Comments for Intelligent Horsemanship at Moor Wood Stables with Adam Goodfellow and Nicole Golding http://whisperingback.co.uk Helping people get on with horses since 1996 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on A bit of “Me Time” by adminhttp://whisperingback.co.uk/2012/02/a-bit-of-me-time/#comment-22 admin Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:53:04 +0000 http://whisperingback.co.uk/?p=1616#comment-22 I'm assuming it's obvious to everyone that I mean an *equine* limb dissection? I’m assuming it’s obvious to everyone that I mean an *equine* limb dissection?

]]> Comment on Courses – more about by adminhttp://whisperingback.co.uk/courses-more-about/#comment-18 admin Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:07:55 +0000 http://mw.cambraydesign.co.uk/?page_id=501#comment-18 Hi Kathryn Thank you so much for these wonderful comments! Praise is always nice, but what I like so much is how clearly you grasped what we are trying to do in terms of the seamless integration of groundwork and ridden work. Also, one of the key areas of interest I think for people is how it progresses - one session in isolation might be useful in terms of how to work on a particular issue, but what is the next step? How do you complete the process and get to the end stage? The young horse that was here for starting (sort of, not exactly a remedial starter but he'd encountered some problems), progressed brilliantly, such that on his last session he was hacking out with his rider on his own across the set aside and through the village. We will post his story up when things are a little less busy here! If you were jealous about that hack with Sensi, you would have been utterly green the next day, when we went out for 4.5 hours to Cirencester Park and had the most amazing canters along seemingly endless tracks. Sensi, 24, was up for every canter and the 9 year old horse we were escorting rapidly ran out of steam! Thanks again for your comments, Nicole and co. Hi Kathryn

Thank you so much for these wonderful comments! Praise is always nice, but what I like so much is how clearly you grasped what we are trying to do in terms of the seamless integration of groundwork and ridden work.

Also, one of the key areas of interest I think for people is how it progresses – one session in isolation might be useful in terms of how to work on a particular issue, but what is the next step? How do you complete the process and get to the end stage?

The young horse that was here for starting (sort of, not exactly a remedial starter but he’d encountered some problems), progressed brilliantly, such that on his last session he was hacking out with his rider on his own across the set aside and through the village. We will post his story up when things are a little less busy here!

If you were jealous about that hack with Sensi, you would have been utterly green the next day, when we went out for 4.5 hours to Cirencester Park and had the most amazing canters along seemingly endless tracks. Sensi, 24, was up for every canter and the 9 year old horse we were escorting rapidly ran out of steam!

Thanks again for your comments, Nicole and co.

