Video Guide

Informational Videos:
Horse Training
 How to deal with head shy horses        Lunging Chuck for a warm up for our lesson
How to ride with a bridle       How to ride in just a halter        How to ride with one rein
How to ride with just a neck rope       How to teach your hose to turn and flex  
How to make your horse back without even touching them   How to post on the correct diagonal
Horse Care
How to get burrs out of your horses hair    How to give your horse medicine
How to tell if your horse is staying warm     How to put petroleum jelly in your horses hooves
How to do English braids with bands      How to give your horse a bath                                             How to desensitize your horse to different footing    Find a horses pulse and pull a shoe
 Other Horse How To's
 How to tie a rope halter  How to groom your horse  How to pick hooves     How to tack up english           How to put on an english bridle          How to clean your sadde        How to mix flyspray         How to clean your boots   How to put together an english saddle   
How to clean your brushes Part 1      Part 2    Part 3      How to help keep your horse's water cool
Quick stall cleaning Part 1   Part 2  Full stall clean out Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5
How to move a hay ring (in style ;) )
 My Music Vids
Horse Life    We are One   Here I am (Chuck and Alisha)   Me and My Gang (Our Gang)  
A girl and her horse (Alisha and Chuck)
Riding/Working Our Horses
Chucks lesson 3-28-13    Riding Jack and Pearl        Galloping Jack bareback                       Galloping Jack horseback POV  Riding Chuck 1 Riding Chuck 2  Riding Chuck 3  Riding Chuck 4
Riding Chuck 5  Riding Chuck 6  Riding Chuck 7  Riding Chuck 8 Riding Chuck 9 Riding Chuck 10 Riding Chuck 11 Riding Chuck 12  Riding Jack & Chuck 13  Riding Jack  
Neat vids of our horses messing around and random horse stuff
Messing With Chuck The steaming wheelbarrow! Chuck LOVES to run! Horses waiting to be feed 
Our obstacle course Chuck:) Jet is a weirdo! How to use a sweat scraper (it has a whole bunch after) 
Our groom box and my room  Our tack Part 1  Our tack part 2  (shows both western and english tack and their parts :)  Chuck getting his hooves done
 Other Cool/Interesting horse videos
Iowa State Horse fair amazing rider    Mounted shooting Iowa State Horse Fair   
Dayton parade opening     Dayton parade more horsies    Watermellon days parade horses 
Dayton Serpentien Riders "Let there be Cowgirls"    Dayton Wild horse race 1   Dayton WHR 2
Dayton Barrel Racers 1  Dayton barrel racers 2    High Bridge horse farm one of the shows
Non-horse videos
Cool way to peel a hard-boiled egg (not very reliable tho)  Black Hawk Helicopter take off   
Gigantic Jenga!  My great dane puppy Pt 1  My great dane puppy Pt 2  Why band students shouldn't have study hall Pt 1 and Pt 2  Riding in the open Jeep  Summer dog treat part 1 and part 2                7B ranch tour  Decorating the Christmas tree  Cute baby cows 
Brian Imbus at the Hamilton County Fair 
Part 1     Part 2     Part 3     Part 4     Part 5     Part 6     Part 7  

 

New Videos!

 So sorry for not posting, but here are some informational videos. The first is a video on one of the methods my family and I use to get burrs out of your horses mane. This can be a big problem if they are out in the pasture. The second video is a video about posting on the correct diagnoals. This is mainly an english thing, but it can be used in western riding too. Finally the last video is just a short video of me riding at the canter from a horseback point of view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxhyXptvbhU  How to get burrs out of your horses mane/tail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78IkuxVF4d0   How to post to the correct diagnoals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEPgOiBFykg   Cantering Chuck horseback POV

Trainers....What do you think of Parelli now?

Hey guys, just thought I would let you guys take a look at this video, at least the first part for now, and let you know how I see this.

         I agree with almost everything Rick is describing it this video. So now that you all see this, always learn as much as you can about people, you never know what they are really like, Linda is widely known, she has her lively hood at stake, she does this on her training videos, if I had bought this and saw this, I would have asked for a refund, I wouldn't want to use this training method, if this is just ground work what else happens behind closed doors? It just makes you think. Linda Parelli is a BIG name horse trainer, what do you guys think of this? Do you want this happening to your horse? How in the world is this right? The horse is confused and scared because of the person,

Good riding day!

