Horse Training Secret #3: Can You Feel The Pressure?

Posted on June 15, 2011 by admin

1. “Training Secret #3: Can You Feel The Pressure?”

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1. “Training Secret #3 – Can You Feel The Pressure?”

Today, I reveal Secret #3 of the series to being
a successful horse trainer.

It doesn’t matter if you want to do it
professionally or just wanna know what to do.

Secret #3 is this:

“Horses are ‘into pressure’ animals.”

That’s it.

But here’s what it means for us.

When your horse feels pressure he’ll have
a built-in tendency to push back.

If you’ve ever pushed on a horse and he
wouldn’t budge or he pushed back…this is why.

Just like it is natural for your horse
to eat, it is natural for him to push against
pressure.

Thus, he has to be taught to “yield” to
pressure.  Just this subtle yet powerful piece of
information often stops the frustrations of horse
owners.

Often, this is blown by an impatient horse
owner because this takes time to do and the horse
owner doesn’t understand that.

Let’s say you want to teach your horse
to yield to your leg pressure.

Do you get on the saddle and start with
your leg?

You can if you like a workout, can hold
your leg in a position for a l-o-n-g time and have
the patience of Job.

Instead, do it from the ground.  Every
thing taught from the ground transfers to the
saddle.  It may have to be refined…but it still
transfers.

Thus, if you start by teaching your horse
to move his forequarters to the right, start by
putting a little pressure on his left side.  Apply
pressure in the area just behind his left elbow.

If you’re still unsure, go ahead and put
the saddle on and get on him.  Put your left foot
forward a little.

Notice where you’re touching the horse when
you apply pressure.

That’s where you’ll apply the pressure from
the ground when teaching him.  You need to apply the
pressure in the same area from the ground as you will
from the saddle.

Otherwise, Mr. Horse won’t “get it.”

Same goes for applying pressure to move
his hindquarters, and so on.

Never, never, ever (did I say “never”?)
start teaching to move from pressure by applying
heavy pressure.

Always start with light pressure.  You
ultimately want your horse to move from light
pressure.

If you teach him to move from heavy pressure,
you will wear yourself out!!!!!

Teach him to move from light pressure.  Any
time you apply a few ounces of pressure from a leg
aid or a rein pull…you want Mr. Horse to react.

This takes time and patience to teach but
is crucial in horse training.

Also, when you apply pressure, try to make
the applicator of pressure as similar to the aid as
possible.

In other words, when you apply pressure with
your foot just behind his elbow, do your best to
replicate the aid.

And that means you’ll likely be using your
hand to replicate what your foot will feel like.  So
when using your hand to teach moving from pressure,
try to make it feel like what your foot will feel like
when the horse feels it.

Does that make sense?

It helps to see it being done by a professional
showing you how so you understand the process.

One of the best examples I can think of
in showing this is from Sam Burrell.

http://horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-samburrell.html

Sam is one of our featured trainers.  He goes over
this in a LOT of detail and how to do it.

Watch Sam do it – it’ll create a dramatic change
in how you work with your horse and you will be
amazed at what YOU can do!

http://horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-samburrell.html

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That’s it for today.  Stay safe out there….

Charlie

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“Hi Charlie,

I have been to lots of clinics, read lots of books, watched lots of
DVD’s and got overload.  You emails are the best form of information
for someone like me who works alot and can’t spend endless hours
training.  You emails are to the point and easy to comprehend, which
makes doing what you say fun.  I have 4 horses and have probably
heard.” Keep the feet moving” a hundred times, but It obviously
didn’t penetrate until this email…….

Thanks for the emails and bless you for all the hard work on
keeping us horse people up to speed.

Sue”

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Do You Know These Horse Training Secrets?

Posted on June 14, 2011 by admin

Do You Know These Horse Training Secrets?

I have a series of “training secrets” I’m gonna
talk about over the next few days.  Today I’ll
start with something very basic.

When I tell you these secrets, you
may already know them.

Or…if you don’t know them, you
may think they are too simple to be useful.

So I’m gonna explain the implications
of each one.  Truth is, you must understand
these things before you can be a successful
horse trainer and handler.

Here goes…

“Horses are prey animals
and are motivated by safety,
comfort, food, and play.”

That’s it.

That’s the first secret.

Now, let’s talk about it for a second
and why this is important.  I urge you
not to shrug this off but read to the end.

Horses are prey animals.  That being
so, they get eaten by predators like a mouse
is consumed by a cat – at least – that’s the mindset.

