Building Your Dream Horse: Charles Wilhelm's Ultimate Foundation Training
True horsemanship training is about people first.--Charles Wilhelm
Charles Wilhelm's Ultimate Foundation Training has transformed thousands of horses into more responsive, mannerly companions. In this book, Wilhelm trains you to use his tried and true principles in training your horse. Go inside the horse's mind to see how he thinks and learns, so you can communicate in a language your horse understands. Discover why and how foundation training works. Wilhelm's uniquely successful methods will help you build a relationship that's more rewarding for both you and your horse--one that lasts a lifetime.
- Discover why working with your horse should be fun--and why you should stop if it isn't
- Learn to identify your horse's emotional level and personality type
- Find out the ten secrets your horse wishes he could tell you
- Understand why consistency is essential in establishing desired behavior
- Communicate with your horse using the right combination of pressure and release, patience, persistence, and conscientious follow-through
- Recognize why it's never, ever the horse's fault
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Book details
- Author
- Charles Wilhelm, Allison Houston
- Imprint
- Howell Book House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 208
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Pets › Horses
- Topics
- horsemanship · horse training · horse behavior · horse and rider relationship · equestrian skills · owning a horse
- ISBN-13
- 9780764579158
About the author
CHARLES WILHELM is a horse trainer with over four decades of experience and the creator of Ultimate Foundation Training, a system combining traditional, classical, and natural horsemanship techniques. His books include Starting Baby Jaz and Building Your Dream Horse: Charles Wilhelm’s Ultimate Foundation Training.
Wilhelm has been featured in Horse Illustrated and Horse & Rider Magazine, writes columns for equestrian publications, and has appeared on television. His training spans dressage, working cow horse, reining, and western pleasure, with particular focus on problem horses and colt starting.
When not writing, Wilhelm draws on study with John Lyons, classical dressage trainer Major Miguel Tavora, Olympic dressage medallist Steffen Peters, and western pleasure expert Richard Shrake. That breadth of influence underpins the cross-disciplinary approach at the heart of his work.
Charles lives in Aiken, South Carolina.