would much prefer live narrators.