Point to Point Healing Alex Lewis

HORSES, HEAT, SWEATING, COLD-WATER, COOLING, SCRAPING At the risk of preaching to the converted, as a few people are still sending me articles, often written by lay people, sometimes from vets, and telling me how wrong I am, I thought I'd try a pictorial approach 🙂 Per litre, Ice-Cold water (0-5°C) removes heat faster than evaporation of 1 litre of water or sweat. Per litre, the complete evaporation of 1 litre of sweat or water removes 13x more heat than 1 litre of ice-water. MYTHS Myth 1 - “You should never put cold water on a hot horse" Explanation - Ice-cold water(0-5°C) on hot horses does not cause shock, laminitis, kidney damage, muscle damage, tying-up or heart attacks! Myth 2 - “Water left on a horse will heat up and insulate and make the horse hotter." Explanation - Flawed physics! Water is a better conductor of heat than air. A wet horse will actually cool faster than a dry one, even if humidity is 100%. Myth 3 - “Scraping is essential." Explanation - Scraping just wastes time that could be better used putting more water on to cool by conduction. Scraping also wastes water when water is in short supply. Water which could evaporate on the horse. Water evaporating on the ground doesn't cool horses down. Myth 4 “Concentrate on large veins, arteries inside the back legs, large muscle groups" Explanation - NO. Cooling by evaporation or conduction works by cooling the blood flowing through the small blood vessels in the skin. The more skin you cool, the quicker you cool the horse. Apply water all over. How do I know all this? 25 years working on equine thermoregulation. 20 plus scientific papers on equine thermoregulation. Working with endurance horses in the Gulf. Advising the racing industry on prevention and management of heat-stroke. Working with Governments on heat legislation. Working with charities on thermal stress. Working on the 1996 Atlanta, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Currently working on the 2018 Tryon World Equestrian Games and Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Author of the FEI Guidelines for National Federations on the management of horses in thermally challenging conditions. https://inside.fei.org/sites/default/files/Session_6_Optimising_performance_in_a_challenging_climate_SUPPORTING_DOC.pdf

Have you seen episode #2 in which I work with the sensitive "vertical" mare Jada? The long uncut version is in the online program. By the way, we have a special offer until this Saturday. When you join the TRT method before Sunday and sign up for the first module, you will now get the replay of TRT Live for Free! TRT Live was held in the Netherlands, but we even had visitors from countries like Norway, France, the UK etc. You can get over 4 hours of footage for free when you sign up for module 1! What is module 1 about? It's all about the groundwork pattern, which I'm also using with Jada in this video. It's the groundwork pattern I use with every (!) horse that comes in for training. In the online training I show you step by step how you can do it as well. Your horse will get more body awareness, will be more flexible and relaxed. To learn more, click the link below ↓

Man o' War's grandson King Charles starred as "The Pie" in the 1944 film National Velvet starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney. He was a 7-yr-old thoroughbred that was trained as a show hunter and jumper. King Charles was purchased for $800 for the movie. Eleven year old Taylor underwent an extensive training program riding King Charles daily. A special bond grew between the two of them. After filing National Velvet, King Charles was given to Taylor as a present for her 13th birthday. King Charles would then retire and spend the rest of his life with his new owner Elizabeth Taylor.