A blog that focuses on our unique program that teaches natural horsemanship, heritage breed conservation, soil and water conservation, and even folk, roots, and Americana music. This blog discusses our efforts to prevent the extinction of the Corolla Spanish Mustang. Choctaw Colonial Spanish Horse, Marsh Tacky, and the remnants of the Grand Canyon Colonial Spanish Horse strain.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Quick Tip # 39 Maintain Sufficient Reserves
Yesterday, while examining my injured shoulder; the doctor took a look at my right bicep which tore in two a few years ago. It did not grow back together. As a result I knew that it is weaker than my left arm. I had never measured how much weaker.
The doctor said that such injuries result in a permanent 60% loss of strength.
The point being that a prudent horse trainer should maintain sufficient strength in his arms such that at any time 40% of said strength greatly exceeds 100% of the strength of a city person's arm.
One must always be prepared.
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Being a little skinny guy, especially having to stop or fend off a spooked horse...I try to keep Bill Dorrance in mind...at a roping clinic on his 94th birthday...and of course the sentiment that the human brings 5 pecent physical 95 percent mental to the game and the horse will return it many times over. And to think, I have friends who think I am nuts for riding wild horses...poor folks.
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