Tell me something about yourself to help me help you.
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What is your current involvement with horses?
What are your long-term goals with respect to horses?
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Please provide a candid assessment of your limitations. This could be a physical limitation; emotional concerns where learning new things are concerned, could be anything. This information will help in developing a flexible, customized approach to you and your horse, and the dynamic between you in the circumstances that unfold over the course of the clinic.
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Please describe as fully as you can, all horse related injuries, or injuries sustained elsewhere, that currently or potentially affect your physical capacities with your horse or your mental/emotional perspective about certain exercises, tasks or this clinic generally.
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What aspects of your horsemanship are you working on? Do you take lessons? What other things do you do to improve your horsemanship?
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What specifically about your horsemanship would you like to improve through working with Billy?
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Have you ridden in one of Billy’s clinics previously? If so, have you been able to develop and expand on any of the things you learned, please be as specific as possible here.
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What have you been working on long term that should be fixed by now? Why aren't these areas fixed, in your opinion?
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Now, please tell me about your horse that you are bringing to the clinic.
Include details about his age, breed, size, physical and mental condition, training and use history. If there is something that you feel especially proud of, do not hesitate to let Billy know.
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If there is something about the horse that you are not feeling good about, and it was not already stated in your answers to the previous questions, please state that situation, episode or character trait as clearly as you can.
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Why are you bringing this particular horse to the clinic?
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If not already stated, what is your assessment of your horse's strengths? Limitations?
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What do you like best about the horse you are bringing to the clinic? What do you like least about this horse?
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Does your horse eat from your hand? If so, how often?
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Is this horse well suited for the current work you do together? If not, what sort of improvements would you like make with this horse?
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What short-term and long-term goals have you set for your horse, if any?
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If or when your horse becomes pushy or distracted, and if he bumps into you or cannot seem to give you the space you require, please describe the circumstances.
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Please describe how your horse handles on the end of a lead rope.
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What amounts of time do you set-aside in order to load your horse a trailer, and how would you describe the experience of loading and unloading your horse from the trailer. What types of trailers does he load into easily?
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What sort of trailer presents you or the horse with a formidable challenge when it is time to go somewhere?
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| Thank you for your thoughtful reply to these questions! |