]]> Comment on Courses – more about by Kathrynhttp://whisperingback.co.uk/courses-more-about/#comment-17 Kathryn Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:47:27 +0000 http://mw.cambraydesign.co.uk/?page_id=501#comment-17 I had an amazing day as a spectator earlier this week. It is such a treat to visit Moor Wood. What a beautiful place! (Do note though that you need to follow the directions carefully to find Moor Wood for the first time). I choose to be a spectator at least this first visit as I don’t own horse transport and haven’t yet taken my lad out and about as it were (Moor Wood being too far from home for a first journey). I wasn’t sure that he would settle away from home – now, I am sure he would (he probably wouldn’t want to leave!) I will confess that I had initial doubts about going to visit Moor Wood – I didn’t want to be an imposition. I really didn’t need to have worried. I was made very welcome. As it says on the website – you really can learn so much as a spectator. I saw many varied issues being worked on. There were 3 riders visiting Moor Wood this week. Each rider had 2 sessions, morning and afternoon. Each worked on whatever it was that was needed. All made some great progress in their sessions. The sessions included work settling a spooky horse, in-hand schooling, creating elevation (which led to one of riders working on shoulder in and experiencing piaffe for the first time) and one very lucky rider got to hack out with Nicole and Sensi – I had to work on containing my emotions (jealousy!) at this point. What a wonderful place to work on hacking issues. I also saw a livery being worked on longlines. Nicole and Adam call their clinics groundwork/riding ? I saw a seamless integration of both. I have done the IH 5 day course and learnt join up, longlining ... Today I saw how these can be used in real life, to help and develop horses and their riders with different issues. I saw join up/follow up used to help a visiting horse settle to work in a scary, spooky part of the school. I also learnt about the work that had been done in the previous days and what would be worked on next with that horse and rider. This was so interesting. It’s important to see the whole picture. On the courses you learnt the process, this was putting all the skills/tools from the toolkit (if you’ve done the IH course you’ll know what I mean) into practice for best effect. It was wonderful to meet the characters I had read about in Nicole and Adam’s books. It was especially wonderful to see Amber – and to see how far she has come. She was the horse who gave the rider her first experience of piaffe. The rider was thrilled – all this in a headcollar. Marley and Layla are delightful. They kept everyone entertained. Marley was busy building castles and Layla cooking some carrots in the play house. All this to the background sounds of rock music – and Marley at one point on drums (he may only be 4 but already showing talent). This achieved using ethical methods and as little pressure as possible – it works the results were obvious. All that is left for me to say is a huge thank you to everyone I met Nicole, Adam and family, Rachel, Jessica, the riders and of course the horses. I had an amazing day as a spectator earlier this week. It is such a treat to visit Moor Wood. What a beautiful place! (Do note though that you need to follow the directions carefully to find Moor Wood for the first time). I choose to be a spectator at least this first visit as I don’t own horse transport and haven’t yet taken my lad out and about as it were (Moor Wood being too far from home for a first journey). I wasn’t sure that he would settle away from home – now, I am sure he would (he probably wouldn’t want to leave!)
I will confess that I had initial doubts about going to visit Moor Wood – I didn’t want to be an imposition. I really didn’t need to have worried. I was made very welcome. As it says on the website – you really can learn so much as a spectator. I saw many varied issues being worked on.
There were 3 riders visiting Moor Wood this week. Each rider had 2 sessions, morning and afternoon. Each worked on whatever it was that was needed. All made some great progress in their sessions. The sessions included work settling a spooky horse, in-hand schooling, creating elevation (which led to one of riders working on shoulder in and experiencing piaffe for the first time) and one very lucky rider got to hack out with Nicole and Sensi – I had to work on containing my emotions (jealousy!) at this point. What a wonderful place to work on hacking issues. I also saw a livery being worked on longlines.
Nicole and Adam call their clinics groundwork/riding ? I saw a seamless integration of both. I have done the IH 5 day course and learnt join up, longlining … Today I saw how these can be used in real life, to help and develop horses and their riders with different issues. I saw join up/follow up used to help a visiting horse settle to work in a scary, spooky part of the school. I also learnt about the work that had been done in the previous days and what would be worked on next with that horse and rider. This was so interesting. It’s important to see the whole picture. On the courses you learnt the process, this was putting all the skills/tools from the toolkit (if you’ve done the IH course you’ll know what I mean) into practice for best effect.
It was wonderful to meet the characters I had read about in Nicole and Adam’s books. It was especially wonderful to see Amber – and to see how far she has come. She was the horse who gave the rider her first experience of piaffe. The rider was thrilled – all this in a headcollar.
Marley and Layla are delightful. They kept everyone entertained. Marley was busy building castles and Layla cooking some carrots in the play house. All this to the background sounds of rock music – and Marley at one point on drums (he may only be 4 but already showing talent).
This achieved using ethical methods and as little pressure as possible – it works the results were obvious. All that is left for me to say is a huge thank you to everyone I met Nicole, Adam and family, Rachel, Jessica, the riders and of course the horses.

]]> Comment on Loading by adminhttp://whisperingback.co.uk/what-we-do/problem-solving/loading-2/#comment-16 admin Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:34:12 +0000 http://mw.cambraydesign.co.uk/?page_id=443#comment-16 First can I start by saying a HUGE thank you for all you work and help today, he has never loaded like that before In the 2 and a half years we have had him! It was amazing to watch… even if he did try to find ‘a way out’ at the end, it was rectified! You told me to send you me an email with what I though we had done and achieved today, well first I can say that we I think we achieved a whole lot more today than we have ever achieved in a session of a few hours. I hope that the bond between Foggy and I will be strengthened with more respect on both sides of the relationship. I think that the work we started out on, just in the stable door really gave an example of in time what we will fully achieve in the trailer. And although, as you say today we were about 50/60% today, I feel that you are right when you say that there is still room to improve. I speak for mum and I when I say that we could not believe that by lunch time he was happily walking in and out, something mum and I have very rarely been able to see. And although we had a hiccup (my fault… but it was bound to happen!) I have to say, I think I expected him to re-think the trailer malarkey after a few hours. However, it was fabulous to see that you can work through that to achieve the results we did, I think this is something that will help me on the ground and when I am sat on him too. I hope that we will soon be the owners of a dually Head collar, as I think that he was a little blasé when It came to his opinion of his head collar, I hope to do a lot more groundwork with Him aswell, I really enjoyed the whole experience. Thank you SO much again, R.O. (S Wales) First can I start by saying a HUGE thank you for all you work and help today, he has never loaded like that before
In the 2 and a half years we have had him! It was amazing to watch… even if he did try to find ‘a way out’ at the
end, it was rectified!
You told me to send you me an email with what I though we had done and achieved today, well first I can say that we
I think we achieved a whole lot more today than we have ever achieved in a session of a few hours. I hope that the bond between
Foggy and I will be strengthened with more respect on both sides of the relationship. I think that the work we started out on,
just in the stable door really gave an example of in time what we will fully achieve in the trailer. And although, as you say today
we were about 50/60% today, I feel that you are right when you say that there is still room to improve. I speak for mum and I
when I say that we could not believe that by lunch time he was happily walking in and out, something mum and I have very rarely
been able to see. And although we had a hiccup (my fault… but it was bound to happen!) I have to say, I think I expected him to re-think
the trailer malarkey after a few hours. However, it was fabulous to see that you can work through that to achieve the results we did,
I think this is something that will help me on the ground and when I am sat on him too. I hope that we will soon be the owners of a dually
Head collar, as I think that he was a little blasé when It came to his opinion of his head collar, I hope to do a lot more groundwork with
Him aswell, I really enjoyed the whole experience.
Thank you SO much again,
R.O. (S Wales)

