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Fun, Friendly, & Five Gaited! |
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Training At The Icelandic Horse Farm |
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We use TTEAM Training Methods with our horses at The Icelandic
Horse Farm, which greatly enhances the horse's abilities to adapt to a lot
of different situations. Linda Tellington-Jones, the founder of TTEAM is
Robyn's sister and Robyn is the only other teacher of Instructors in the
TTEAM and TTOUCH work. This takes her traveling throughout the world, just
in the past 2 months she was in Germany, England and Australia, Hawaii is
next on her itinerary.
Looking at physical comfort and balance are key factors in TTEAM.
Icelandics are asked to tolt with a higher head carriage and a common
mistake some trainers make is getting the tolt by simply pulling the head
up, which causes the horse's back to drop, it's withers to get jammed and
discourages a soft and for the horse comfortable gait. By applying the
TTOUCH on the horses body, raising the horse's back and teaching him how
to properly carry himself in balance and without tension we find our
horses not only improve their gaits, but are also easier to tolt for
people inexperienced with gaited horses.
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The ground exercises, where the horse is lead over a variety of
challenging obstacles, teach the horses to carry themselves in different
postures, to change their balance and in the case of a less confident
animal he will learn to stop, breathe and think when encountering a
frightening object, rather than freeze or bolt. In the summer we offer
weeklong as well as weekend trainings where people from North America as
well as Europe spend a fun filled week learning about the Icelandics
horses, riding them and putting the TTEAM work to practice.