Articles by Ron and Faith Meredith. Faith Meredith coaches riders in dressage, reining, and eventing and has successfully trained and competed horses through FEI levels of dressage. She is the Director of Meredith Manor International Equestrian Centre.

Instructor and trainer Ron Meredith has refined his "horse logical" methods for communicating with equines over 30 years as president of Meredith Manor International Equestrian Centre (Route 1, Box 66, Waverly, WV 26184; 1-304-679-3128; http://www.meredithmanor.com), an ACCET accredited equestrian educational institution.

• Managing Activity Levels
  
  
• Aids Versus Cues
  
  
• Keeping a Horse's Attention
  
  
• Training with Attitude
  
  
• Teaching Your Horse to Back
  
  
• Developing Balance: Exercises
  
  
• The Training Tree: Balance
  
  
• Back To Basics
  
  
• Choosing Bits
  
  
• Loud Bits Destroy Communication
  
  
• Pressure and Body Language
  
  
• Breaking Vs. Training
  
  
• Don't Hold Your Breath
  
  
• The Training Tree: Collection
  
  
• The Training Tree: Contact
  
  
• The Daily Training Routine
  
  
• Tools of the Training Trade: Equipment
  
  
• Developing Balance: Using Your Horse's Feedback
  
  
• The Training Tree: Freedom of Gaits
  
  
• Games People Play
  
  
• Horse-Logical Communication Starts With Grooming
  
  
• Why Good Training Starts on the Ground
  
  
• Working In Corridors: Heeding - Part 2 of 3
  
  
• Advanced Ground Control: Heeding - Part 3 of 3
  
  
• Horse Logic Body Building
  
  
• The Training Tree: Impulsion
  
  
• Intensity and Activity
  
  
• Teaching a Horse to Lead
  
  
• "Leading" Is Misleading: Heeding - Part 1 of 3
  
  
• Psychological Pressures and the Learning Zone
  
  
• Learning from Horses: Sue
  
  
• Learning from Horses: Mama
  
  
• Learning from Horses: Plute
  
  
• Primary and Secondary Lines
  
  
• Applied Heeding: Loading the Scared Horse
  
  
• Applied Heeding: Loading the Disobedient Horse
  
  
• Horse Logic
  
  
• Tools of the Training Trade: Keeping Logs
  
  
• Teaching Your Horse to Longe
  
  
• Mastering "Natural" Horsemanship
  
  
• Learning to Master "Now"
  
  
• The Training Tree: On the Aids
  
  
• Pattern Building
  
  
• Using Physical Pressures in Training
  
  
• Tools of the Training Trade: Lesson Plans
  
  
• Using Pressures To Shape The Horse
  
  
• Dealing with Rearing and Pulling
  
  
• The Three Times You Should Punish Your Horse
  
  
• Recipes for Riding
  
  
• The Training Tree: Relaxation
  
  
• The Training Tree: Rhythm
  
  
• Scare Training and Sue Again
  
  
• Self Control Precedes Horse Control
  
  
• Applied Heeding: Handling Stallions
  
  
• Teaching Your Horse to Stand
  
  
• The Training Tree: Straightness
  
  
• The Importance of Directing Every Stride
  
  
• The Training Tree: Suppleness
  
  
• The Training Tree: Putting it all Together
  
  
• Applied Heeding: Basic Trailer Training
  
  
• Trick Horses Vs. Trained Horses
  
  
• Whips & Spurs and All That Excitement
  
  

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