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Level 2 - Liberty Tasks
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Tools: Round Corral, Carrot Stick,
Horseman's String
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- "Win" the
Friendly Game with Carrot Stick & Savvy String.
- Drive the hindquarters 360 degrees, both ways.
- Drive the front end 360 degrees, both ways.
- Get your horse
to follow you for one circuit.
- Play the
Circling Game to the right & left, ask your horse to face you.
- Sideways in both directions along a fence.
- Finish with the Friendly Game.
- Cause your horse to "smell his tail" for 10 seconds each side.
- Hold your horse's tongue.
- Simulate
paste-worming your horse.
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Level 2 -
On Line Tasks
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Tools:
Halter & 22'
Line, Carrot Stick & Savvy String
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- Play the Friendly Game in all Zones with a plastic bag tied to a Carrot Stick.
- With plastic bag, drive horse backwards, yield hindquarters and forehand a full circle on each side.
- Play the Yo-Yo Game to back your horse over a pole and return
- Play the Circling Game in both directions showing transitions from the trot to the walk and back to the trot.
- Change directions at the trot, maintaining gait.
- Go sideways without a fence for at least 20 feet, both ways.
- Send your horse into a trailer while sitting on the fender. Count to ten and
then bring him back to you, without getting off the fender.
- With your hand on zone 1, back your horse 20 feet.
- "Push" your horse sideways for at least 20 feet.
- Place
the 22'
Line around a front leg; Play the Yo-Yo Game then lead your horse by the front leg.
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Level 2 -
Freestyle Riding Tasks
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Bareback (PNH Bareback Pad allowed), Cherokee Bridle
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- Mount your
horse.
- Trot a figure of
8.
- Stop straight
and back up for 10 feet.
- Canter for 60
seconds.
- Bend your horse
to a stop and make an emergency dismount.
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Saddle, Snaffle Bridle, Carrot
Stick
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- Send your horse
to the saddle and pad and allow him to sniff them (using halter
and 12' line).
- Saddle your
horse without touching the line.
- Bridle your
horse from your knees.
- Mount your horse
from the ground, then from a fence.
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With Carrot Stick, leave reins on
horse's neck or over saddle horn
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- Trot a figure 8.
- Canter along
arena fence, use Carrot Stick to make downward transitions:
trot, walk, back-up.
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With snaffle bridle
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- Backup in a
straight line for at least 2O feet (9 Step Back-Up).
- Trot a figure of
8 showing two changes of diagonal.
- Using a Casual Rein at the canter, show three simple (drop
to the trot) lead changes.
- Ease your horse
into a gallop for at least 30 seconds.
- Come back to the
canter to prove your horse is settled.
- Still in canter,
place your wrists under your reins and show four flying changes
through a series of S bends.
- Slow down to a
back-up by lifting your wrists into the air.
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Using any equipment or none at all
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- Imagination
task: show something imaginative you can do with your horse.
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Level 2 -
Finesse Riding Tasks
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Tools: Snaffle Bridle, Saddle, Savvy String
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- While
mounted, unbridle you horse (leaving bridle on fence).
- Place
the Savvy String around your horse's
neck and ride backwards, forwards to the right and left and
return to your bridle.
- Go from
Casual to Concentrated and obtain a soft feel.
- Starting on
a Casual Rein, show three Yo-Yo's from trot to back-up using the 9 Step Back-Up
technique.
- Back your
horse through an L pattern (you can use logs or cones,
etc.).
- With
Concentrated reins, Indirect rein to Direct and Supporting
reins moving the hindquarter then the forehand in a
continuous flow.
- Show a full
rotation on the hindquarters using the Direct and Supporting
Rein, one to the right, one to the left.
- Ride
sideways in both directions for at least 20 feet without
using a fence.
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All of the current PNH
Level 2 tasks are covered in the above list. However,
additional tasks have been added that were either in the old PNH
Level 2 assessment, or are have been added from other Natural
Horsemanship practitioners. |