Long Reining with Double Dan: Safe, Controlled Ground Techniques for Building Partnership, Achieving Softness, and Overcoming Training and Behavioral Issues

Are you ready to build a stronger partnership with your horse? Hoping to achieve a remarkable softness from the ground before you swing into the saddle? Starting a youngster or working to overcome training and behavioural problems in an older mount? Becoming bored with endless round-penning? Australian equestrian stars Dan James and Dan Steers of Double Dan Horsemanship are here to show every horse owner the basic steps to an infinitely useable training skill: long-reining. If ever there was hidden treasure in the diverse and ever-evolving realm of horsemanship, it is this underused but incredibly valuable practice. Long-reining benefits every equestrian discipline as - James and Steers demonstrate - improving the horse’s self-carriage and responsiveness to the aids, and your feel and timing, and all from a safe and controlled position on the ground. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ‘Minion Pro’} p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ‘Minion Pro’} Bring long-reining into your barn with these 20 easy-to-understand lessons, explained step-by-step with full-colour photographs, including how to:

use and hold long reins introduce them to your horse navigate with accuracy and change speed perform lateral work that improves your horse’s flexibility and overall movement.

You, and your horse, will enjoy the drive.