R. Tyler Basinger; CBT, CFP, CLS, CI/CE

R.  Tyler Basinger, was born and raised in the working cow ranch community in Southeast Arizona. Tyler has shod horses since he was nine years old. Although under the instruction of his father and grandfather, who were both horseshoers and blacksmiths, he decided to go to school in 1978 at Oklahoma Horseshoeing School in Oklahoma. He has been a full-time farrier ever since, and holds an American Farriers Association Certified Journeyman Farrier Certificate, which he obtained in 1982. His biggest goal has been searching for what true balance was on a horse's hoof.

Luckily, in 1990, he met Gene Ovnicek. Gene was excited about realizing a new process of how to actually obtain balance in a horse's foot by learning from external markers about what was going on in the inside of the foot. This method was repeatable over and over. It became Tyler's mainstay of hoof balance. He became a ELPO member in 2006 and began the certification process. He now holds every certification that the ELOP offers, and is now an avid instructor.

He became a board member in 2017 to offer his service to give back to the organization.  He continues to strive for more knowledge of the whole horse and views himself as a Student of the Horse.

Although having to have major back surgery in 2023, he is now back to shoeing full-time, and continues teaching.