Horse Training: Can You Leverage Your Skills?

Horse Training: Can You Leverage Your Skills?
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As an elementary student (many, many years ago!)
I learned that Archimedes once said:

“Give me a lever (fulcrum) and a place to stand and I will move the world”.

I can still remember what I envisioned in my young mind
at the time with him standing in space with a very long
pole and moving the earth from it’s current orbit.

Using the leverage power of the fulcrum we can literally
move things weighing hundreds of pounds with very little effort.

Horse training is very similar – take a relatively weak
human that tries to get a 1,000+ pound animal to step,
jump, turn, run, and stop by a simple voice, squeeze or
rein movement.  It’s an amazing process.

Yet knowing the whole time the horse has the capacity to
completely overpower you and the ability to do much harm!

Now we don’t use actual fulcrums much in horse training but
we do learn a set of skills to train and handle horses
in certain ways that gives us the relative power to
handle these huge, powerful animals with little effort.

We can use these skills to leverage the control of
our horses so they do what we want on command.

Jesse Beery really understood a horse’s character and
researched, tested and wrote about it a lot.

Beery’s understanding of the horse’s disposition,
how their brains work, their nervous system, etc.
is what made his methods so useful and famous.

When you realize how horses thinks and the fact that
they do not have the capacity to reason like you and I,
then you are set to make great strides in training.

Here’s what Prof. Beery says in his “Intro to Horse Training”:

“Failure to understand the nature, disposition, nervous
system and mental limitations of the horse is responsible
for the widespread prevalence of bad habits in horses,
for countless disastrous accidents, and for an appalling
loss in the market value of horses.

The pursuit of this fascinating study will repay a
hundred fold the small amount of time and effort
required to master it thoroughly.”

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Are you in need of some additional skills that will
help you control your horses in a safe manor?

Does your horse exhibit any bad behaviors you need
to fix or overcome so that you can enjoy them more,
stop fighting them and enable you to safely ride them?

I would urge you to take a realistic inventory of how
well you can control your horse.  If there are things
you need to fix, especially those things that can be
harmful or even life-threatning to you, then get the
Jesse Beery training books now and start working on
them.

You’ll be glad you did.  There’s nothing like enjoying
a horse that does what it’s told and doesn’t spook, shy,
buck, rear, bite, etc….  a horse that you need not fear.

Click below to read more about Prof. Jesse Beery’s
training course.  It’s really not expensive at all
compared to the costs of keeping a horse and the
enjoyment you can gain from it when you can truly
control it.

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Take care…  stay safe around your horses.

Charlie

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Horse Training Principles: Does Your Horse Crossfire?

Does Your Horse Crossfire?

Here’s trainer Andy Curry talking about crossfire:

Months ago I interviewed pro horse
trainer Danie Hewlett.

She and her husband Doug train Reining
horses.

While talking she pointed out how horses oughtt to be good ‘leaded’.

That’s not ‘led-ed’,…it’s pronounced
‘leed-ed’ – like you would ‘lead’ a horse.

Anyway, after a horse is fairly broke
it simply boils down to whether the horse has physical and mental
capabilities to to do reining maneuvers.

But the #1 thing says Danie, is the horse should be ‘leaded’.

That means that when the horse runs
small and big circles, he should stay true to his lead.

Danie noted that lots of horses cannot
run fast without falling out of it’s lead.

A horse in the correct lead has his
inside front and back feet leading.

If the horse falls out of his lead, his hind end goes out
and suddenly his lead has shifted.

This is called a ‘Crossfire’.

When Danie and her husband begin Reining training with horses,
that’s the first thing they look at.

If they’re dealing with a horse that can’t stay in it’s lead,
then they say, ‘Next’.

Most horse owners don’t have that luxury.
But the Hewletts do this for a living and it doesn’t make
sense for them to train one to do it.

Why?

Because they want the horse to stay in his lead naturally.

Danie says there are too many horses that do it naturally
and there’s no sense in training a horse to do it.

In Reining competitions, every time a horse goes out of lead
a point is deducted.  So from a competition stand point, it
doesn’t make sense to work with a horse that does that.

From the Hewlett’s point of view, it makes sense because it’s
how they make their living.

But what if you have a horse that falls out of his lead?

Should you sell him and get a different horse?

Naw…unless you want to.

If you’re going to train them for Reining competitions
then you might – otherwise…no.

But I’ll tell you this.

If you don’t know much about Reining
you should look into it because there’s a lot you can learn
about getting your horse to do different things.

For example, when we filmed Danie and Doug for the Reining
DVD’s, they showed how to evaluate a horse.

Danie started off with some lungeing,
explained what she was looking for, etc.

It’s good stuff to know if you’re going to stay in the horse
world – even if you’re not going to train professionally.

All horse owners have a responsibility
to themselves, their horses, and those around them to
know all they can.

This horse thing can get perplexing at
times and the more you know, the better off you are.

Thus, if you want to know more about the Hewletts and their
Reining info, click on the following:

Danie and Doug Hewlett Reining DVD

Here’s an example why it’s good to know this stuff.

Did you know some horses have trouble giving their chin?

Do you know why?

It’s because their neck is built such that it’s hard for
them to do.

Kinda like a muscular guy would have trouble scratching his
opposite shoulder because his chest is so big and he can’t
cross him arm over.

