“Horse Training and SUPERWEEDS?”
Did you know that herbicide has
created a very BIG problem?
It has created….
“Superweeds!”
They’re “Superweeds” because they are
resistant to chemicals.
Nothing can manage them except getting
rid of them by hand.
Even that is a daunting task.
It’s the ol’ cause and effect thing in action.
Horses can be like Superweeds.
They can get the wrong treatment and they
can’t be managed either…except by someone
who really knows their stuff.
This is the reason you want to do something
right the first time with your horse.
To undo something that’s done, takes f-a-r
longer than to do something right the first time.
Honestly, that’s one of the things
that keeps trainers in business and that is
undoing something in a horse and changing
the habit to a desirable one.
One of the most common mistakes made is
getting the horse mad.
It’s easy to do.
And it’s easy to forget your horse is
getting mad.
In fact there’s a good way to tell if you
pushed it too far, too hard, too much.
In his DVD, J.J. Rydberg said this:
“If you’re mad, your
horse is already mad!”
So what’s the big deal?
Heck, he’s a horse. If he’s mad then by
golly he’s just gotta get over it cuz he’s
gonna do what I say, right?
Hold on Buckwheat.
Here’s another valuable tip J.J. reveals.
J.J. said, “You could get a horse so mad that
you could whip him and he wouldn’t care.”
Now THAT’s mad!
Of course J.J. wouldn’t actually whip a
horse. He’s merely demonstrating how important
it is to keep them in a good frame of mind.
If you think about it, that’s not much
different than you and I.
We can’t do much when we’re mad. We’re
mad and we don’t care about much but bein’ mad.
Pretty hard to do anything else.
So teaching a horse something when you’ve
made him mad is not gonna work.
How do you know if you made him mad?
As I said a minute ago, if you’re mad
then your horse is already mad.
The problem with that is you already
went too far.
You should’ve backed off before this happened
because now you have a battle on your hands.
And it’s a battle you don’t wanna take on.
Not only that, horses are friendly creatures.
They’re easy to teach various things
but you can inadvertently set out to teach
them to be mean.
You don’t want a horse that argues. You want
one that willingly does or tries what you ask.
So how do you tell your horse is on
his way to getting mad?
There are various signs.
Tail swishing is a sign.
A horse swishing his tail is kinda like a kid
getting mad, making a face, and sort of growling.
But be careful to take tail swishing in
the right context.
After all, it could be fly he’s trying to shoo.
But if you’re riding him and trying to
get him doing something and it’s not working out
and he’s not getting what you want,…
“you might hear
his tail swish”
If you do, there’s a sign.
Does that mean you stop doing what
you’re doing right there?
Not necessarily.
One tail swish doth not a mad horse make.
That tail swish is your warning signal.
It merely says that he got a little put
out at that moment.
You can keep pushing him to do what
you’re after but now your awareness kicks
in a little and you tell yourself to be
careful about pushing and pushing and pushing.
The secret is this.
If after a few more tries you don’t
get what you want, then back off totally.
Ride him around and guide him and let him
have his face.
This is called “talkin’ him out of bein’
mad.”
It’s one of the many gems J.J. teaches
his students.
J.J. has lots of good info if you’re
gonna show your horse anything. To see
more about J.J., click the following:
http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-jjrydberg.html
Here’s an extra tip.
While talking your horse out of bein’
mad, replay in your mind what happened with you
and the horse.
Why wasn’t he doing what you wanted?
You’ll be surprised to find it’s likely
because he didn’t understand what you wanted.
Rarely is it because he won’t do it.
As I said a minute ago, horses are friendly,
tractable animals.
They’re typically willing to do what you
want…as long as they understand what to do.
So the trick is this.
Ask them in a way they’ll understand what
you want because, perhaps, you weren’t explaining
in a way they could understand.
http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-jjrydberg.html
And there you have it…stay safe around your horses!
Charlie
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