For owners, riders and trainers! Help your horse jump better, move faster, and run longer, by using your horse's responses to guide your work! In this 75 minute hands-on guide, Jim Masterson shows 24 specific techniques to loosen muscles and increase performance, as well as over 30 tips for a successful treatment. Most importantly, Jim shows how to use the horse's response to guide your treatment. Once you know the 8 responses to look for, you will know exactly where to work, and for how long. This is a step by step guide, and each technique is clearly filmed and explained in detail. Jim shows a complete treatment that covers the neck, shoulder and back. He has used this treatment to improve performance on over a thousand horses- and now you can too!
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Equine Massage for Performance Horses:
This DVD is fantastic for both the average horse owner or an experienced equine massage professional. I was able to help my mare recover from an accident by watching her responses to my efforts. She had hurt for a long time before I learned Jim's techniques and no one really knew quite where she hurt. Jim teaches that the horse, by his responses, will let you know where he hurts and when you are helping. The DVD is VERY well done, easy to follow and understand and it can only help horses. Buy it! Your... more info
Great Video:
This is a great, easy to follow dvd. I highly recommend this for anyone who has a horse. Or if you can, get to one of his seminars.
Love your horse? Get this video!:
The laid-back tone and easy manner of this video, especially the wonderful demonstration horses, takes equine massage right to your own barn to apply to your own horse. Some of the techniques are a little advanced for a non-professional to apply, but I found that by incorporation the concept of "touch-response" in a good top-to-tail grooming session not only relaxed and soothed my middle-aged mare, and worked out her "kinks", but resulted in a much more vigorous and willing animal with great flexibility... more info
Simply Amazing:
Anybody with an interest in bodywork for horses should own this DVD. Jim explains things very clearly and the DVD is very well put together. I was able to use the techniques after my first viewing fairly well just by following a few notes that I took. Subsequent viewings of the DVD and sessions with my horse have allowed me to get a better feel and more confidence resulting in more effect from the work. Using the Masterson Method has allowed me to find and release areas of tension on my horse that I... more info