The thing that I am trying to bring out here is this feel and timing.  I used to say all there is to it is feel, timing and balance.  I still can't improve on those three words, but there is so much that goes on within that. - TD

Although he looked like the "cowboy next door", Tom's been profiled in People magazine and has been called the "patron saint of horses" by the New York Times.  Horse owners from around the world have looked to Tom for his kinder, gentler, much-proven technique of training horses.  
 

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A Day with Tom Dorrance This is a special and unique interview of Tom Dorrance With Larry Mahan. An insight view in Tom's thinking and feeling of the horse, and his way of adjusting to what fits the occasion, "Feel the Whole Horse". This is a demonstration of Tom helping Larry Mahan correct horses with Tom's approach to making a change in the horse and the importance of "Feel, Timing & Balance". Also a careful approach in helping a horse that was troublesome loading into a trailer. Visits with Tom This is a wonderful learning tool. Watch Tom direct riders and help them better understand his way of working with a horse. Disc 1 includes sections on Directing the Energy, Bringing the Life up in the Feet, Keeping Your Focus, Stopping and Starting and much more. Disc 2 Includes never before seen footage of Tom talking about his earlier life and extremely insightful and thought provoking explanations of his work. Both discs have Chapter markers for quick and easy reference.  A must have for the serious student. Feel, Timing & Balance The 2nd DVD release. 2 Disc set This DVD is worth it just to be actually able to listen to Tom as he explains the terms ‘True Unity’ and ‘Feel, Timing & Balance’. Nobody does it better! Also there is great footage from his clinic in Texas as he helps riders with a variety of issues including : The Turnaround, Helping the horse to round out and an amazing example of bringing all the philosophy and elements together as Tom helps one horse in particular work through his fears. Greetings! The first DVD ever released showing Toms work with horses. Toms’ personal philosophy with horses is shown in examples taken from Clinic situations throughout the USA and brief interviews at his home in Salinas. You get a real sense of his compassion for the horse and what an incredible insight Tom had at seeing things from the horses point of view.

 

It seems to go in pieces.  That's how it seems to go even for a horse.  There's "time" in there; it's just as well not to crowd the horse if he isn't ready for it.  You keep offering, trying to help as much as you can, without troubling him too much about it.  Then, there will be a day when it will just clear right up.  - TD  

(photo taken 8-27-79 Elko, Nevada Ray Hunt & Tom Dorrance clinic)
 

Listen to the horse.  Try to find out what the horse is trying to tell you. All we are trying to do is fix things up to where he can find them; then it's the horse's idea. - TD  

(Tom is saddling a stallion "Pic Remedy" with an English saddle. Year 1990.)
 

Tom in his 80's on a 3-year-old filly with dog Flipper.

Tom in Battle Mountain, Nevada at Wilson Ranch.  circa 1984-1985
(photo taken by Mary Branscomb, Lamoille, Nev.)

The best thing I try to do for myself is to try to listen to the horse.  I don't mean let him take over.  I listen to how he's operating: what he's understanding or what he doesn't understand: what's bothering him and what isn't bothering him.  I try to feel what the horse is feeling and operate from where the horse is. - TD

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