May 3 - 5, 2019 / Mariesbergsgård, Kungälv, SWEDEN
Leslie Desmond
will return to
Mariebergs Gård
Mariebergsgård 260
S-44249 Kungälv, SWEDEN
May 3 - 5, 2019
8:30 - 17:30 daily
Hosted by Ulf & Annelie Karmark
To Registration
CONTACT:
Sara Strand +46 (0) 70 52 88 989 <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Anna Hane +46 (0) 70 73 35 344 <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
For Stabling Contact:
Annelie Karmark: +46 (0)736866474 / Email: <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
HAVE A LOOK AT THIS VENUE!
A Special Event just north of Goteborg
For People and Horses who
LIKE to LEARN
-- to get along in the best possible way -- will love this course!
Special Fitness and Safety Focus to prepare
YOU and YOUR HORSE well for long-term success!
Your horse's soundness for performance
and your safety are priority #1
JOIN US TO CELEBRATE THE LEARNING,
AND GENERATE SOME FUN!!
Join us to celebrate some learning, and LEARNING AND GENERATE THE FUN!
THREE DAYS PRIVATE COACHING
Question and Answer Sessions
at the breaks and afterwards.
This is a way to learn directly from Leslie with your horse.
The registration fee includes all day to watch her
work with other horses and riders.
Question and Answers, you can learn a LOT and have FUN!
Horse owners who are not able to bring their horse are encouraged to attend if they want to learn how Leslie teaches the horses and riders to ...
"reach agreement on a plan".
What does Leslie demonstrate?
She demonstrates the way to apply feel and release techniques that horses instinctively recognize and understand when they see and feel them.
She will teach you how to prepare a horse TO SUCCEED from the start, so corrections are not necessary.
Riders from all disciplines will learn the "feel & release" approach horse handling and riding as taught to her by her late mentor, Bill Dorrance (1906 - 1999) from Salinas, California.
"True Horsemanship Through Feel" is the title of the classic training manual they co-authored and published in 1999.
Find this book and other learning tools in SWEDEN at www.kaptensstallet.com tack shop, or here on Leslie's home page (scroll half way down until you get to the DESMOND OUTFITTER SESCTION!).
Wondering why it is so hard to manage ground work with the rope you currently have? it may be too old, too think, too short, too stiff or hard to use for other reasons.
Leslie offers Blue Bell ropes (available now in 3, 6 and 8 meter lengths) and her custom TIED RIGHT TM HALTERS that promote balance and re-alignment in your horse.
After a few days using this equipment, your horse and you will see, feel and appreciate the difference when doing routine chores and jobs around the ranch and stable, or focused groundwork exercices.
REMEMBER . . .
A safe ride is a well balanced ride!
This begins with good feet, good diet, enough room to move, balanced ground work, equipment that fts and the feel of a clear intention, and a release for the horse in the direction of a well presented, and well understood request or assignment.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN ABOUT?
Leslie specializes in teaching her students how to ride well and maintain balance at speed on a variety of terrain. For those who are not at this point in their capacity or desire, she coaches on the flat, and through various maneuvers that are commonly performed in Eglish and Western disciplines -- these include "finding more forward" in the upward transitions and lateral work, "finding lighter and quicker" downward transitions with little or no pulling, and "well-balanced straightness in the horse & rider" over poles, cavaletti, and low fences.
She helps the horse & rider team to improve and refine their skills in stopping and backing, stillness and patience, turns of many kinds, lead changes, trailer loading/unloading, hoof handling, saddling, bridling, tying, and other aspects of horse handling, riding, and management that are sometimes confusing.
"However that horse is, is how that fella has to be." Bill Dorrance -- January 1996.
She helps her students to better understand and refine their "pressure and release" and "feel and release" skills the way she learned from Bill Dorrance. She assists other trainers, vets, horse shoers and hoofcare specialitst, and equinebody workers knoww to know when to use a specific technique for best results, in different situations and with different types of horses.
Leslie shares with all attendees (riders and spectators) her ways of "reading" (understanding) different horses and their behavior in many difference circumstances. At the end of the course you will have a better appreciation of regular and balanced hoof care standards, and have a start on understanding how to establish / maintain correct bio-mechanics that lead to, and support, soundness without drugs.
Taken together, the goals of this course will be achieved through the combination of demonstration, 4.5 hours per-person of hands-on practice in private coaching sessions.
All horses MUST BE HEALTHY and SOUND.
Riders and spectators will all benefit from the in-depth discussions that arise from Question and Answer sessions held at the breaks between Sessions 1-2 in the morning, and sessions 3-4 in the afternoon.
Spectators from the public are welcome to pre-register online, or pay cash at the door.
PAYING IT FORWARD TO THOSE WHO NEED SUPPORT THE MOST
Children 16 and under are welcome at no charge.
To schedule an event at your facility in 2019 or 2020,
Please send details this email address:
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FEES FOR PARTICIPANTS WHO BRING A HORSE
Spectator Fees
1-day 600 SEK
2-days 1,100 SEK
3-days 1,750 SEK
Rider Fees:
1 Rider / 1 Horse for 3 days 5,850 EK
1 Rider / 2 horses for 3 days 11,450 SEK
Horse and Rider Feel, and Spectator Day Passes
SIGN UP for Rider Positions by April 1, 2019
Anna Hane will collect the fees,
or
in SWEDEN use SWISH, with this phone number:
16022287612
In the payment memo section, please
include your name and the best way to contact you.
For updates and event notices, you can follow Leslie here on Facebook/thefeelofahorse and like the events and news pages!