Walk N Style Academy
Walk N Style and its creators Denise Bader and Nicole Carswell Tolle are dedicated to creating an education based environment and success driven series of programs through the Academy from which all participants can benefit on both a personal and professional level.
Mission Statement
he mission of Walk N Style Academy is to provide an educational environment where instructors, trainers, and any individual desiring to be knowledgeable in the Tennessee Walking Horse can communicate and share knowledge, techniques and experiences. We welcome participants from all backgrounds including other gaited breeds!
The Academy is in place to build knowledge and provide support for those endorsing WNS and in agreement with its processes and techniques.
TRAINING CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
The Trainerin Certification Program is designed to recognize individuals who are capable of training the Tennessee Walking Horse utilizing methods and techniques established within our program. While individual style will be encouraged, program goals are to:
Train the eye of the certifier to recognize desired movement within the individual horse
Identify points for improvement
Apply techniques which grow and develop the horse into an improved individual.
While staying true to the fact that the Tennessee Walking Horse was created and bred to cover the most amount of ground in a single stride while giving a smooth ride, and demonstrating headshake and brilliance of carriage. WALK N STYLE will adhere to those basic principles of performance when training individuals toward certification.
To join the WNS Program is to join a TEAM dedicated to the positive progression of the Tennessee Walking Horse as a breed and legitimate athlete. Our goal is to produce a consistent group of training minded riders known for skill and understanding in the development of the Tennessee Walking Horse.
LEVEL FORMAT
WALK N STYLE LLC provides a training format involving round pen work, starting colts, developing young horses under saddle, and maintaining the aged horse 5 and over.
Level 1 Training
- Correct movement- Work on older horses
- Flexing
- Gaits
- Bitting 1 (snaffle, shank, gag, etc)
- Longing
- Basic Horsemanship
- Energy control
- General evaluation of the square and pacey horses
- Shoeing
- Movement evaluation
- Ground handling skills
- Canter a finished horse
Written and Live Testing
Level 2
- Horses having already experience under saddle
- Ground driving
- Horsemanship
- Energy management
- Work and learn tools to actual correct trotty and pacey horses
- Shoeing (types of horses)
- Ground handling horsemanship
- Bitting 2 (understand which bit does what)
- Help a horse to perfect the Canter (collection, rhythm)
Written and Live Testing
Level 3
- Colt Work
- Shoeing
- Build a young horse up to and age horse
- Bitting (pick bits for the different stages of horses)
- Pick me up technique
- Live evaluation test / horse choice fitting training equipment
- Problem solving (tongue over the bit, horse not Level behind...)
- Customer management/stable management
- Teach a horse to Canter
- Saddle Fit
Written and Live Testing
LEVEL 1: $2200
LEVEL 2: $2200
LEVEL 3: $2200
CERTIFICATION COSTS TRAINING:
All Three Levels: $5000
Instruction CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
The Instruction Certification Program is designed to recognize individuals who are capable teaching the Tennessee Walking Horse utilizing methods and techniques established within our program. While individual style will be encouraged, program goals are to:
Instruction Certification will encompass 3 levels:
Instruction Certification Level 1 mechanical stage
Level 1 Certification includes:
Helmet Fit and Equipment Knowledge
Safety horse and rider team
Evaluate the pair for safety and work ability
How the horse moves
Rider Position
Aids
Rein handling
Concept of collection
Lesson types (group, private) manage
Paperwork and forms
Beginners, intermediate and average students
Insurance
ILevels of Progressions (instinctive riding, automatic and mechanical)
Teach to lead and stop basic leading
Bandaging (the different divisions)
CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS:
- WILL BE EDUCATED ON BASIC SADDLE FIT
- ALL WNS EQUIPMENT WILL BE UTILIZED AND AVAILABLE TO CERTIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- CERTIFIED INDIVIDUALS WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO GAIN CREDITS TOWARD SADDLES AND OTHER EQUIPMENT THEY WANT THROUGH TRACKING SALES TO THEIR CLIENTS
- IN PREPARATION FOR ALL NATIONAL EVENTS, WNS WILL LOCATE CERTIFIED INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THAT STATE AND PROMOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AT THE EVENT. THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE ALSO ASKED TO HELP IN THE BOOTH AND MEET AND GREET THE CROWD.
LEVEL 1: $2200
2021CERTIFYING EVENTS
| MAY | Walk of Champions - 13th - 16th at Clear Springs Ranch in Fountain, Colorado, USA |
|---|---|
| JULY | Walk of Champions - 15th - 18th in Kentucky, USA |
| OCTOBER | TBA |
LEVEL 2 Instruction
automatic stage
We will specify the area of the Instructors strength:
- 1
- Build up system lessons structure
- 2
- Equitation (Patterns)
- 3
- Beginners, intermediate, average students (work with one of each)
- 4
- Levels of Progressions
- 5
- Saddleseat
- 6
- English and Western discipline
- 7
- Understand the variety of training equipment
- 8
- Showmanship
- 9
- Exercises (Rider)
- 10
- Show Ring/Discipline rules basics
LEVEL 2: $2200
INSTRUCTION CERTIFICATION LEVEL 3
Level 3 Certification includes:
Beginners intermediate average students (Live Lessons choice exercises)
Pick the right training equipment for your student
Be able to bring the student from the training mode to the finished mode
Pattern work upper level
Problem solving
Pick the exercise to improve the student
Fine Tune
Saddle Fit
Make the great ride