HORSEMANSHIP CLINIC: DEVELOPING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL

BEARPAW
PERFORMANCE HORSES

MIKE SHIPLEY, Owner/Manager

BRISAS DEL NORTE en VOLCAN

P.O. Box 21, VOLCAN 0424, CHIRIQUI, REPUBLIC OF PANAMA

F U.S.A. (352)327-7290 — Cellular (507)6381-9530 — HOUSE/FAX: (507)771B4677

E-MAIL Bearpawph@gmail.com

 HORSEMANSHIP CLINIC:
DEVELOPING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR
COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL

Instructor: Mike Shipley

SUNDAY, JUNE 9TH IN VOLCAN AT LA POMME

MORNING SESSION STARTS AT 10:00 A.M.

AFTERNOON SESSION AT 1:30 P.M.

COST: Individual Session Only – Participate with horse $15*

Observe without horse $10

Both Sessions Combined – Participate with horse $25*

Observe without horse $15

*There will be space for 20 participants with horses – first 20 participants that register and pay will haveheir spot reserved. (La instrucción será en Inglés, pero habrá un traductor que se traducirá en Español)

 EQUIPMENT NEEDED:

Morning Session you will need a rope halter and a 12 to 14 foot lead rope.

Afternoon Session you will need to have your horse tacked up and ready to ride.

 MORNING SESSION: GAINING CONTROL AND RESPECT FROM THE GROUND

Leading your horse with a zone of safety

Controlling both ends

Desensitizing your horse

Directional Changes

Gaining Confidence – You and Your Horse

Lunch Break – Bring a sack lunch or a Campo Lunch available on the grounds provided

by Mana’s Restaurante so you know it will be good)

AFTERNOON SESSION: ZONE RIDING – HEAD TO TAIL, ANY DIRECTION

Introductory Demonstration of Zone Riding

Circle in-frame head in

Circle in frame head out

Directional Control Mid-Section (Rib Cage)

Circle with Hind Quarters

Backing a Circle

Instructor: Mike Shipley grew up in the Midwest, but moved to Washington state in 1985, where he lived and worked until retiring and moving to Panama in October of 2011. He brought with him to Panama two of his favorite horses and his two cow dogs. His whole adult life has been devoted to breeding, raising, training and showing horses in a variety of Western classes and activities at Open, AQHA, ApHA (Appaloosa) and APHA (Paint) shows and events as well as regional club cuttings and cattle sortings. One of his horses, on which he will be demonstrating, is Lenas Smoken Dry (a.k.a. “Cowboy”),a breeding Paint stallion from strong working quarter horse lines, who has been trained and shown in roping, cutting, working cow horse and cattle sorting events. Cowboy was the Oregon Paint Horse Association Reserve High Point Senior Horse in 2007 with a limited amount of showing. Mike’s approach to training horses has evolved over the years and is intent on building a foundation in each horse through clear and consistent communication and control that builds the horse’s confidence and ability one step at a time. He believes that every rider and horse, no matter what their discipline (Western or English, Rodeo or Trail riding), can benefit from learning to gain their horse’s confidence and respect from ground work exercises that flow into the training that is done in the saddle. His goal is to build a rider’s confidence by teaching them how  to lay the foundation in training their horse in a way that establishes effective and consistent communication between horse and rider which produces a horse that, when finished, is safe, willing, confident and light to handle and produces a confident rider who has control of the total  horse and its movements, all the time, with a minimum of effort. (A thank you to Chemy and the folks at La Pomme for allowing the clinic to be held at their facility. It is greatly appreciated