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Chris
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Username: stevens
Post Number: 575
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008 - 5:23 pm: |   |
As promised, here is my review of the Jane Savoie Happy Horse Home Study Course.
This course has something for everyone's learning style. It comes complete with an extensive book, DVD lessons and also CDs. In short, you get the same message delivered in writing, in video, and in lecture format. I like to read the lesson first (and take the little quiz at the end to reinforce the concepts), then watch the DVD, then listen to the CD while driving to the barn.
In all honesty, I can't say that I've really discovered something new but I can say that concepts I thought I understood are more clear to me and I have a much better appreciation for some basic principles upon which much else is built. I have a better strategy for riding and training that is logical and working wonders for me.
Yes, it is pricey at about $600, however this works out to less than $30 per lesson. It's really a screaming deal.
I will confess that I have Jane's Cross-Train Your Horse books and did not, at first, think I liked them. In retrospect, I was confident at the time that the problem I was having with the canter was "just" a canter problem and so I skipped ahead to that chapter. Surprisingly enough, the information there did not help me. Only when I accepted that maybe, possibly, there were some holes in my basic education and went back to the beginning to correct those, did things start to fall into place.
In short, I highly recommend this product. |
