No matter how careful and safety-conscious you are, stuff happens. You’ll want these 6 riding survival skills to become part of your students’ muscle memory.
Handy little tool for keeping track of each riding student’s progress. This booklet contains Western objectives for Red-Teal Horsemanship Levels of the Learning Levels mounted equine curriculum, formatted as checklists.
Teach mounted Western lessons with the Horsemanship track of our HorseSense Learning Levels progressive equine curriculum. Lists all of the mounted objectives for Red through Teal Levels in a handy checklist format.
Prioritizing your own health and happiness will not hurt your equine business. On the contrary, your clients and horses will also be better for it!
No matter how motivated students are to learn and improve their horsemanship, we think occasional rewards – ribbons, certificates, and other simple prizes – are beneficial in a lesson program to inspire extra effort and create positive new habits.
This handy printable checklist has lists of common items found in equine first aid kits, organized by use (e.g., vital signs, wound care, hoof care, leg bandages, etc.) Great teaching tool to help students identify items used to treat minor equine veterinary issues, especially when used with our Green Level HorseSense Study Guide. Also helpful for organzing and restocking your equine kits in the barn and trailer.
Without show competition or outside events as motivation, riding instructors must provide challenges that keep students stretching, learning and growing.
We believe that showing a horse is a privilege, not a right – and as riding instructors, it often falls on us to determine when a student has earned that privilege. That means we need guidelines that tell us if a student is ready to show.
Use this HorseSense teaching guide for unmounted lessons that introduce equine trailer safety. Teach your Blue Level students how to perform a safety check on a truck and trailer; to identify parts and understand the process of hitching up a trailer and tow vehicle; to safely load and unload a horse, and to prepare for trailering emergencies.
Orange Level Horsemanship acts as a bridge between advanced beginner and intermediate riding.
Teach students to prepare for horse shows with a detailed, printable checklist of items they should consider packing for themselves, their horse, and their family cheering section.
Help students prepare for a relaxed, safe and enjoyable horse show experience with our detailed 8-week show preparation checklist. Great for teaching show prep lessons or clinics!
This Stuff Happens card set contains discussion scenarios to help your students anticipate — and hopefully prevent — the MANY things that can go wrong at any kind of horse show.
We riding instructors need to help our students understand that they are athletes — and help them form the habits of an athlete, one small step at a time.
Barrel racing is one of our favorite versatile activities. We can set the arena at the beginning of the week and use it to teach horses and riders at every level, whether they ride English, Western or bareback.
Take the guesswork out of your equine fitness program when you use our templates as guidelines for comprehensive tracking and planning. Also an invaluable tool for riding instructors: teach your students to systematically plan for a horse’s conditioning – and to always put the horse’s needs first!
Teaching younger riders in Rainbow Level is not like teaching older students. It requires a different tone, mindset, and lesson structure, along with some special safety considerations.
Our favorite kinesthetic prop for riding lessons can be used to improve arm and hand position, teach arena geometry, and test a student’s lower leg or release over fences.
There’s a light at the end of the beginner tunnel, and Blue Level horsemanship students are having epiphanies left and right… they know the dance steps – it’s time to tune into their equine partners.
Level Up horsemanship camps and clinics are popular, moneymaking, memorable events. They give our students a boost of measurable progress – and help them form some close-knit friendships.
Use this flexible sample schedule as a template to create your own Level Up horsemanship and unmounted clinics using the Learning Levels curriculum.
Use this flexible sample schedule as a template to create your own Level Up horsemanship or unmounted camps using the Learning Levels curriculum.
Printable templates for creating your own equine record book. Also an invaluable tool for teaching students about veterinary, farrier, dental, chiropractic and bodywork schedules, as well as recordkeeping for horse ID, conditioning, training, and showing.
Unmounted horsey learning games are our group or private lesson go-to for filling camp schedules and unexpected rainy days.
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We’ve been blessed with many talented photographers over the years: students who voluntarily stood in sweltering/ freezing arenas, capturing lifelong memories of lessons, camps and shows. We’re grateful to all of them!
One former student, Delaney Witbrod, is now a professional photographer with a gift for animal portraits – see more of her fine work here. We’re also grateful for photos of Western riding donated by LLPro instructors – particularly Bit of Pleasure Horse School and Joyful Hearts Photography!
You’ll find illustrations throughout our online courses and printed materials graciously donated by our friend Rhonda Hagy. Evan Surrusco contributes additional illustrations and handles most of our photo processing. Contact us for information about their work.