]]> Comment on Building Confidence by adminhttp://whisperingback.co.uk/confidence/#comment-15 admin Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:51:18 +0000 http://whisperingback.co.uk/?page_id=1452#comment-15 Well what can I say!! Other than thank you for the most amazing week. I can't believe how much I've learnt in just a week... The week has benefited me in so many ways, its was a great opportunity to de-stress and unwind. Its really made me realise how lucky I am to have such a cracking fun pony. Just got back from a lovely hack on Saucy we came across a herd of deer, so spent a while just watching them which was lovely. Tomorrow the plan is to ride her back to my house for tea! A Huge thank you to all for making us both so welcome. R.S. (Glos) Well what can I say!! Other than thank you for the most amazing week. I can’t believe how much I’ve learnt in just a week… The week has benefited me in so many ways, its was a great opportunity to de-stress and unwind. Its really made me realise how lucky I am to have such a cracking fun pony.

Just got back from a lovely hack on Saucy we came across a herd of deer, so spent a while just watching them which was lovely. Tomorrow the plan is to ride her back to my house for tea!

A Huge thank you to all for making us both so welcome.

R.S. (Glos)

]]> Comment on Building Confidence by adminhttp://whisperingback.co.uk/confidence/#comment-14 admin Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:49:31 +0000 http://whisperingback.co.uk/?page_id=1452#comment-14 It was brilliant to see and feel Ka so relaxed! K. O'C. (Glos) It was brilliant to see and feel Ka so relaxed! K. O’C. (Glos)

]]> Comment on What we do by adminhttp://whisperingback.co.uk/which-service/#comment-13 admin Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:22:45 +0000 http://mw.cambraydesign.co.uk/?page_id=632#comment-13 Please use this blog space if you feel your experience could help someone else make the right decision about which course of action to take. Please use this blog space if you feel your experience could help someone else make the right decision about which course of action to take.

]]> Comment on About Us by adminhttp://whisperingback.co.uk/about-us/#comment-11 admin Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:10:22 +0000 http://mw.cambraydesign.co.uk/?page_id=102#comment-11 "The most valuable part of the clinics is the wonderful effect you have had on my relationship with my daughter. Post divorce, I have often found myself despairing, to the extent that I welcomed her request to board as the only way I could envisage us existing under the same roof. I left the Easter clinic with my relationship with my daughter transformed into a positive relationship based on understanding and openness and this transformation continued on this latest clinic. Your philosophy and approach has the most profound effect on relationships and I only wish I had encountered it much earlier in my daughter’s life. I know, however, just as your ways can transform our relationships with our horses, they can bring about an equally powerful change in our relationships with one another, no matter how far down the road we have traveled in the wrong direction." A.D. (Devon) “The most valuable part of the clinics is the wonderful effect you have had on my relationship with my daughter. Post divorce, I have often found myself despairing, to the extent that I welcomed her request to board as the only way I could envisage us existing under the same roof. I left the Easter clinic with my relationship with my daughter transformed into a positive relationship based on understanding and openness and this transformation continued on this latest clinic. Your philosophy and approach has the most profound effect on relationships and I only wish I had encountered it much earlier in my daughter’s life. I know, however, just as your ways can transform our relationships with our horses, they can bring about an equally powerful change in our relationships with one another, no matter how far down the road we have traveled in the wrong direction.” A.D. (Devon)

]]> Comment on Accommodation by adminhttp://whisperingback.co.uk/accommodation/#comment-10 admin Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:11:55 +0000 http://mw.cambraydesign.co.uk/?page_id=1220#comment-10 Been before? After you have visited others would value hearing about what you did and whether it was any good or not, including anyone who stayed at Moor Wood. Been before? After you have visited others would value hearing about what you did and whether it was any good or not, including anyone who stayed at Moor Wood.

]]> Comment on Need to economise? by adminhttp://whisperingback.co.uk/need-to-economise/#comment-9 admin Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:11:09 +0000 http://mw.cambraydesign.co.uk/?page_id=1046#comment-9 Please use this section to add your comments about what was best and worst value about your accommodation and food arrangements during your stay with us. Please share any ideas you have about how to make it better value for the next person. Please use this section to add your comments about what was best and worst value about your accommodation and food arrangements during your stay with us.

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