1. If you are wrestling, you aren’t training. Absolute Horsemanship is training through trust and communication. Wrestling and using force does not build trust, and it does not foster communication. Any fool can use force, the wise use grace.

2. Horses who don’t respect, don’t bow.
The bow is the first milestone in Absolute Horsemanship. Although the road to the bow isn’t always smooth, it is ultimately achieved through trust and communication, not force. Wrestling a horse into a bow just proves that you can wrestle a horse into a bow.

4. Horses can’t read, so don’t give them deadlines. Strong relationships aren’t built under the pressure of deadlines. What some can achieve in days, may take others months or even years. Absolute Horsemanship is about building a strong, healthy relationship, not the accomplishment of a task. Finishing a task is a result of the strong relationship, not the root of it.

5. Good trainers don’t keep secrets. Absolute Horsemanship is horsemanship free of secrets. Our knowledge added to your God-give talent should make you better than we. If this does not become truth, then one of us has failed.

~ Jackie Johnson
~ Brenda Sapergia

• Step By Step Trick Training

Reaching Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, England, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Greece and Argentina, Jackie Johnsons "Step By Step Trick Training" is a detailed manual that follows the training of a number of horses. Over 150 pages in length and over 200 photographs, this book illustrates simple sequences so that the reader knows what to expect when training. Photos and text illustrate potential problems and tips on how to handle a situation should it arrise. Using the Principles of Absolute Horsemanship, Jackie Johnson explains how to train your horse exceptional things like; Smile, March, Pedestal, Salute, Bow, Kneel, Lie Down, Crawl, Sit Up, Rear and much, much more. Work is done at liberty, in hand and while riding. Not just 'trick training,' Jackie Johnson builds better relationships so that everyone can achieve Absolute Horsemanship

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• 2004 Show and Clinic Schedule

Brenda Sapergia and Jackie Johnson show how personality and communication styles, of both horses and their handlers, can make the difference between training success and training disaster. After highlighting personality and communication styles, they then teach horse owners how to cope when conflicts exist. Using the Principles of Absolute Horsemanship, they show you how to use the best of your personality and communication style, to get the most from your horse. They help build a better relationship between you and your horse so that you can achieve things like: Bow, Lie Down, Pedestal, Salute and much, much more. More importantly, they make horsemanship affordable, achievable and fun - regardless of the age of you, or your horse.

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• Western Canada Farm Progress Equine Expo

Jackie Johnson and Brenda Sapergia introduced the Principles of Absolute Horsemanship at the first ever Western Canada Farm Progress Equine Expo with 26, trained horses. The viewing audience (some from as far away as New Zealand and Ecuador) watched as horses, and donkeys (displaying the utmost trust in their handlers) bowed, kneeled, lay down, sit up, stepped onto a pedestal and gave a smile, salute or handshake. In a 'first of its kind presentation', Johnson and Sapergia captivated their audience, with what can only be described as the Evolution of Horsemanship.

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