What can I teach my horse using the AAoR?

What can I teach my horse using the AAoR?

The concepts within the AAoR training in itself can teach your horse to understand the basics of performing accurate gymnastic dressage exercises, required for a well educated advanced ridden, driven, non-ridden or liberty horse.

Goal behaviours may differ according to the trainers aims and objectives with each exercise taught will become a basic component for the next exercise and this continues, like building blocks, taking the horse and human right through into the refinement stages of the goal behaviours. If some of the earlier building blocks are not fully or not correctly put in place, the later stages of training will inevitably show a level of failure and progress beyond that stage will not be possible. This can often be corrected by investigating an earlier trained movement and analysing where it may be a little off key and this process of correction should not be feared as it will inevitably continue throughout the horses training.

End goals, which are fair and reasonable are a good idea to have tucked in the back of your mind, but it is important to avoid over focussing on end goals as this can lead to a sense of the human feeling dissatisfied and frustrated about your horses progress to achieve that, and those emotions will detrimentally affect your training because your horse will feel them.

The AAoR is not exclusive to be focussing on one breed, or one goal preference, but each horse will have their own limitations and it is important to remain sympathetic to the horses particular bodily or mental challenges. There will be limitations from every human and every horses’ perspectives, but there is room for flexibility and creative modifications which can be made to find a suitable route. The use of AAoR style of groundwork, lunging, hand work, long reining and the AAoR ridden education are all available to use, but they are not rigid in order of preference or importance and if the horse is not destined to every become a ridden horse, the education from the ground can still be taken to a very advanced level potentially.