{"id":117,"date":"2009-02-17T13:11:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2009-02-17T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:11:25","slug":"how-to-get-your-horse-to-stop-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/how-to-get-your-horse-to-stop-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Your Horse To Stop &#8216;RIGHT NOW&#8217;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/authover.css\" media=\"screen\" \/>\r\n\t       <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/simplemodel.css\" media=\"screen\"\/>\r\n\t          <script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n\tsrc=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery-1.7.2.min.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery.simplemodal.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/authover.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\t\tvar jq = jQuery.noConflict();\r\n\t\t\t\tfunction openPopup(url,width,height,delay,useajax,iframe,exitt){\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\talert(url);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tauthover.configure({\r\n\t\t\t\t\tiFrameAttribute : {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"name\" : \"autFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"id\" : \"authFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"src\" : \"http:\/\/wikipedia.com\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"height\" : \"100%\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"width\" : \"100%\"\r\n\t\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\t\tmodalContent : url,\r\n\t\t\t\twidth : width,\r\n\t\t\t\theight : height,\r\n\t\t\t\tdelay : delay,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupUseAjax: 0,\r\n\t\t\t\ttargetUseIframe: iframe,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupIsRedirect: useajax,\r\n\t\t\t\texitAlertText: exitt\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t\tauthover.triggerModal();\r\nreturn false;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/script><p>&#8220;How To Get Your Horse To Stop &#8216;RIGHT NOW&#8217;!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It can be real dangerous.<br \/>\nThousands are hurt every year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably one of the most important<br \/>\nthings you can teach your horse.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that?<\/p>\n<p>Teach the command &#8220;Whoa&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t mean slow down.<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t mean maybe.<\/p>\n<p>And it doesn&#8217;t mean stop then go again.<\/p>\n<p>It means STOP, Right Now and stand there<br \/>\nuntil you tell the horse to go again.<\/p>\n<p>I need to tell you a story about my kids (I have 5).<\/p>\n<p>When my first child (a daughter) was about 3<br \/>\nshe almost stepped out in front of a moving car.<\/p>\n<p>It was noisy and I called her name<br \/>\nbut she didn&#8217;t hear me.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided at that point to teach my<br \/>\nkids to respond to a signal that whenever<br \/>\nthey heard it they were to stop and look<br \/>\ntowards me and get eye contact immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Not a few seconds later.<br \/>\nNot when they wanted too.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately.<\/p>\n<p>My signal?\u00a0 A sharp whistle I can do &#8211; sort<br \/>\nof like how some put two fingers in their mouth &#8211;<br \/>\nbut I can do it without my fingers.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how many times over the years<br \/>\nwith all five kids that has been helpful &#8211; and<br \/>\nhas kept our kids from danger.<\/p>\n<p>It also works in a big crowd when you get<br \/>\nseparated.\u00a0 And it doesn&#8217;t matter how old they are.<\/p>\n<p>We can be anywhere &#8211; outside, in the mall,<br \/>\nin a parking lot, at a gym or arena,<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>They always stop and look my direction.<\/p>\n<p>So the same is true with your horses.<\/p>\n<p>When you say &#8220;Whoa&#8221; your horse should<br \/>\nstop and wait for direction.<\/p>\n<p>See if these sound familiar:<\/p>\n<p>1. My horse won&#8217;t stop no matter how hard<br \/>\nI pull the reins and scream &#8216;STOP&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>2. My horse will FINALLY stop, but it takes<br \/>\na hundred feet or more to do so.<\/p>\n<p>3. My horse will stop fairly quickly but<br \/>\ntakes off again right away.<\/p>\n<p>4. Every time I head back home my horse takes<br \/>\noff and I can&#8217;t get him stopped until<br \/>\nwe reach the barn.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard more like these&#8230;most of them<br \/>\nwere variations of the above.<\/p>\n<p>From a pure safety standpoint, I can&#8217;t think<br \/>\nof anything more important than<br \/>\nteaching your horse &#8216;Whoa&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine being confronted with a situation where<br \/>\nyou are riding into danger and your horse doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nwant to stop and just keeps going&#8230;..<br \/>\nit&#8217;s happened many times and quite often both<br \/>\nhorse and rider are hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember &#8211; you must teach your horse that<br \/>\n&#8216;Whoa&#8217; means stop and stand still.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all it means.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t use the command &#8216;Whoa&#8217;<br \/>\nfor anything else or your horse will be confused.<\/p>\n<p>In Beery&#8217;s Book 1 &#8216;Colt Training&#8217;, Prof. Beery teaches<br \/>\nthe command &#8216;Whoa&#8217; using a bridle, long lines and a<br \/>\ntraining surcingle.<\/p>\n<p>You can rig up something similar to a surcingle with<br \/>\nrope, long straps, etc. and run them through the<br \/>\nstirrups of a saddle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a direct quote from Beery&#8217;s book:<\/p>\n<p>Harness the colt as in the previous lesson, and have<br \/>\nit in the same enclosure. In this lesson give the<br \/>\ncolt a thorough review of the previous lesson<br \/>\n[the command &#8216;Get Up&#8217;] and add the additional<br \/>\ncommand, &#8216;Whoa.