For most of my life I have been around horses from the biggest ones to the smallest ones! Through these magnificent creatures I have learned how to understand them and how to work with them in a way that they can trust you and be your companion for most of your life. Many horses are scared of what may lie on the other side and do not have enough courage to venture through that door it is your job as their owner to help them acheive this newly discovered confidence. Also, many people through most of their child and adult lives encounter the same problem that horses do they don't know how to communicate with other people or in their case other horses and how to adress their problems through the amazing communication of GROUNDWORK! Most people don't know how important groundwork is for both them and their horses. Groundwork is a way that you communicate with your horse on the same level as them the GROUND, it gives you a chance to understand your horse and other horses from a new point of view and it gives the horses a chance to learn how to trust their newly confound companions! Half of the time when I am training other people's horses for them and they are having problems with their horse acting up doing some of the techniques that I have learned from others help to acheive trust, strenght, and companionship for most of these horse that have recently been introduced to the concepts of groundwork!
Groundwork is a excercise to strenghthen your bond between horse and rider, many people that I have encountered when helping to train their horses just 'Hop on and ride the horse' they don't think about what important role that groundwork plays into all of this. Weather it be lunging or doing trust excercises it helps you and your horse in a bigger way than you think. Most people that are having a bad horse act up or having a rider abuse the privleges of owning a horse most people don't know that groundwork can help you solve most or all of these problems that you encounter through trail riding or any kind of riding for that matter.
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