L1-Core Skills and Fundamentals Horsemanship Program
PROGRAMS L1-Core Skills and Fundamentals Horsemanship Program
The L1 Horse Training Program is designed to teach the Lyons conditioned-response training methods in greater depth to people seeking more knowledge and understanding in the equine field. Not only can you gain more knowledge, you will acquire the skills to increase your income potential as well.
The methodology of the L1-Core Skills and Fundamentals Horsemanship Program is in a league of its own. The uniqueness of the L1 horse training program is the ability for each individual to develop their own personal strengths to form their own training techniques. The format of the program is consistently evolving to give each student the most updated and progressive training techniques available.
The L1 Horse Training Program will help you develop leadership skills and give you the insight on how to set up clinics, develop sponsor relationships, advertise, and market your business. The students develop lifelong friendships, along with learning how to interact with others in the equine industry to acquire clients and business contacts. Upon completion of this L1 horse training program, the students receive a certificate as a Lyons Legacy Trainer. Each student will learn how to format clinics, apprenticeships and demonstrations utilizing their strengths and skills.
4-week course – total of 160 clock hours (40 clock hours per week)
3 Rules of Training applied to each week
1. Student can’t get hurt
2. Horse can’t get hurt
3. Horse is calmer after the lesson
L1-Core Skills and Fundamentals Horsemanship Program
Chaparosa Ranch
31316 N 152nd St.
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
Tuition – $20,000 USD
Contact our office for information about payment arrangements.
Week 1: Core Fundamentals
Students will learn the core fundamentals of the Lyons Legacy methodology and how they can be applied to a variety of situations you will encounter with your horse.
Mark Training
- Understanding how to make ourselves the mark
- Switching us to the board for the mark
- Building the want to attitude to get to the mark
- Teaching the horse at liberty to find the mark or hunt for the mark
Trailer Loading
- Teaching horse to load in hand
- Teaching horse to load at liberty
- Making the trailer the release and its importance
(3 Different techniques for trailer loading using all the principles above)
Five Releases
- Thought
- Softness / Give
- Responsiveness / movement
- Mark / anything can become the mark
- Poison / looking to improve performance
Five Foundation Steps
- Guide / Most Important
- Give / Softness through body and mouth
- Frame / holding frame on a circle
- Elevation / controlling elevation through 2/3 of the neck
- Position / my position not the horses
Wesson Lesson
- Controlling right, left, forward, back movement
- Adding softness though turns
- Controlling speed
- Drawing horse to you to start liberty work
Bridle Work
- Softening horse through moving a body part
- Connecting nose to the feet
- Starting shoulder control
- Understanding the difference between diagonals, reverse arch, counter bend
- Adding the stop and back up
- Engaging the disengaging the hips – knowing how to use the hindquarters
- Same rein, same foot / connecting horses inside leg to inside rein
Week 2: Groundwork and its Application
Students will learn the methodology of the Lyons training method with the foundation of ground work over the course of their time in our horse training school. Ground work is imperative to the success of the horse trainer as much time and skill is needed in handling their horse. The ground work develops leadership of the trainer, and creates a softer more cooperative partner.
Long Lining
- How to introduce the horse to the long lines
- Understanding the importance of long lining
- Teaching horse to except pressure
- Building form with long lines
- Involving the hip into long diving
- Creating the perfect backup
- Understanding the draw on a horse and how to implement it in training
- Teaching horse how to rate his speed with long lines
- Teaching gear work and its importance to understanding emotional training
Picking up horses’ feet
- Doing it in a safe controlled way
- Connecting the horse’s nose to feet through bridle work
Week 3: Starting the First Rides
Students develop exercises to get their horse to be more responsive to the bridle, and the importance of being able to control different areas of the horse with cues. Students will be able to ride more confidently and with purpose of obtaining a willing respectful partner.
Introducing the saddle to the horse
- Desensitizing the blanket and its importance to emotional control
- How to cinch up a horse for the first time with no complications
- Adding the longlines into ground driving with saddle
- First ride / starting with the backup
- How to introduce your legs
- Teaching horse to stay between the reins and perfecting the guide
- Locking horse on to circle for speed control
- Teaching the serpentines exercise with the shoulder then adding the hindquarters
Week 4: Building the Confident Horse
Students learn exercises to build the horses performance. By building the horses performance students will develop an athlete of a horse that can have the ability to compete in shows of their discipline.
Hand Position and Its Importance
- Containment rein
- Impulsive rein
3 Different Types of Reins (how and when to use them)
- Direct rein
- Indirect rein
- Trap rein
Starting the lead departures
- How to understand leads
- Simple lead changes
- Starting the flying lead change
Transition Work
- Walk, trot, lope
- Transitions made simple
Required Equipment
Student must bring:
- 2 horses
- Halters and lead ropes
- Lunge Whip
- Dressage Whip
- Protective boots or wraps for horses legs
(we recommend Pegasus) - Saddle in good repair and working order
(discipline is not pertinent) - Saddle Pad
- Muck fork/bucket
Required to be Purchased:
