THE WORLD’S FIRST AND ONLY ROOKIE GUIDE

HEVOSAGILITY by Koikka Loikka

CONTENTS:

What is Horse Agility? 3

Special agility hurdles and obstacles 5

Straight to the track!  Questions and answers about agility 7

Simple instructions—how horses are taught agility? 17

Control of the Trainer’s Personal Space 17

Teaching the Lane 18

STOP signal 19

Reverse signal 19

Yield signal 21

Teaching the yield signal with physical touch 23

Training the horse to be attentive and to follow 27

Join-up 27

Kwik-Spell 27 :)

Blocking 30

Leading 30

Forward signal 32

Forward, left, right 33

Running 35

Jumps 41

Calling jump 41

Jump on the side 42

Sending away jump 43

Pole bending 47

Tarps 49

Resting place 49

Trail 49

Water obstacle 51

Beam 53

Break Square 57

Tunnel 59

Loop jump 63

The horse trailer and  free loading 65

        

          Pictures and text

           Koikkaloikka & Co.

  Printing and the lack of graphic planning

         Kalev Tyllinen