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| Has anyone been to his Advanced Horsemanship Clinic? I've signed up for one this spring and curious if I should take my semi-seasoned barrel horse, or my coming 4 year old that is super green. Any other feedback on the clinic is appreciated! |
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Location: Central Texas | I have not been to one, ydt, but Phil says to bring your best broke horse. |
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Location: NC | Bumping as I'm also attending one this year and would love to hear what others thought |
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Location: Iowa | I have hosted his clinics a couple of times. You will go through series of level exercises over the weekend. I have always ridden my younger horses. Nothing like a super green two-year-old, but my 4- or 5-year old’s who have had a year or two under their belt. Things will start off slow and pick up as the weekend goes on. If your colt is too green, he may ask you to sit out an exercise and just observe, or if you have a more seasoned horse who is struggling, he may jump on and show you how to work through it. Phil’s clinics are great to learn the basic horsemanship and develop that feel for correctness! Phil will talk a lot, which is great, he is practically a motivational sport psychologist as his clinics. You will get a swag bag with many products from all his sponsors. Lunch should be provided. And, depending on the group, do not be afraid to ask for some one-on-one help after the clinic. At one of my clinics, he set up the barrels and worked on a couple things with a few girls. Phil is also great with kids, we have had many requests for him to come back!
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Location: NC | Rausch_Jessica - 2021-03-23 11:54 AM
I have hosted his clinics a couple of times. You will go through series of level exercises over the weekend. I have always ridden my younger horses. Nothing like a super green two-year-old, but my 4- or 5-year old’s who have had a year or two under their belt. Things will start off slow and pick up as the weekend goes on. If your colt is too green, he may ask you to sit out an exercise and just observe, or if you have a more seasoned horse who is struggling, he may jump on and show you how to work through it. Phil’s clinics are great to learn the basic horsemanship and develop that feel for correctness!
Phil will talk a lot, which is great, he is practically a motivational sport psychologist as his clinics. You will get a swag bag with many products from all his sponsors. Lunch should be provided. And, depending on the group, do not be afraid to ask for some one-on-one help after the clinic. At one of my clinics, he set up the barrels and worked on a couple things with a few girls. Phil is also great with kids, we have had many requests for him to come back!
This is great to know! Thank you!! Are you allowed to bring more than one horse? I was planning on bringing my (coming) 3 year old but I will have my older running horse there as well (my mom is bringing one and we have 3 horses. Can't leave one home alone for the weekend). I'm looking forward to it.
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Location: Iowa | I would think it would be acceptable to bring numerous horses. You may not end up switching horses because the exercises really building on each other, but you can maybe ride one after the clinic hours and ask for one on one pointers. |
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