Salutations to the horse, that exceptional creature and awesome feat of nature that has served us for thousands of years; making many facets of our lives easier.

I present this to horses all over the world who submit their power and exclusive nature to humans to be our magnificent sport partner.

The fiction of no-rein riding has effectively come true. The lengthy era of a horse submitting to having humans on his back while surrendering to unnatural and often harsh devices in their mouths that put pressure and hit on sensitive areas is over.  The horse no longer has to suffer to move where the rider wants.  The agony of stiffness in the head, neck and other parts of his or her body caused by the bit is over.  The horse regains freedom and unleashes his or her power under the control of the rider to proudly perform the gorgeous movements that are a feat of nature while enjoying life as our unique sport partner

This method of training and riding is dedicated:

To my mother(1920-1999) who taught me to be the best person I could be, to be always optimistic and to act intelligently.

To my father (1908-2006) who taught me to be honest, a hard worker and to be innovative and athletic.

To Iran, the country of my birth, for providing me with my education, for giving me confidence and teaching me how to create and accept challengesto always improve.

To Canada, the country I now call home, that allowed me to change the direction of my influence, that improved the quality of my life and gave me peace of mind.

I present this method of training and riding to all horse lovers, the riders, coaches and trainers all over the world who are wanting to learn and willing to try new principles.

Best regards
Koorosh

What new has been done to advance communication with the horse?
I began researching about communicating with the horse in 1980. I reached to a theory based on discovery of an unknown part of a horse's nature that you could ride a horse without reins. As a result of that theory I trained, Sam, who would compete without reins at 4' (120 cm) jumping course shows and also dressage tests up to Prix St. George with good ranking and placement in both events. With the support of this knowledge I trained a second horse, an off-track thoroughbred for horse shows which competed in a Puissance show clearing 6'3" (190 cm) but with reins. (The pictures are on the web site.) In Canada I trained a 16 hh thoroughbred off-track horse named Gladiator who jumped a 4' (120 cm) jumping course on May 1st of 2005. He performs up to Prix St. George test dressage movements. This is all done without reins (as seen on the video on the web site). Gladiator still continues to improve his performances. According to my theory all was expected, but technically I had some problems bending and flexing Sam's head and neck. I solved this problem with Gladiator. These were all good performances according to international standards as to collection, impulsion, straightness, flexion, engagement, rhythmic and influenced movement, etc. This theory and technique is based on scientific principles; anyone who is schooled in this method can train and ride a horse without reins while meeting advanced world class standards.

What are the results of this achievement?
1. provides new knowledge and techniques for the sport
2. advances communication with the horse
3. provides a more fair atmosphere for the horse
4. unleashes the power of the horse
5. creates a more flexible, active and comfortable horse to become a better partner in the human's sport
6. reduces training time for the horse
7. eliminates the long, hard time for the horse and trainer to adapt the horse to a bit
8. reduces training time, without reducing safety for the rider
9. advances the methods of training the horse and rider for riding with reins

What are the projects for the future?
1. putting together an equestrian show jumping team for the Olympic games.
2. writing and publishing a book to train riders with reins to advance their skills and reduce training time.
3. writing and publishing a book to explain and release the theory and techniques to train a horse to be ridden without reins and to train the rider to ride a trained horse without reins.
4. establishing a riding school to teach riding without reins
5. holding clinics all over the world as requested to improve the sport
6. conducting demonstrations to introduce this technique to all interested individuals.
7. training different breeds of horses to test their abilities to be ridden without reins.
8. informing equestrian organizations world wide of this new techniques and knowledge.

-Some discussions with Koorosh about "Riding without reins"
Q. What made you decide to ride without reins?
A. This was not a planned decision at the time, but came about as the result of researching and analyzing the ways used to take control of the horse's movement, path and posture.

Q. What makes it possible to ride a horse without reins?
A. I discovered a previously unknown characteristic of the horses' nature and theorized that a rider could control the movement, path and posture of a horse without using any hand signals or reins.

Q. How daring must one be to try this method of riding?
A. This is not about bravery.

Q. Are circus tricks used?
A. No, not by me.

Q. Is it Horse Whispering?
A. No, this is not about "horse whispering"

Q. What is it then?
A. This is a new scientific method of communication with a horse.

Q. Why do you consider your method to be scientific?
A. It is scientific because anyone trained in this method is able to train and ride a horse accordingly.

Q. Why are you bringing this to peoples attention?
A. This is based on unknown knowledge about the horse and I think we all need to increase our knowledge of the horse and related matters.

Q. Why do you say this is new?
A. This is the first time that a rider can take control of a horse's movement, path and posture without reins according to the international standards of this sport.

Q. How is this method different?
A. The instruction standards of the FEI, the CEF and all other countries use hand signals and/or aids as staples with which to take control of the horse's movement, path and posture. This is a very revolutionary discovery regarding the training and riding of the horse; in this method hand signals are not used as they play no role in influencing the horse.

Q. How long ago did you begin working with this method?
A. 25 years ago I theorized this method.

Q. What was the first experiment to make this method practical?
A. I immediately began to train at 14.3 hh horse named Sam and after a year of hard work this horse was able to jump 4'3" (130 cm) jumping course and performed a Prix St. George dressage test with exceptional results, especially considering no reins or hand signals were used.

Q. Did you follow up on this experiment and training?
A. Yes. In 2003 I began to train a 16 hh thoroughbred named Gladiator who, so far, is able to take a show jumping course and perform dressage movements without reins or any hand signals, dressage movements such as: shouldering, traverse, renvershalf pass, flying change of the legs at canter, etc. without using reins or hand signals. Gladiator is still improving his performance.

Q, Does this horse remain in form according to known standards?
A. Most definitely.He performs these types of movements while his head and neck are correctly flexed (head on the vertical, neck arched beautifully, poll higher than withers and with correct and beautiful top line. Hind legs are placed properly underneath his body, haunches and hocks are active enough, which allows him to move rhythmically with very good impulsion. He is able to keep his spine straight or bent according to the requested movement.

Q. What is he doing now?
A. May 1st, 2005 Gladiator successfully completed a clear round on a jumping course of 13 jumps including combinations and distance jumps. This course was designed with upright and oxer jumps height of 3'3" ( 100 cm) to 4' (120 cm) . And his training continues. It is important to mention that the poles used for the course were only 10' (3m) in length and if you look closely in the above picture you will notice that there are no wings to the standards of the jumps.

Q. What has been the reaction of people when they have seen your riding without reins?
A. When I was taking any jumping course the spectators were silent and focused on me and the horse as you can see in these pictures and all were amazed and could not believe what they were seeing.

Q. The reactions of those with more experience?
A. Many experienced horse people are impressed and interested in this method. Some however justify this method by believing the horse alone to be exceptional and it would never happen again with another horse. For still others, this method is breaking the taboos of horse back riding which traditionally teaches that one must always used reins and hand signals to communicate with the horse.

Please get ready for this amazing video clip of Koorosh & Gladiator jumping the 4' ( 120 cm) course.(please note that it will take at least 45 to 60 seconds to load)