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SlimStick & Pocket String

Regular price £32.00
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The lightest natural horsemanship training stick/string on the market - less fatiguing and more accurate in your hand.

Newly redesigned in 2024! Sick of heavy groundwork tools? Sick of wet, soggy strings? Our stick and thin string combo weighs less, yet has the same reach as a normal stick (Carrot Sticks, Handy Sticks, farm store versions, etc) and is balanced and light in your hand. 

47" long stick. 6 foot string.

Our stick weighs just 6.5 ounces - you compare that to most sticks on the market that weigh between 10 ounces and a pound. That's far too much weight to wield accurately and as we all know, gear that picks up water or dirt becomes unwieldy and frankly just no fun to use. You'll benefit from a comfortable textured handle, synthetic leather tip that will last through all sorts of weather and use and a tidy smooth and super strong epoxy tip join that eliminates the issue of stick tips coming unraveled with time and age.

HEC is a specialist horsemanship tool and equipment maker, as with all of our products, the SlimStick & Pocket String shows an incredible attention to detail, in a simple and elegant tool.

*This product is not available for shipment outside of the UK.

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A Better Balanced Horsemanship Stick

Compared to any other natural horsemanship or ground work horse training stick on the market, the Horse Education Company SlimStick:

  • The SlimStick is dramatically lighter than a “normal” horsemanship stick & the same length
  • Easier on your wrist, better for precise control & less fatiguing
  • Thanks to tapered design, the stick’s fulcrum is closer to the handle - you have better control
  • Kids can stay farther away from horse than with a “normal” kids stick, they stay SAFER

The Pocket String:

  • Pocket String weighs less than half of what a “normal” string does & takes up half the room
  • Weight difference results in a faster, more responsive tool
  • Because it is a finer diameter, it will have more of a whistling noise than a normal string when used at high speed. You can use that as a cue, or as a further aid to desensitize your horse to similar noises (for instance a lariat).

The Slim Stick's design demolishes the old tool when it comes to it's handling. Because of the way it is shaped, the balance point or fulcrum is moved NEARLY TWICE as close to your hand/wrist as the old stick, which makes it so much easier to maneuver, reducing arm and wrist fatigue, and makes YOU more accurate for your horse. Yet, it still has the solid feel and bounce needed during preliminary education of your horse, or for a horse that needs reinforcement. But it doesn't stop there! We've engineered a new string that is less than half the diameter of the old one, and DOES NOT pick up water, dirt and is snag resistant. The combination of these two fantastic innovations has moves the dial forward in the quality of communication when you are working with your horse(s) on foot. 

It still operates with the same speed in your hand as a horsemanship stick - it is less fatiguing, lighter, more accurate and less likely to irritate existing issues you may have like arthritis or wrist overuse.

Trainer Opinion

Equine Educator Tik Maynard talks about the Slim Stick

Trainer Opinion

Equine Educator Tik Maynard talks about the Slim Stick