Getting On:  Let’s Ride!

Level 1 Advancing / Intro to Level 2

Enjoy 4 days dedicated just to you and your horse! Uninterrupted time with your horse, in a learning environment, is one of the best, most efficient ways to improve your horsemanship and progress.

This course will involve both playing online and an introduction to riding, to riding safely, naturally and with savvy. You’ll learn to be more effective and clear in your communication, to be better understood by your horse. You’ll start learning to win the 7 Games! As a result, your bond with your horse -- and his or her trust in and respect for you--will increase and strengthen. You'll be introduced to the 22' rope and a number of patterns to add variety to your play as you continue to build consistency. You and your horse will be bored no more!

 Days 2, 3 & 4 will give you an understanding of saddle fit, equine posture, and saddling. You’ll also learn pre-flight checks, and how to read your horse’s horsenality, before riding which helps keep you safe. You'll learn how using one rein gives you control, and how to do the one-rein stop effectively. You’ll get to practice beginning Level 2 riding skills such as direct and indirect rein positions, the phases for go and whoa, follow the rail, transitions and more! It’s so easy even adults can do it!

You’ll gain the hands-on coaching you need to keep progressing on your own, with the help of Parelli educational DVDs, when you go home. You’ll see how common issues such as not standing still for saddling and mounting, refusing to go, going too fast or bolting, bucking, being “herd bound” or “barn sour” can disappear.

The clinic format comprises presentations, simulations, demonstrations, practice and coaching. This 4-day clinic involves online play and riding, and is limited to 8 participants.

Pre-requisites:  Successful self-assessment of L1 ground games/tasks and all of the Friendly Game Freestyle riding tasks in L1. (See Savvy Club website for self-assessment tasks for each level.) This clinic is also ideal for those who have officially passed the L1 audition and are wanting help with riding as well as moving into L2 online. Familiarity with the L2 DVDs and L2 Patterns is recommended.

Parelli equipment for this level: horseman’s halter, 12’line, 22’ line, carrot stick and savvy string, saddle. Natural hackamore recommended.

This clinic begins 9:30 a.m. Thusday, June 3, and at 9:00 a.m. Friday-Sunday. The day will end at approximately 5:00 p.m. with a lunch break of an hour or so.

Which horse to bring?   Bring a horse you can ride at a walk and trot, (on purpose!) and have recently ridden (within the past two weeks).  Please, bring a horse you can already ride, whether with the rope hackamore or bridle; do not bring a horse you want to learn to ride. This is not a colt starting or horse training clinic; the first four levels in Parelli are more about educating humans than training horses. Bring the horse with whom you feel most safe and confident. What you learn you can transfer to more challenging horses when you are ready. Your horse is your teacher, and learning from a “steady Eddy” (your easiest horse) is what Pat and Linda Parelli recommend.

No stallions allowed at any clinics! A stallion is an intact male two years older and up, whether used for breeding or not.