&#8217; If you have said &#8216;Whoa&#8217; before this,<br \/>\nyou might as well have said any other word in any<br \/>\nlanguage so far as the colt knowing it meant &#8216;stop.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The meaning of this command will only become apparent<br \/>\nto the colt when it is associated with an action,<br \/>\nand the first time you use the command, be sure that<br \/>\nyou are in a position to follow with the action.<\/p>\n<p>We now suppose that you have started the colt with<br \/>\nthe command, &#8216;Get-up&#8217;, and it is obedient to the bit,<br \/>\nand, you are now ready to stop. Pull the left line tight,<br \/>\nand hold steady with the left hand; grasp the right<br \/>\nline about a foot ahead of the left hand, the right<br \/>\nline not drawn tight.<\/p>\n<p>Say &#8216;Whoa&#8217; decisively and distinctly, and immediately<br \/>\nfollow with a sharp jerk on the right line, followed<br \/>\nby slackening both lines. If necessary to stop the colt,<br \/>\nrepeat the word and action.<\/p>\n<p>It helps the colt to receive the impression if it is<br \/>\nstopped the first few times at the same spot. The third<br \/>\nor fourth time coming around to this spot, it probably<br \/>\nwill stop at command without the action of the lines.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the colt shows an inclination to stop at<br \/>\nthis spot, without either action or command, force<br \/>\nit on by the command, &#8216;Get-up&#8217;, and stop it at another<br \/>\nplace. It will be necessary to follow the command with<br \/>\nan action at this new place. Repeat the command,<br \/>\nand the action, if necessary, until the colt stops<br \/>\nat the command at any place, without the action<br \/>\nand with the lines as in the illustration.<\/p>\n<p>Always relax the lines as soon as the colt stops.<br \/>\nTeach the colt that &#8216;Whoa&#8217; means &#8216;Stop,&#8217; whether you are<br \/>\nbehind it or at either side. It is not thoroughly<br \/>\ntrained with this word until it stops with you ten,<br \/>\nfifteen or twenty-five feet away.<\/p>\n<p>This is the most important command you have to<br \/>\nteach your horse. Your life or the lives of your<br \/>\nfriends or others may sometimes depend upon your<br \/>\nhorse being so thoroughly trained to stop at command,<br \/>\nthat under all circumstances or under any excitement,<br \/>\nhe must obey.<\/p>\n<p>Never use the word unless you mean it, and be prepared<br \/>\nto let your colt understand you mean it. Use only<br \/>\nthe one word to mean stop and let that word mean only<br \/>\nthe one act. If, for instance, you want your horse<br \/>\nmerely to slow down, use some other word, as &#8216;steady.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that once you finish teaching the<br \/>\ncommand &#8216;Whoa&#8217; from the ground that you also need<br \/>\nto do teach the same thing while mounted.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple tricks that may help to teach your<br \/>\nhorse to stop using the command &#8216;Whoa&#8217; when mounted.<\/p>\n<p>1. Just like from the ground, hold the left rein<br \/>\nfairly tight and give sharp jerk on the right<br \/>\nrein while saying &#8216;Whoa&#8217; like you mean it.\u00a0 Then<br \/>\nimmediately let the reins go slack.<br \/>\nThen &#8211; wait&#8230;.\u00a0 in fact, some trainers like to<br \/>\ncount to 10.\u00a0 This gives the horse a chance to let<br \/>\nit sink in and not confuse anything that follows<br \/>\nWhoa with anything else.<\/p>\n<p>2. Once stopped, wait a few seconds and have the horse<br \/>\nback up a couple steps.\u00a0 What you&#8217;re doing by that<br \/>\nis teaching the horse that you don&#8217;t always go<br \/>\nforward after stopping and using the command &#8216;Whoa&#8217;.<br \/>\nTry this 2 or 3 times in a row&#8230;.\u00a0 go forward,<br \/>\ngive the command Whoa, have the horse stop immediately,<br \/>\nmake him stand for a few seconds, then back him up<br \/>\na couple steps.\u00a0 It will help break that habit of<br \/>\nwanting to immediately start walking forward again<br \/>\nprior to telling the horse to move.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure your horse stops on the command.<br \/>\nOne of the scariest situations is to be on a horse<br \/>\nthat won&#8217;t stop and those fence posts keep whizzing by&#8230;<br \/>\nit&#8217;s dangerous!\u00a0 Don&#8217;t put yourself, your horse and<br \/>\nothers around you in that predicament.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no laughing matter and certainly unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>J.J. Rydberg teaches how to &#8216;finish a stop&#8217; in his video<br \/>\n(along with lots of other valuable things).\u00a0 You can<br \/>\nread about his video here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-jjrydberg.html<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the Jesse Beery 8 volume manual on<br \/>\nhorse training is a wealth of information distilled<br \/>\nover many years and successfully training hundreds<br \/>\nof horse all across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read more of Beery&#8217;s course here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/beery.html<\/p>\n<p>Ok&#8230; that&#8217;s it for today &#8211; stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p>Charlie<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Safety in riding and handling horses is so critical.<br \/>\nI have published the statistics in the past about how<br \/>\nso many thousands have not only been hurt but many have<br \/>\nbeen crippled, get brain trauma and even killed &#8211; every year.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t completely control your horse then PLEASE<br \/>\ndo something about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a serious accident, I&#8217;m glad to admit your<br \/>\nnewsletters have helped both myself and my horse.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>Nannette&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How To Get Your Horse To Stop &#8216;RIGHT NOW&#8217;!&#8221; It can be real dangerous. Thousands are hurt every year. 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