England School Details 2012
First things first!
The School of Barehoof Strategy - United Kingdom is located just outside of Hull, in Leven, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Contact or schools host, Katie Sharp at katiemiddlefarm@aol.com for all details regarding accommodation and transport or Dan at dan@barehoof.com Should you apply online here, contact Dan as well as this will speed up the process.
2012 marks our 6th year!
The curriculum is very thorough, yet challenging. And when compared, the tuition is very competitive, in favor of the students’ budget. In detail, students can expect lessons in factual theory, in depth equine anatomy, physiology, internal and external bio mechanics, multiple cadaver dissections in our lab work and group experiments throughout the year. Guidance in hoofmanship - horsemanship for those of us who will work in this industry, all designed to work with the young, old, scared, abused, and kickers. We like to teach the horse to be ground tied from the very beginning as you can see on our homepage. Live horse trimming will happen with every session. Personal case studies will be reviewed as a group for all to share in the lessons each horse gives us. In our class room, the sharing of each others experiences is a value added experience. We will cover a guidance in the understanding of how important the role of diet and environment are. We will expose the myths of the ‘bad hooves‘ and and how to improve if not solve all external hoof conditions. What was once thought to be a life time of poor performance or bad quality feet will be clearly explained as to why they excuses were never true. Rehabilitation and hoof reconditioning, conformation assessment, laminitis, navicular, shelly foot, seedy toes and heels, white line disease, thrush and just a fraction of what we cover. Seeing these issues and identifying them from their earliest beginning and stop them before they get worse, is one of many attributes our students will help the owners and veterinarians with. Our Students will learn to make wise choices with sound judgment for the best interest of the horse, up to and including, knowing when a horse is not offered or is not suitable for a barehoof life style regardless of the reason(s), and how to have a sound working relationship with the horse owner, veterinarian and farrier which can only aid in the decision making process. Students can expect to get hands on class work from day one, wasting no time to in achieving the skills needed to be a Professional Hoof Trimmer and by the design of this course, ALL graduates will have an active clientele the day they graduate. This is a very exciting choice to make. This is a lifestyle change for the students as well. Working with horses, have give me the single most sense of freedom that a work place could ever provide.
This educational experience will ask of you to perform 100 trimming case studies (100 trims).
Take before and after photographs and document the trim itself. We document everything publicly. Always have, always will. Since our start we have published well over 100,000 fully completed and documented equine trims from the students of the Schools of Barehoof Strategy. www.glasshouse.smugmug.com is where you can see them. We take a full set of before and after photographs and collect other documentation to be published in Glasshouse, www.glasshouse.smugmug.com. Students will produce their own photo journal histories, videos, in an interactive internet portfolio. We collect, date and publish all field case study. Students take part on a full-on multimedia experience where everyone can monitor the progress from anywhere online.
I must be said for clarification that in this school, Dan Guerrera is the instructor. And that the studies within the principals of BareHoof Strategy are not those, nor are they related to the trimming of a desert like foot, nor a Strasser like foot. The Schools of Barehoof Strategy is respectful of all other schools of thought, but on the campus of our schools we focus on an approach that has give our students the reputation of safe and sound trimming by utilizing and respecting the structures the hoof provides the horse. ‘It’s not just knowing what to take off, but more importantly, its knowing what to leave on’. The differences will be most clearly demonstrated, exhibited and proven as to why this approach has been so successful from the start of the first trim, from the very start of these schools.
And lastly, included within your tuition is your text book, 3.8 kilos worth, a full tool set including your choice of 2 of my knives and my 3 disk dvd set of Barehoof Strategy trimming, to get you started before school starts. Group projects, individual projects, a term paper, is a fraction of what each student can expect. So yes, we are looking for the student who wants to do this, who wants to raise the bar and redefine their professionalism throughout the year, enough to publish their opinions, research, and field study for all to see. Yes, that’s a lot in one year. But when that year is complete the graduates of the School of Barehoof Strategy are ready to take on the work many have turned away. I will keep saying this. ‘The success of a proper barehoof trim is not just knowing what to take off but more importantly, it’s knowing what to leave on’.
If there are questions that need answering, feel free to email me at dan@barehoof.com
All this is in regards to level 1. Stay tuned for level 2!
All the best everybody, hope to see some of you in the classroom! Good luck to the students of 2012!
