From John Lyons Trainer Keith Hosman

Stop Bucking Study Course
A Downloadable Book

A sample from Day 2:

"Take your horse to an area where you won’t have to worry about interferences (barking dogs, rushing horses, slamming doors, plastic bags, etc.). The idea is: “Ride where you can, not where you can’t.” RED ALERT: That’s today’s concept: “Ride where you can, not where you can’t. Stop reading this and repeat that out loud. “I (your name here) promise to ride where I can, not where I can’t.” Say it to the dog, say it to the wall. Really mean it ‘cause it’ll keep you in one piece and keep you from rushing out with your buddies to take a trail ride you’re not ready for and rationalizing later. It means if you’re horse bucks at the blue house, you won’t ride by the blue house until you’ve done the necessary training. If you’re addicted to gambling, stay away from Vegas; if your horse is a bucker, stay away from tricky situations."

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Available Downloads:
"Stop Bucking"
"Rein/Speed" (for Nervous Horse Owners)
"Round Pen First Steps"
"Trailer Training"

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"Reins: 5 Tips to Improve Your Use," from my FREE monthly newsletter

From the Natural Horse Training Series:

"We clinicians teach "handling of the reins" in a particular order and emphasize certain aspects because we repeatedly see a pattern of "universal truths" from one rider to the next. We see this and we see opportunities to make marked improvements fast. Students don't realize how much pressure they're applying, that they never release, that they're actually rewarding poor behavior, etc. They're mad, the horse is mad – and they pay me to put on a black and white striped shirt and blow a whistle. "Stop fighting; go to your respective corners." This stuff is simple – but there's a pattern to it, a flow and rhythm. If you're having issues with your horse – or just want to improve as a rider, give this material a whirl.

You'll find five tips – each with "your handling of the reins" as their focal point – each guaranteed to make your friends at the barn wonder if you haven't inked a deal with the devil. This is the material I cover most often, the stuff I hit the hardest, the concepts I believe to be the most important, the undercurrent running through the rest of our training. While I won't specifically deal with the mechanics of handling your reins, ("Hold them like so") the material covered will change the way you think and so will ultimately effect the way you do hold, release, etc. Bottom line: You'll improve much faster if you first understand the "why" behind the "what, when and how.""

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