Has anyone taken university/school courses involving horses and riding?
Question by theaftermathxx: Has anyone taken university/teach courses concerning horses and riding?
I’d really like to become a trainer. Well, more of a re-trainer. Working with horses who have bucking problems/head shy/general misbehaving issues etc.
I was just wondering if any of you horse trainers out there have taken a course on it? I wouldn’t even know what to look up. Is this all just learned by experience? I’d like to get some professional information rather than following someone else’s techniques all the time.
Thankfulness for any information!
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Answer by sparrow
Yes, I have. Found the book work very informative, but the hands on…well….the best house to learn is where it is really happening. The people who are making a living at it are the people to learn from.
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im plotting on taking an equitation class spring semester of this up coming year
My trainer and friend is a professional trainer (people send their horses from all over to be trained by her) and I am going to be taking her Equine Science and Advanced Equine Science classes next fall and spring semester. I have talked to her as well as friends of mine who have taken the classes and it is very hands on, but it won’t make you a trainer overnight (it is to learn in this area horses and horses care, not training). I would suggest find a trainer that will allow you to be an apprentice in this kind of work.
I took various equine science classes as well as riding class (and was on the equestrian team) as part of an equine science insignificant, though I didn’t complete the insignificant. Some of it was excellent information that you really can and should learn from a book, and some of it did allow for a small bit of hands on work, mainly because I went to a really small teach where students had to be caught up to help run it. But, I reckon the most vital part of learning how to be a trainer is hands-on experience. If you were wanting to be a vet or a nutritionist or something else, then yes, you should have a lot of classroom time as well before you practice in the field. But trainers typically have to learn by experience. My twin sister initially wanted to major in equine studies, so she went to the digit one equine teach in the nation (at the time…don’t know if it still is). It was such a huge teach that she didn’t have as many opportunities to see the “background” stuff (which is obviously a part of training horses). Two years later, she transferred to a smaller teach without an equine program and started working in a really nice h/j barn. The trainer there took her under her wing and encouraged her to get a business degree, which is very applicable to running a training business/program, and allowed her to do a lot of the hands on stuff at the barn under her supervision, so she was able to both learn and do. She got to ride a diversity of horses, start teaching beginner lessons, deal with the vet/farrier/etc. scheduling, arrange feedings, do blanketing and turnout, etc. She had to learn the ins and outs of the business by really responsibility it, not by reading in this area it in a classroom. Reckon in this area it-if you wanted to pay someone hundreds of dollars a month to train your horse, would you want someone that has successfully trained a horse before or someone who read in this area it in a book and watched a video of it in the classroom? That’s not to say that the classroom background won’t be helpful, but it isn’t everything. If you’re really interested in training, I suggest that you start working in a barn alongside a trainer as soon as possible-responsibility the dirty work and the fun stuff. Learn everything you can. If you have the opportunity to attend a class or workshop or seminar, then do it-knowledge is a excellent thing. But you also need to get your hands dirty in the barn. When you start to choose your college and major, deliberate something like business (which will help you with the background of starting and managing your program-time, money, etc.) or something else that applies to your work. Plus, having that “non-equine” major can be a backup plot if the horse industry doesn’t pan out for you. Honestly, my twin sister has been working full time at the barn she started at since December, teaching all beginner lessons, riding clients’ horses, managing the feeding and scheduling, and assistant coaching the IHSA team…and she’s sick of it. She no longer has her own horse because she never had time to ride her; she can’t go to very many shows because she’s the one in charge of the beginner lesson kids who don’t go to the shows (so she teaches lessons at the barn), and she’s constantly at everyone’s beck and call. Horses are no longer just a “fun leisure activity” for her-so be careful and don’t become stuck. Leave yourself a further option.