Fun and Games with Art Grunig! - April 23rd

Fun and Games With Art Grunig!Learn to play games with your horse that improve riding skills!

Games include:

ʻKissingʼ Contest
Treat Racing
Team Trail

There will be a games explanation period, followed by a coached practice session, which will be followed by the games themselves. The winning horse for each game will win a prize! We will have a lunch break between the games practice and the games themselves. The day will end with a sharing of the experience and how the games affect riding including a period of reflection and sharing.

Date: April 23rd
Sign Up: 8:00am
Fee: $100
Call 415-897-8212 to sign up 
Time: 9:00 am till about Noon, 1:00 pm till about 3:00 PM
Location: Willow Tree Stables, Novato, CA

GAMES DETAILS: 

‘Kissing Contest’ 

See how many times your horse can touch a target with its nose without moving faster than a walk. This course consists of astarting point, marked with a cone, and two poles on the ground leading up to a post. Begin at the cone, walk up to the target, ‘kiss’ it with the horse’s nose, and return around the cone as many times as possible. Stepping outside of the poles or going faster than a walk will result in disqualification. How many kisses can you get in?

Treat Racing

Can your horse pick up a treat and make it back across the finish line without dropping it? Begin by crossing the starting line, travel to a barrel with a horse treat of your choice waiting on it, get your horse to pick up the treat and return to the start/finish line. If the treat is dropped, you are out of the contest. Treat racing will have three divisions; first is no faster than a walk, second round is no faster than a trot, and the third round is any safe speed. Separate divisions for bit and hackamore.

Team Trail

Team up with a partner and ride a trail course in tandem! The course will consist of a gate, walk overs, backing, a cone weave, and a figure eight. With the exception of opening and closing the gates for one another, the riders must maintain some degree of an overlap when viewed from the side. All trail work is done at a walk.

ART GRUNIG 707-838-9755  artgrunig@aol.com

Art Grunig has trained horses professionally for forty years. Since 1986 he’s incorporated bodywork so his horses train and perform even better. His successful career includes over 30 championships and reserve championships won by him and his students at regional and national levels. Art has trained horses for reining, cutting, working cow horse, western riding, western pleasure, trail, jumping, dressage, gaited horses, jousting, vaulting, driving, and racing. Art has performed his work form coast to coast in the USA, in Hawaii, Mexico, Italy, the Virgin Islands, and Ethiopia.

Art developed a neurologically based equine bodywork method called Reflex Balancing. Art is also trained in massage, cranio-sacral therapy, lymphatic drainage, and visceral manipulation, watsu and tantsu. He’s studied in the United States, France, and Italy.

While the body work greatly enhances training, the training has done even more to help Art's body work. Having horses to work on every day and ride them too has taught Art what body work techniques truly make a difference.

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For more information about Art go to ArtGrunig.com.