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HTM 154
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Title: | Advanced Performance Training |
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Long Title: | Advanced Performance Training |
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Course Description: | Provides each student with two horses to start and train in the following: bitting and driving; standing still while being saddled, bridled, and mounted; working on the rail, taking proper leads, loping in circles, stopping and backing. The student will also receive instruction in the advanced techniques of the following: Teaching the horse to flex and bend, do roll-backs, and 360 degree turns on the hind quarters; to make simple lead changes and counter arcs, and backing at a counter arc. The student will also learn supervision skills while supervising feed crews. This course will end with student participating in the HTM Semester Horse Show. |
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Min Credit: | 8 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
I. Students will learn to:
II. Catch, hobble, saddle, and bridle horse
III. Teach horse to trot and lope circles
IV. Stop and back
V. Turn both directions
VI. Take leads
VII. Open and shut gates
VIII. Move and control horses shoulders
IX. 360 degree spins
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Week 1
A. assign horses and stalls
B. ground work
II. Week 2
A. hobble
B. saddle
C. bridle
D. ride
III. Week 3
A. ride in arena
B. trot circles
C. riding quiz
IV. Week 4
A. loping circles
B. pivots and rollbacks
V. Week 5
A. riding quiz
B. loping circles
C. turning
VI. Week 6
A. two-tracking
B. pressing off
VII. Week 7
A. riding quiz
B. stops
C. 180 degree turns
VIII. Week 8
A. spring break
B. free riding
IX. Week 9
A. rollbacks
B. circles
C. 180 degree turns
D. mid-terms
X Week 10
A. demonstrations
B. 360 degree spins
XI. Week 11
A. 360 degree spins
B. stops
XII. Week 12
A. ride with individual instruction
B. prepare for spring show
XIII. Week 13
A. final exams
B. halter
C. riding
XIV. Week 14
A. spring show
B. horses go home
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