- Hardcover: 177 pages
- Publisher: Breakthrough Pubns (March 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0914327186
- ISBN-13: 978-0914327189
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 458 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #462,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This revised English-language translation of a work originally published in German describes the horse training methods developed by the authors at the Equine Test Center in Reken, West Germany. Starting with gentle touch and massage all over the horse's body to gain its confidence and discover any sore areas, the training technique is geared to meet the horse's psychological and physiological needs. The ideas are sensible and well-grounded in accepted training methods, but sufficiently different in use of touch to make the book unique. Recommended. Joanne K. Hammond, formerly with Pennsylvania State Univ. Lib., Mont Alto
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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If You're Serious About Good Horsemanship Techniques. . ., May 10 2012
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This review is from: An Introduction to the Tellington-Jones Equine Awareness Method: The T.E.A.M. Approach to Problem-Free Training (Hardcover)
DON'T buy this book!A little background on myself. I have been riding and training for over 30 years and have spent a lifetime around horses. I am also an avid student of natural horsemanship and the great trainers of our time.
I became aware of Linda Tellington Jones in the early 1990's as a pre-veterinary student and became tremendously interested in the T-Touch approach to handling animals as a method of therapy. Because of my approval of her work, methodology and general philosophy using the T-Touch method, I bought ths book as an addition to my prodigious collection of horse books.
Though I was and still on many levels respect the work of Linda and her T-Touch methods, this book on horse training, though generally sound in some "ideas" is not a book for the novice trainer to emmunlate or the advanced horseman to get any practical advice from.
Starting with her list of "stereotypes" which according to her, define the very nature and personality of the horse (i.e. Roman noses and small eyes indicate a stubborn, intractable personality and low intellegence), she is remarkably off target for someone who claims to know a great deal about horses!
In addition, her advocacy of nose chains for ALL horses in training goes against every principle of good horsemanship. "You can't train through gentleness alone. . . you will need to use tools that will enable you to communicate in a clear, brief and specific way. . . a rope halter won't work," are some of the "sage" claims she makes. The natural horsemanship trainer in me cringes with every picture I see of a horse with a chain across it's nose and descriptions of horses being disciplined with the butt end of riding crops.
The one redeming quality of this book is her inclusion of some T-Touch methods. But while there is only one chapter devoted to this in her book, there are many more books out there on T-Touch that are far more comprehensive.
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