In a way…it’s like that.

A horse that can’t give his chin very good may choke himself.

Then it will always be a fight – and that won’t work.

But if you didn’t know what I just told you…how long would
you have fought it and suffered frustration before you got fed
up and sold your horse?

Danie and Doug Hewlett Reining DVD

Ok.. stay safe around your horses…

Charlie

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The School Bully and Horse Training

Is Your Horse On Edge?

Here’s Andy Curry talking about the school bully and horse training:

Has this ever happened to you?

In my younger days, about…ohhh.. 35 years ago…
I remember the proverbial bully picking on people.

As bullies do, he singled out one person in particular.

The victim (who is now a very prominent citizen of our town)
was a bit different from all the other kids.

His mannerisms were silly – but it turns out that’s part of
personality and one reason why people like him so much.

He’s got a great sense of humor – and
did back then.

He loved to have fun and joke around.

But…he has a funny name.  At least,
at the time it seemed funny.

It seemed funny because no one else had a name like his.

Combine his funny name with his mannerisms and you have
the perfect victim for a bully.

His name, by the way, is Staffon.

Anyway, I remember the school bully picking on him
in the hallways.

Poor ol’ Staffon couldn’t go to his locker without
wondering whether or not the school bully was lurking
about…waiting to pounce and embarrass and humiliate.

I’m quite sure Staffon rarely had the confidence that
he wasn’t going to be picked on.

He got to where he’d hurriedly get his stuff from his
locker and head out.

Why?

His locker was just a couple lockers away from
the school bully.

When I think about that, my heart hurts because I
do not believe the school bully had a clue as to how
terrorized Staffon felt.

It makes me angry thinkin’ about it.

Ain’t no one got a right to screw with
someone else’s life!

Yet, it happened.

Today I wonder if the school bully has any remorse
about that.

Looking back, does he realize the terror he struck
in his victim?

Does he know how he made Stafforn miserable?

Does he know how humiliated Staffon felt as the bully’s
friends nervously laughed as he pushed Staffon around?

What the bully didn’t realize is how he created a disdain
for himself from a lot of people – people he never picked
on yet they hated his antics.

The bully was a bully for whatever reason.

At the time, I don’t think he knew how badly he
hurt people.

That’s the thing – he didn’t “know” he hurt people
to the extent he did. (That’s my guess, anyway)

And the moral here is this.

Horses have to have the confidence they aren’t going to
be terrorized either.

That’s why you stop applying pressure once they move.

Keep applying pressure and they’ll never know what you
want.  If the pressure never lets up, they’ll get confused
and soon feel terrorized.

But there’s more.

Heavy hands are a biggee.

Many a horse are not cooperative when flexing because
they’ve been yanked on, jerked, kicked, or whatever.

They’ve likely felt terrorized.

Would you be cooperative if YOU felt terrorized?

You may or may not.

At some point, you may fight back because you just
couldn’t take it anymore.

Horses fight back too.

They do it in their own way that may not seem like they’re
fightin’ back…but they fight back nonetheless.

Now I’m NOT trying to suggest you are intentionally
(or even unintentionally) mean with your horse.

I’m just reminding you to look at this from your horse’s
point of view.

The more confidence your horse has that nothing bad is
going to happen with him when you’re around…the better
the relationship and willingness he offers and the safer
you will therefore be.

The more he learns.

The easier he’ll be to catch.

The less he will crowd your space.

The less dangerous he will be to you.

Yada, yada, yada.

But that doesn’t mean you have to be a “wus”
with him either.

If you’re not sure how firm you need to be with a horse
then use this model – It’s like being a loving parent
to a 6 year old.

You have to be firm but you can’t be a dictator.

Believe it or not, if you’re not firm and you’re too soft
then he gets the confidence of runnin’ you over.

That’s the wrong kind of confidence.

All this confidence talk is one of the greatest things
J.J. Rydberg reveals in his DVD when we filmed him.

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Here’s another thing to think about.

It is VITAL you know whether or not the horse is bein’
rude to you.

Because if you think he is when he’s really not and then
you discipline him…that isn’t fair.  Plus, he then will
lose confidence in you.

For instance, if you’re riding him and he shakes his
head a lot.

Maybe you don’t like it when he does that.

Maybe you think he’s trying to tell you he doesn’t want
you on his back.

But you say, “Look here Mister…you’re not gonna do that.”

So you boot him in the ribs and make him go.

But if you were lacking the knowledge, perhaps he has
wolf teeth and you didn’t know it.

When the bit hits those teeth it hurts like you chewin’
on tin foil with cavities.

When the bit touches the wolf teeth, it sends an electrical
shock to his brain.

It’s painful!

So he has to shake his head to shake off the pain and move
the bit away from the wolf teeth.

Yet…he got booted in the ribs and got in trouble.

Can’t you imagine him thinking, “Why did he get mad at me?
My mouth hurts…especially when he pulls on the rein.”

And just think what happens next time you ride.

Will he have confidence that nothing bad is going to happen?

Might your safety be in jeopardy?

That, my friend, is the value of learning all you can about horses.
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Ok…  good words and understanding.  Be safe around your horses!

Charlie

P.S. Thanks to all of you for the words of encouragement
about the emails we send out.  We appreciate the feedback.
It’s always good to know folks are not only reading the emails
but are also learning and using the information we share.

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