In This Magazine Issue:
1. How To Get Your Horse To Finish His Stop
2. Special: Beery Course + Pulley Bridle Bundle
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1. How To Get Your Horse To Finish His Stop
Trainer Andy Curry talks about getting your horse to stop:
Oddly, there are two very important
horse training principles that seem opposite of each other.
One is getting the horse to move
forward.
The other is getting him to stop.
Both are immensely important depending
on the situation. Plus, both help principles aid
in teaching the other.
In other words, getting a horse to
go forward is critical in teaching him
to stop and vice versa.
But for now, let’s talk about stopping.
First, what does it ‘really’ mean to stop?
Stopping means:
‘Quit moving, drop dead,
right here, right now,
don’t go ’til I say, etc.’
As you can see, stopping is very black and white.
Stopping isn’t slowing down.
Stopping isn’t leaning to take a step
once you’ve stopped.
Stopping is not moving.
Stopping is stopping.
Thus, you gotta get it in your horse’s
head what stopping means.
The first thing to do is examine your
own behavior.
In other words, when you’re on your horse
and he’s moving a little too fast for you….
do you say, ‘Whoa’ when you want him to slow down?
WRONG!
Do NOT say ‘whoa’ unless you want him to stop.
Go ahead and laugh. There are plenty of
people who do it… even though they know not to.
Why do they do it?
Habit.
Many do it and don’t realize it.
Do you?
If not, good.
If so, change the habit because if you
don’t, the horse will think ‘whoa’
means to slow down.
The next thing to change is another
habit of yours if you don’t already practice it.
Be veddy veddy black and white about it.
In other words, when you say ‘whoa’ and you
want him to stop… then he needs to stop – period!
Now here’s a trick you can use to make it
clear as bath water that when you say
‘whoa!’ it means ‘stop!’
First, I’m paraphrasing a horse trainer
friend of mine named J.J. Rydberg.
What I’m paraphrasing comes directly from his video (DVD).
J.J. calls it finishing a stop.
To get your horse to finish a stop, get him to
back up immeditately ‘after’ the stop.
Why?
Because it helps them to know in their mind
that they won’t be going forward.
In other words, when you say ‘Whoa’ they know
they’re going to be asked to take a step or two back.
And the cool thing is this.
It also gets their backend under them…
which is important for a lot of things in the horse ridin’
world.
Having the back end under them gets their front end light.
When the front end is light they can move left
and right with ease.
It’s an athletic position. It’s kinda like a tennis player
in his or her stance with knees bent ready to take the serve.
Now if you wanna learn about J.J.’s video(DVD) then click the following:
But just remember that a horse that stops
good is because of ‘your’ habits and what you expect.
Be absolutely clear so he knows that stop means STOP.
And don’t forget to ‘finish the stop’ by getting
him to back up a step or two after the stop.
J.J. Rydberg Training DVD
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Ok.. have a good day! Be safe around your horses.
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