Hey guys! So today was a fun day, we had our 2nd thanksgiving meal, we had one at my grandmas, and then one at our house, then after we ate, me and roni went out to ride, it was an AMAZING day to ride, and if you didn't make it outside to ride today you are INSANE!!! It was like 50 but it felt a lot warmer, I had a long sleeve shirt on and I was nice and sweaty when we were done, so was Chuck roni was wearing a t-shirt and she was fine, and she just worked with Jack on reining and foot positioning and backing. Chuck and I worked on transitions today, we worked on walk-halt, walk-trot, trot-halt, halt-trot, halt-canter, trot-canter canter-trot, canter-halt, and walk-canter. He did AMAZING!!! He still needs to work on the halt-canter, but everything else is show-worthy transitions, I loved it so much!!! There were a few times as soon as I asked for the canter he only took the one step needed to get into the correct lead, and he is getting so much better about picking up the right lead, he only picked up the wrong lead once and I was so happy for him!!! Chuck had worked up a good sweat, so we went on a trail ride, we were walking along, and a car came by, Jack wasn't looking, so he spooked at it, and Roni im SOOOO proud of you cause you handled it so well. She let him do his thing for a few seconds, and then went on like nothing happend! Yay! So lesson here is don't make a big deal out of something like that, just be calm, and your horse will realize there was no danger, nothing to spook about, another car drove by, and he didn't even really pay attention, his ears flicked forward, then started rotating around listining to roni and other things again. So proud of how the horses did today, I have 3 videos for you guys tomorrow when I can upload them from my phone, one is how to get burrs out of your horses mane, the other is how to post on the correct diagonal from horseback POV, and the other is cantering Chuck around horseback POV this was just our warm up, so we I wasn't focoused on transitions, so he had a little free time to kinda just relax and just stretch out and get loosend up before we got down to work. So overall it was an AWESOME day! So I have an idea in my mind, but im not sure if it will happen yet, so I won't say it, but if it does happen it will be over x-mas break and it will be so fun!

Videos!!!

How to make your horse back without touching them or even pulling on the halter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xaa-dujq9A
Grabbing chuck for the above video :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfcI2HwqNkk
Friday night Dayton Wild horse race! Our horses halter got stuck in the shute, so we didn't even get to do anything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5uEHpeHL98
Dayton Iowa Serpentien Riders "Let there be Cowgirls" performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVOOZbJgeRQ
Dayton Wild Horse Race we got 2nd this night I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iFxSIiVgrE
Dayton  barrel racers there are 2 different videos, I had to stand in my spot for at least one of them, but I didn't want to leave on the second one because we had just won the Wild horse race championships!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wY8LdWad6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7aLHp0-7cw  <--- My spot!! It was interesting, a bull came out of the shute during one of the girl's runs, haha bet that made the horse run faster!

Funny Pictures

Hey guys there are some funny pictures I have collected over the few years, so here they are!!     

                

      

 

Exciting Morning!

Hey guys, so the horses bout gave my a heart attack this morning! When somebody comes in the house and yells “their out!” me and roni drop everything and I do mean DROP the horses had gotten out, and they were out by the road/field, all of this happening as the bus was coming down the road! We got 3 leads,  and ran out, so like I said about being able to lead Chuck by sticking my thumb in his mouth really came in handy, I caught him and brought him to my mom, my mom threw a rope over his neck, and this is another good thing that all of our horses know, If there is a rope over your neck you act like its attached to your halter and follow the person. They all know this for the most part, I got a rope and threw it over Jets neck, and grabbed Jack by the halter, by this time the bus had been there a little while and was waiting for us on the road, Lucky never wants to be caught but he will sure follow! Roni grabbed Pearl, and we all headed back to the gate down our drive a little ways, they had been all out in the field by the road behind our house. Lucky stopped a little ways before the gate, so I ran grabbed Chuck and ran way out into the pasture to get everybody to follow along with lucky. Another good thing that Chucks so well trained in leading rope on his neck, and me running as fast as I can. If he was a pushy horse that wouldn’t work well.  Lucky eventually came in, and as soon as that was done, I let Chuck go, and ran for the house to get my laptop bag, and my binder that had all my papers fly out of it and my poptart case without my pop-tarts in it. So an EXCITGING way to start the morning!