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Horse-man-ship Mentality – Ride with feel, and its importance.

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Horse-man-ship Mentality – Ride with feel, and its importance.

Cappel Cowboy Wisdom

Feel is a word that is used often when it comes to quoting expert equestrians when they are talking about horses and how to achieve remarkable things with them. However feel is much more than simply a word. It is in fact an action verb used to describe a sensation either received or given.

It is in fact a back-and-forth awareness that should be used in effective communication between a person and a horse. If misread from a lack of awareness of either the person or the horse it can be the very thing that causes the interaction between them to turn bad!

Feel, to be effective, needs to come from inside the human who knows exactly what he or she wants and the presence of mind and awareness in the body to recognize when the horse offers the desired response back to the human’s request. This does not come from mechanical head knowledge but rather an offer and response to it. When the person and the horse are in sync with each other it is a beautiful dance with zero resistance.

Mindful Riding,

Dennis Cappel - Master Horseman

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