I have hesitated to
write about horse training videos simply because I really do not like
to rate or evaluate other peoples work, in some ways it is not fair
because it is just my opinion and the truth for you may be to get the
video and see for yourself. I decided to simply tell you about the
videos I own and how I valued them. for my own use
Here is a list of
videos I own:
Frank
Bell
Discover the Horse You
Never Knew - If I could own only
one video this would be it, great all around video to help you with
your horse.
John
Balkenbush
First Impressions your
Colt's First Human Encounter - A
horseman's guide to foal handling, now this is my personal favorite,
for a lot of reasons; John is a friend of mine, Some of my horses are
in the video, John sings the opening song "things
that Work"
I like the song and he shares just that in this video Things that have
worked for John as a Montana horse rancher.
Mike
Bridges
Bridle Course
California Vaquero Style of Bridleing, Mike knows as much about bits
for horses as anyone I have met so if you want to know all about horse
bitting, this is a good place to start.
Larry
Trocha
The Essence of
Horsetraining I have a lot of
Larry's tapes they are detailed and easy to listen to, I like them.
Buck
Brannaman
Horsemanship
I have several of Buck's tapes they show what Buck can do, however how
much you get out of them is questionable, or it could just be me?
Pat
Parelli
Natural Horse-man-ship
Course Pat is rather
self-involved when he is not making time with the interviewer(aka the
blonde lady) but if you get past all that he does some cool stuff, try
it with some horses and you could be dead, otherwise be my guest. A
better bet is his cheap book in the Western Horseman. (update2006) I
tried again purchased Harmony 2 tapes, next week they updated package
to new material I loose again on this deal but tapes are good.
Wil
Howe
From foundation to
finished training video series,
Wil and his wife Beverly do a good job on these videos, you can get a
lot done with them, if you are a good rider, I'd caution these may not
be the best for starting out your horse training career with, Wil is
probably the best rider I personally have ever seen, so his stuff does
require some balls and experience.
John Lyons
I got his ground training manual and riding manual as well as this
riding the unbroke horse dvds, John does a very nice job on
these a definite two thumbs up and a big atta boy :- )even better than his previous horse training videos
