{"id":9652,"date":"2020-10-28T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T15:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equestrianbootsandbridles.com\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2020-12-20T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T21:11:06","slug":"horse-training-methods-and-philosophies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equestrianbootsandbridles.com\/horse-training-methods-and-philosophies\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Training Methods and Philosophies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
One of the things I’ve always had an interest in was horse training. And I feel as though in the past five years, the number of different ways you can train your horse has grown exponentially. I keep seeing new horse training methods everywhere I look! The latest one to take off, it seems, is clicker training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I thought perhaps you might be feeling the same: a little overwhelmed by all the options. So today I wanted to take it back to basics for you, and talk about the two broad schools of horse training methods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are traditional horse training, and natural horsemanship.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Within these schools are a number of more specific methods, including things like clicker training<\/a>. Let me know in the comments below if you’re interested in one sub-method, and I’ll write another post about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I figured it makes sense to talk about the older methods first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Traditional horse training is a system that evolved from our early domestication of the horse. As you can imagine, it involved early versions of the reins, bridle and bits to confine and teach the horse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Later, traditional methods were used throughout military history for cavalry horses. Nowadays institutions like the Spanish Riding School and British Horse Society teach using traditional methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHorse Training Methods: Traditional Horse Training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n