1. Is Your Horse In Condition For Training?
2. Excessive Motivation In The Round Pen
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1. Is Your Horse In Condition For Training?
Normally common sense goes a long way. Think about yourself…
Do you enjoy learning, concentrating or doing lots of physical effort
when you’re tired, run down or just came in from an emotionally draining situation?
Well, that’s the same case with your horse.
If your horse is tired from other training, has just been ridden a while,
or is in bad shape then he isn’t going to respond as well as you would like.
A healthy and vigorous body leads to healthy nerves and his brain will
retain much more of what you want to teach him.
If your horse is dull or listless then be sure to warm him up and take
the training slowly.
Don’t do long periods of training under these situations. Your efforts will
not be rewarded if he’s tired and worn out.
And, think about yourself if someone is trying teach or show you something –
if they speak kindly and soft to you vs. harshly and threatening you with a
whip, wouldn’t you react differently?
Seriously, your horse will respond much better to pleasant, encouraging
words with caressing or rub downs rather than harsh, loud words.
Talking harsh, screaming, whipping, etc. just saps the energy from a horse –
just like it would you and me.
So… if your horse isn’t responding to your training or he seems down
and dull then you might try talking gently to him, leading him around a
little, and let him “warm up” to you some before you do any heavy training.
He’ll be much more likely to give you his attention if he’s not tired and alert.
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2. Excessive Motivation In The Round Pen
Here’s trainer Andy Curry discussing different methods trainers use:
Different trainers, as you likely
know, have different ways of doing things with horses.
For example, a trainer may use a rope
to toss toward the horse to get him to step forward and get motion out of him.
Other trainers use a whip.
Of course, we don’t strike the horse with the whip.
It’s used in several different ways
as an effective tool.
One way is to have it hit the ground
behind the horse to drive him forward.
Not so close to him that he fears it,
and not so far away from him that it doesn’t motivate him to move.
And you dang sure don’t wanna accidentally hit him with it.
If you’re kinda new to it, you should
practice directing it first before you use it.
It takes a little finesse…but it can
be learned pretty quickly.
Now here’s a very important point.
Once the horse moves, take away the whip.
“Hide” it under your arm so it’s not
constantly in their face and threatening them.
I find many a horse owner doesn’t know their horse feels the threat
even though the horse owner isn’t meaning to threaten.
We must remember the horse is a 1,000+
pounds of “raw” emotion and is easily frightened and we
have to treat them accordingly.
Diana Quintana shows the correct use of the whip if you’re interested.
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In her DVD, she reminds us about trying to teach a horse something
while they’re still full of energy.
Let your horse lope some of it off.
One of the worse things you can do is
teach a horse something new when he is still full of energy.
It’s kinda like recess in elementary
school.
Those kiddos need to release some energy or they’ll
struggle to learn something.
They get to burn off energy and settle
back down for more learning.
So consider your horse out to recess for a little bit before
trying to teach him something new.
Besides, when you get him moving it keeps adding to the “Cup of Respect”
for you so he learns to pay attention to you and be watchful of what you want.
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That’s it for today…. Stay safe around your horses!
Charlie
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