Suppose it was your mindset that you
could be killed and eaten by a predator…would
you not want to be safe?

Heck yeah!

Because you’re fearful of being killed
and eaten you are therefore motivated to
escape danger.

Not only that, if you’re a horse your
brain is not capable of reasoning like a human
brain.  Instead, it reacts.

Thus, if a plastic bag goes rolling across
the front of the horse it could easily be perceived
as a threat since they can’t understand what it is.

And a threat, as you already know, means
the horse must escape to safety.

Next, humans are predators in the eyes
of the horse.  Most of us eat meat, we smell like
like predators to a horse, and so on.

Now imagine a horse trying to learn
what the human predator is teaching.  The horse
is already fearful.  The predator is making some
kind of threatening gesture to motivate the horse
to move.

Plus, the horse cannot reason that you’re not
out to hurt him.

Wow!  How overwhelming it must be.

Thus, when we want our horse to move in
the round pen we only need to motivate him just
enough to get him to move.

That’s it, that’s all, no more.

By doing more than that, the horse starts
desperately trying to figure out what you want.

And it’s not until the pressure of the motivation
disappears that he begins to understand.

[Remember my previous emails about pressure –
release?  It comes into play here a lot.]

Thus, if he’s bein’ chased in the round
pen with a pole and plastic bag and the person
chasing him doesn’t back off the pressure to signal
to the horse he’s doin’ what he wants, the horse
can panic, become confused, and may even attack.

Another important one is horses are
motivated by comfort.

Horses have a lazy nature.  They instinctively
know it’s not in their interest to run, run, run.

What’s comfortable is safety and relaxed
walking or standing.

So…for example…if you’re trying to
get your horse in a trailer and you’re having
trouble, one way to talk him into it is work him
outside of the trailer.

And once he gets in the trailer, he
gets petted.  He can eat a little.  He gets
brushed and so on.

The trick is to associate “comfort”
with being in the trailer because horses are
motivated by comfort.

If you really think about it, there’s
a lot implications to what motivates horses.

When you work with a horse, keep this
first secret in mind.  Knowing what motivates
a horse to do something is immensely valuable
when teaching him things.

I’ll have a couple more secrets like this for
you in the next few days.

OK?  Go work with your horses – but please do it safely!

Charlie

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Horse Training Quirks

Posted on May 20, 2011 by admin

It was Alexander Graham Bell.

He invented the phone but there was
something about it he didn’t like.

He refused to have the phone in his
study because…

“The ringing
drove him nuts!”

Kind of an odd quirk for someone who
invented the telephone.

Everyone has quirks.

Horse trainers have ’em for sure.

But what’s a quirk to them is actually
very calculated and usually necessary.

For instance, take Sam Burrell.

One of Sam’s horse training quirks is
he checks the horse’s hooves for soreness
more than most people do.

Sam’s very in tune with horses and how
they feel because he likes to get the
optimum from them or training doesn’t
go as well.

Besides, if you knew something was
wrong with the horse and his training
wasn’t up to par that day, at least
you’d know why.

Imagine gettin’ mad at the horse for
not doin’ what he’s supposed to do and
it’s because he doesn’t feel right.

Sam goes on to say that if your horse’s
performance drops off, then don’t assume
a bad attitude.

Why?

It may be they need some down time.  It could
be the horse is just doing too much of what
you’re asking.

Heck, in anything, too much is too much.

Even with humans.

Sam recommends if your horse is burned
out from training, then do a couple days
of no-stress riding to wherever.

What does this mean?

It just means you ride around and basically
guide your horse.

Don’t ask him to do much.

It’s a lot like us humans getting away
for the weekend because life is too
demanding and you need to do something different.

Sure, I know some will disagree with
this.  And that’s okay.

But if the horse is happy, he does better.
If he does better, so will you.

That’s Sam’s take on it and it’s important.

And if you want to more of Sam’s info,
you can read more by clicking here:

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-samburrell.html

Another important thing Sam preaches that you
should watch out for is being aware of the
horse’s progress deteriorating.

How can you tell if it is?

One, things they’ve done well
will start to get worse.

That’s a biggee.

Next, their body may be uptight.

Third, their tail may swish a lot.

That’s easy to spot.

And a real big sign is this.

The horse was doing something well and
you keep asking and asking and it just gets worse.

If that happens…back off.

Do what I said a minute ago and that is just
ride him around to wherever and guide him.

Ask very little of him.

In human terms, he just may need to
decompress.

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-samburrell.html

OK my friend,  that’s it for today.  Please stay safe.

Charlie

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