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Sample Our Newsletter
"Good Now Bad Later," from my FREE monthly newsletter
From the How to Train a Horse Series:
"Every time you teach an exercise, your horse will go through the same learning cycle. He'll go from "Bad" to "Good" to "Worse" to "Not So Bad" to "Learned." That's the typical cycle: Bad. Good. Worse. Not so bad. Learned.
You know "Good." "Good" is where we get excited. It's the part where we want to show off to our friends. We want to show somebody how soft our horse has become, so we walk over to brag to somebody, pick up our reins and the horse sticks his nose straight out, stiff as a board. We're embarrassed and our friends snicker. We've just entered the "worse" stage. It's the part where "he was getting but now he's not."
It's during the "worse" part where we typically second-guess our training. "The horse was good but now he's worse. I must be doing something wrong." You begin to think you need to change what you're doing. "Maybe my hand's in the wrong position" or "I'm using too little pressure." You begin to think you're doing something that's not correct. That's when we're most likely to change what we're doing. But that's the most important time for us to not change, to keep on doing what we're doing. You've got to get through this stage by being consistent. Keep doing the same thing over and over so that the horse realizes all the movements that are "mistakes" and which single movement is correct. It's consistency and time that teach your horse."
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From John Lyons Trainer Keith Hosman |
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Stop Bucking Study Course
A Downloadable Book
A sample from Day 4:
"So here’s today’s big ol’ major theme: Be proactive. You know what it looks like when you lose your horse’s focus - don’t let it happen. When you get on your horse the next time you’ll do this: Ride intensely for exactly twenty minutes. “Riding intensely” does not mean riding with reckless abandon. It means you pick an exercise and tune everything else in the world out and practice. Find a rhythm. Ignore everything except the required movements from your horse. (The concept of “riding intensely for 20 minutes” is described in the article “Keys to Improvement How Long You Should Ride.”) You can practice the Head Down Cue or the serpentine decribed above.
Another great exercise for the bucking horse to learn is something called the “Three Step Stop Exercise.” Just as the serpentine and head down cue taught your horse to “give to the bit,” this exercise will build on that, asking your horse to soften and carry it’s head nicely. Best part is, it takes a nice big step toward collection and self-carriage. Now, the exercise itself isn’t exactly a barrel of laughs - but sometimes you gotta eat your vegetables; you can’t skip to desert if you really want to get your horse in proper shape."
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How to Lunge a Horse
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How to Lunge a Horse
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