Has anyone ever heard of this guy??

Hi all I am new to this forum and to new to horses (past 1yr) I have been trying to research all of the different kinds of horsemanship out there and there seems to be alot. I first got to looking at the natural horsemanship style through a friend and since then I have been moving towards this vaquero stuff, in doing so I came across a guy from Montana named Chris Bohenek and I was wondering if anyone knows anything about him? What he has to say sounds pretty good. Any help would sure be apprieciated.

Bohenek “Core Balance” ? Horsemanship


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>BM

I haven't heard of that guy, but one of my favourite horsemanship people is jonathon feild. His ideas work really well for my horses! You can probably find him on google.

Yeah i think I have heard of the fields guy isn't he from Canada? His stuff looks pretty good but I am looking for someone who is not like all the rest of the rfdtv crowd, plus someone with some of this vquero type of approach, is what I am after.

Thanks for the info though

>BM

He seems like he knows what he is talking about. I would need to know who he had worked with before I spent much money on him but I like his ideas. None of these horseman invented anything so if they talk about how they "discovered" something while watching thier horses I tend to tune out a little but if they fess up and say "I stole this from _____ " then I tend to pay more attention.

I agree 110% what they now call NH has been around for hundreds of years, they only put a price on it and call it theirs. But I really love feilds way of saying it, and his exercises that he uses

I think you posted a clip of him on here and after that I saw more on youtube. One that I really enjoyed was when he was riding a gray horse and had a long pole that he was turning around . I'll try to find it and post it here.

Found it!

that is where i first saw jonathen feild! we were watching the clinics at the mane event and we decided to here what he had to say. i like his sense of humor too, haha i bought a few of his dvd's and they really work on my horses

Most of those old hackamore reinsmen that study the vaquero style do end up with some incredibly well trained horses and one of the reasons that they do is that they spend years preparing the horse to move up to the spade bit which is the culmination of their training. That is the goal that they aim for when they start the horse. I personally don't care for the frame of most the horses or how long it takes to get there but I won't fault the training style. It is one hell of a good method, it is just not for me.

Yeah I agree with this too, what I liked about this guy is that he doesn't name drop though, from my limited horse experience and comparing other horseman I've researched he sounds very similar to Brannaman or Ray Hunt I liked his take on this style of philosphy and the core exercises, even there he mentions how this is nothing new though. Also it's nice to see someone who really is a cowboy most of these guys don't seem to have any "real" world experiences.

>BM

Buck Brannaman, one of the best there is. And does vaquero style. Here is a link of him riding. Everyone can learn so much by watching him ride, over and over again.