Hempfling - Recognize Your Horse 5 - All Riders Horsemanship Basics

Feel your horse, know your horse thoroughly. Learn about horses' characters. Fantastic horses explained and described. http://www.hempfling.com/ - With pleasure we present you the 5th and last part of our horse-characterization series. By the way: Harmón, the protagonist of our video: 'Introducing Impressive Harmón', is a rare mixture of The King and Pegasus you will find both these characters described in this clip.
Exactly this mixture makes him so strong but also so decided and uncompromising as well in the decision to back out. Distance and nearness both is either 100 % there or not.

How well do you know your own horse; can you really say he reveals all of himself to you? At the heart of the work of Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling is the precise recognition of a horse's nature in only a few seconds, followed by his transformation within minutes of the first encounter.

In order to make this transperant, he created his unique system of horse characterization with its 26 individual characters. In this system it is all about the 'outer and inner' characteristics of the horse and its behaviour. It is about the fundamental understanding of the horse's nature, about coming together and communication.

In Klaus' book 'What Horses reveal' (J.A.Allen, UK/Trafalgar Square, USA) you may find a detailed description of all the 26 characters and the related working strategies. You may also find further information about the issue on his web-site: www.hempfling.com. If you would like to know which characters are represented in your horse, Klaus offers Horsecharacterization by phone.

About Klaus' work there are several other videoclips presented on YouTube - please have a look at the favorites on our channel nature2promotion.

The following text is from the web-site www.hempfling.com:

Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, with his professional background in communications has shaken up the international horse world. He is at the forefront of new ideas on working and interacting with horses. The basis of his work is consideration for the horse's psyche, communication via a body language that is understood by the horse and interaction with these powerful, beautiful, dignified creatures in accordance with nature. The development of the rider's "presence" and an orientation to holistic principles is integral to this work. Klaus' first book, "Dancing with Horses" (translated into more than 10 languages), met with overwhelming international success; thousands of spectators have witnessed a way of interacting with horses that made the horses the teachers, the bearers of mysteries, whose proximity could transform human lives.

Klaus has the ability to "know" a horse within a few seconds and within a few minutes of the first meeting, he establishes a relationship so firmly that anything after that is completely based on trust. In his Borderline Demonstrations he transforms dangerous, nervous, traumatized, any kind of horse into cooperative companions. They recognize him as their leader, and become willing partners in groundwork and under saddle.

This video describes important parts of the horse therapist Klaus Ferdinand Hempflings work. For a better and correct understanding and to avoid misunderstandings, it is helpful to connect this video with his background, added in the following:
Klaus lived with wild horses in wilderness to observe their animal language and natural horse behaviour. In the beauty of this nature he developed his principals of the first encounter of human and horse.
Genetic changing in breeding, horse characters and horse types are also important topics in KFHs repertoire, which Hempfling employs with all horses (What Horses Reveal). You will often find him with horses of baroque breeds like Lusitano horses (Alter Real), PRE, Lipizzan horses, Knabstrup and Friesian horses but he is also very attached to the natural horse types like Arabian, Criollo, Welsh, Welsh Cob, Haflinger, Icelandic and Connemara.
His approach is valid for all horses and every horse enthusiast and lover may feel at home in these authentic basics of equitation and equus. In his courses therefore also riders and breeders from totally different styles may learn how to gain the friendship of their horses, often associated with breeds like Quarter, Thoroughbred, Pinto, Appaloosa, Mustang, Irish Cob, Paso Fino, Saddlebred and other horse types.
One may say that he is meanwhile one of the leading names in the issue animal and especially horse welfare and horse passion and love, as well as horses in wildlife, roots in nature and animal communication. The German TV programme called him one of the most important horse whisperer of the world.
Hempflings professional background is in the fields communication, art, theatre, music, study of native people and cultures. He lives on a small island in the Danish Archipelago where he conducts exclusive courses for people from all corners of the world.

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• Equestrian

[gryphonkeen]

annnnd my horse isnt any of those. He's only partly like the gypsy vicor and pegasus... but only bits...

[nature2promotion]

@gryphonkeen - I understand what you mean - Its also sometimes difficult to recognize, especially some of the mixtures. But in the book it is of course described much more detailed and it also gives a lot of advice concerning the work with the horses, and I think it often becomes easier step by step to see what is in the horse. The book will soon be reprinted and then a practical part will be added to make it easier using the system on your own.

[DJBelbe]

i wonder if this is my mare... at least it's the profile she fits the most. Her eyes are different though... she glances sideways in a somewhat snobish or skeptical way when she feels at home. otherwise she just looks plain worried about npthing in particular... i'm confused

[nature2promotion]

It is not always so easy to recognize, and there are mixtures which are more difficult to realize. Klaus advices to approach this calmly and with patience - think about it and let it settle in you, then step by step you will feel more and more sure when you look at horses. It is a question of getting familiar with the whole theme.

[jmdnarri]

All horses have different personalities, and different combinations of different traits. to fit every horse in the world into one of 26 categorys, I think, requires some level of vagueness of each of these categorys. Finding a beautiful and whimsical way of telling people that not all horses have the same potential and need to be worked with within their personality type, is great though.

[SempiternalAmor]

My horse (Appendix) that I sold earlier this year was definitely the dove. Though my favorite horse (Quarter Horse, who my family had when I was younger, was a mixture of the sergeant, the friend and the pilgrim. I could go anywhere with that mare.

[naomitmk]

My daughters galloway. the friend all over. my other 3 not sure on yet.

[Talkinhorn]

Seems that I have a Minister!! unless he has me...

[magdalenamambo]

Hello, Klaus - I live in Africa working with Apes and Horses and I have seen lots of problems of horses and their people. Mostly, I believe, it comes from total misunderstanding and not even seeking answers other than "how can I make him/her do it!". I find your theories wise and useful, and I am trying to understand the type of each horse I work with. It is getting easier over time! But few of the types I simply cannot get - and Victor I cannot grasp... could you explain a bit more...?

[JessikaSaysMeow]

@gryphonkeen same, my mare dosent seem to fit any either, well she seems to fit alot of them lol .. one day shes an angel and you feel like you could jump on her back and ride for miles and the next shes aggressive, paws alot and explosive but only realy when shes in the round pen or lunging, shes always so respectfull of space though .. she confuses me ... hmm anyway i'll get the book =)

[lakota123max]

@gryphonkeen once u find ur horse's type..u will know it..when i saw the pegasus type..i knew instantly that it was the wild horse i tamed once...and i cried because i no longer own her..she was one of those horses u bond with and feel ur heart torn out when u lose them.

[themysteriouskiller]

I have a pegasus, I think...but, my horse is also a huge fighter, he won't give in to force in any way, and he will kill other males if given the opportunity, if he percieves them as threatening, even if they submit or run from him, he will chase them down and attempt to kill them. He is super charming to mares, and he never forces himself on them but he knows how to get what he wants from them, and it has never failed yet. He's a strange, multi-faceted horse.

[binkolinus]

@rotansilversplash it's hard to say, i was thinking maybe the prince? maybe a blend between the prince and the dancer? I'm just guessing.. it's really hard to tell when you haven't seen the horse ;)

[rotansilversplash]

ok my andalusian Holstiener is the tough one allll over, hahah :)

i just didnt find my little arabian riding pony on any of them, maybe you can help?

he does not have a big trust in humans, he runs away, but if i walk of he will follow, when i pat him he flinches, he is very talented suited high school training, willing to learn, fine boned, flowing movement as if he is walking on clouds, and he needs someone to bond with before you can make progress