“A horse cannot distinguish between a correct lesson and a wrong lesson. The horse only knows he was taught something. It is up to you to decide which one he learns." - Scot Hansen

In Improving Your Balance and Feel Using a Bareback Pad Scot Hansen shows you what you need to do in order to improve your balance and feel by using a bareback pad.

You will learn:

- The benefits of using a bareback pad

- Features to look for in a pad

- How to safely begin – at the walk, being led

- How to focus on your horse’s movements

- How to advance to trotting and cantering

The techniques are broken down so that you can easily see how to begin the training, how to position yourself and what aids you need to give your horse.

Scot Hansen is a retired mounted police officer who trained officers and horses, purchased remounts, and worked the streets. He has had the opportunity to ride horses in and around obstacles that the average person never encounters -- spots like railroad yards, tunnels, freeways, bars, crowd control, stadiums, fireworks, and under hovering helicopters.

He has learned his trade through numerous schools and clinics and most of all by “living it.” Having participated with many of today’s top Natural Horsemanship clinicians he has also had training from classical dressage instructors and has a good working knowledge of dressage. This broad background gives Scot a vast working knowledge of what it takes to have a horse perform in a variety of disciplines and environments.

Scot has a great respect for the horse -- and for the unbounded potential in the human-horse relationship. His philosophies and training methods are based on fundamental horse behavior -- applicable to every horse in every situation. Scot’s “HorseThink” methods have proven to be effective for all types of horses and riders. Age doesn’t matter, either in the human or the horse, nor does the breeding, type of tack used, or the equine sport undertaken.