People ask me all the time; who’s training phylosophy do you follow ?
My answer is quick and easy: Everything and everyone I can learn from. Even as a professional trainer I want to keep learning every day. I digest it, analize it, try it, maybe change,improve or specialize it. When I like it, and it works for me, I keep it, I teach it, I preach it.
I’ve attended and participated in so many clinics and I always take something home with me. If I learned just one thing (usually a lot more than that) it was worth my time and money, because I’ll be using it over and over again, possibly forever.
My training techniques are just a symphony of what I’ve learned and utilized from others. There are so many good great clinicians and horse professionals, it’s all in about how each and every one presents their material and if it grasps you. Like many quarter-horses go back to ‘Doc Bar’ bloodlines, many (natural) horseman go back to the Dorance’s techniques. I don’t think that any of us re-invented the wheel.
Off course I have people that influenced and inspired me in what I present today. I have some old, old training videos that I still watch over and over again. Some of them, which I thought were worthless 10 years ago, I find valuable today. I know now that 10 years ago I just wasn’t at a level yet to truly understand the information, so I didn’t get much out of it then, but now I do. And I hope I can say the same thing again in 10 years. I hope I’ll never think to be done learning.
So you want names: The horseman I learned most from in regards to performance & reining horse training is Les Vogt. In my opinion he’s unmatched, period.
In natural horsemanship there are too many to list; Pat Parelli, Clinton Anderson, Ray Hunt, Peter Campbell, Chris Cox, John Lions and the list goes on …………..
