TIPTON HORSEMANSHIP

Ian Tipton is a teacher, trainer and clinician of classical horsemanship. His style of teaching and training shows riders and their horses how to be light, supple and balanced without relying on gadgets or stop gap strategies.

 

For many years Tipton Horsemanship has trained horses using a process steeped in classical tradition. Everything you could ever want to do with your horse, it already knows how to do. A rider’s job is just to become the horse’s guide, and subtly let him know what he should do and when he should do it. Tipton Horsemanship’s style of riding shows the student (and the horse) to communicate through a “signal” rather than contact, allowing the horse to own everything it does. The only way a horse can perform a manoeuver correctly is through straightness, collection, and balance. If left to their own devices they will always carry themselves correctly, but when we start riding them they may become unbalanced and develop problems. Tipton Horsemanship shows riders and their horses how to enter into “self-carriage,” so the horse is always prepared to perform whatever manoeuver is asked of it in the moment. This process is beneficial to all horses regardless of level of training or discipline. Tipton Horsemanship’s colt-starting program initiates freshly started horses immediately into this process. As horses progress in their schooling and their strength and balance increases, their ability to perform high-level maneouvers comes easily and naturally. Many clients come to us with already “finished” performance horses, seeking a more free and natural way of performing. 
This process will allow a horse of any level of training to become more fluid.



Customer Review
November 2014:  I have had a bad experience with two of my horses with the same trainers.... Multiple others were returned hungry and injured. I have pictures to prove my horses condition. Mare returned home with bad injury from barb wire fencing, colt returned home thin with saddle sores;
Mare Injury
Colt Injury

Contact Information
http://www.tiptonhorsemanship.com
https://www.facebook.com/TiptonHorsemanship
Ian Tipton and Rachel Reed
Merritt, British Columbia

tipton.horsemanship@hotmail.com