In Today’s Horse Tips Magazine Issue:
1. “The Amazing Benefits of Leading Your Horse”
2. NEW BOOK – Almost Ready. You ask – we deliver.
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1. “The Amazing Benefits of Leading Your Horse”
It’d surprise you.
Leading a horse is one of the most influential
exercises you can do with your horse.
Lots of people think it’s a simple thing one
should hurry and get past.
Truth is, it’s very beneficial.
First, it teaches your horse to maintain his
space from you – as long as you’re showing him
where his space is.
It also teaches your horse to listen to you.
As you lead your horse, feel free to talk to him.
Keep his attention on you because that’s where
you want it.
With leading you can help your understanding
what “whoa” means.
As you’re leading and just getting ready
to stop say,
“and…whoa”.
The reason I like to say “and” before I
say “whoa” is it tells the horse there’s
a command coming.
It’s like the yellow light in a stop light.
It’s not fair to say the command and expect
your horse to instantly stop.
The “and” precursor makes stopping workable.
Next, while you’re leading your horse you can
get him to do some quick lungeing.
Get him to step away from you and have him
go in a circle around you.
Switch directions.
Then lead again.
Why lunge?
The secret is in getting the horse’s feet to move.
When you get your horse’s feet to move he sees
you as the dominant one and he’ll respect that –
although you’ll likely find him challenging it
now and then.
The reason you want him to respect that you can
move him is that he’ll respect your position
as the alpha.
That’s important.
It causes him to listen better and be far
more willing to do what you ask.
And the secret to that part of it is don’t
be a dictator and be ruthless in making him
move around.
But don’t be a wimp either.
Only apply as much pressure as needed to get
your result but apply as much as it takes.
Start with the littlest and increase until
you get movement.
When we filmed Paul Esh, we showed him teaching
a horse to respect your space and much of it
was using leading.
There’s lots of good info showing various
things you should do.
For instance, if you’re leading your horse
from the side, you can stop him from crowding
your space by moving his forequarters.
But you have to teach him to move his
forequarters first before taking him for a walk.
Paul shows how to do it.
Check into what Paul can teach you by
clicking the following;
http://HorseTrainingResources.com/dvd-paulesh.html
Another handy tip you learn from Paul is what
to do if your horse is walking with you but
doesn’t stop.
Simply turn to look back at him and raise the rope.
Then if the horse still doesn’t stop, try
swinging the rope in front of them.
And lastly…and this is important…if the
horse still doesn’t stop, make him step back
a couple steps.
Why?
Because it’s not a natural thing to do.
It’s a bit uncomfortable.
Soon he’ll figure out it’s easier to stop
than to keep going and then having to step backwards.
http://HorseTrainingResources.com/dvd-paulesh.html
And that, my friends, is another one of those
“nuggets” you can learn that will make your
horse training job easier. It will get you
closer to the time when you can really enjoy
your horse rather than be fighting him all
the time.
And isn’t that what we all want and strive for?
http://HorseTrainingResources.com/dvd-paulesh.html
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2. NEW BOOK – Almost Ready. You ask – we deliver.
A while back I casually mentioned in an email
that I should put a collection of my email horse
tips together and publish it.
I was blown away at how many folks said they’d
love to have book of these tips. So, I started
working on it and am about to launch it.
I get literally dozens of emails monthly from those
who say they love to read these horse tips and
various musings about life and thankfulness.
I’ve taken dozens and dozens of these horse
tips and insights and put together Volume 1 of:
“A Collection of Horse Training
Tips, Secrets and Wisdom
The Celebrated Musings Of Useful Tips
And Insights Written Over The Years”
As you know, I’ve written not only about horses,
their care, training and riding – but also
some about my thoughts and reflections during
special occasions and even family stuff.
And want to know sumthin’? It’s been some
of those non-horse emails that have had
some of the highest responses. So I’ve
included some of them as well.
Anyway – you’ll see it soon – probably tomorrow.
We are going to release it as a PDF download
at a very special price first. I’m working on
getting it printed as well but that will take
a bit longer.
Oh – we’ll have a Kindle version and a Nook version
in a while as well!
I’m excited to release this – it represents many,
many hours of writing and sharing my thoughts and
insights over the last 6+ years.
–charlie
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That’s it for today. Stay safe out there….
Charlie
P.S. Just for those who read my emails:
You can use the coupon code CHARLIEHORSE
and take 10% OFF any order. Enter the code on the
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P.P.S. I’t coming! What? The new book release.
Hundreds asked for it – and I’m putting the final
touches on it and our web guys are about to update
the website for it.
Be watching Wednesday…
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