{"id":147,"date":"2009-06-04T12:28:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T18:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-12-11T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T02:35:06","slug":"horse-training-you-dont-know-what-you-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/horse-training-you-dont-know-what-you-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Training: You Don&#8217;t Know What You Don&#8217;t Know"},"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><strong>&#8220;You Don&#8217;t Know What You Don&#8217;t Know&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p>First &#8211; here&#8217;s great a note from Pete about his use of<br \/>\nThe Horse Library.\u00a0 Pete is the Officer-in-charge of the<br \/>\nOneida County Sheriff&#8217;s Mounted patrol.\u00a0 Besides other<br \/>\nhonors, Pete went to the North American Police Equestrian<br \/>\nChampionship in Kingston Ontario in Sept. 2008.\u00a0 All 3 of<br \/>\nhis horses placed in top ten out of 179 entries!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what he says about The Horse Library:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What little time I&#8217;ve spent there has been rewarding &#8211;<br \/>\nwatching Sam Burrell&#8217;s series is terrific! So far has been<br \/>\ngreat value for the price-I am the officer- in-charge for<br \/>\nthe Oneida County Sheriff&#8217;s Mounted and also the training officer &#8211;<br \/>\n54 years with horses.<\/p>\n<p>I learn something new each day! Thanks again&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[thanks Pete &#8211; keep up the great work &#8211; and thanks<br \/>\nfor your service.\u00a0 Charlie]<\/p>\n<p>Pete&#8217;s last line: &#8220;I learn something new each day!&#8221;<br \/>\nties in with today&#8217;s tip.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about The Horse Library here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.horsetrainingresources.com\/TheHorseLibrary.html<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Know What You Don&#8217;t Know&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Profound statement, eh?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m 57 years old.\u00a0 I assure you, I become<br \/>\nmore aware of that statement being TRUE every day<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m not ashamed to say so.<\/p>\n<p>Let me give you an example:<\/p>\n<p>We have a Red Hot trainer named Kenny Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Is Kenny that good?<\/p>\n<p>Let me describe some of his credentials,<br \/>\nthen you decide.<\/p>\n<p>First, Kenny grew up in the horse<br \/>\nbusiness.\u00a0 Kenny started earning money at<br \/>\n12 years old breaking colts.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, Kenny won the World in Western Riding.<\/p>\n<p>He also made the finals in the World<br \/>\nin Western Riding 20 times.\u00a0 Plus, he made the<br \/>\nfinals in the Congress in Western Pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Achievements like these are amazing<br \/>\nconsidering the World Competition is by<br \/>\n&#8220;Invitation Only&#8221; where the best of the best<br \/>\nof the best &#8220;from around the world&#8221; compete<br \/>\nagainst each other.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see what Kenny has to<br \/>\noffer, click on the following:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-kennyscott.html<\/p>\n<p>But that leads me to what I started with:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t know what you don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still amazed at the stuff I learn<br \/>\nas I meet with new trainers.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered long ago if I can learn<br \/>\njust one thing&#8230;.one little thing&#8230;then I<br \/>\nwill better myself another notch.<\/p>\n<p>Especially in the interview we did with Kenny &#8211;<br \/>\nI learned things I wouldn&#8217;t have<br \/>\nhad I not listened to him.<\/p>\n<p>And just as importantly, I was reminded<br \/>\nof good stuff I had forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, you know how people say that<br \/>\n&#8220;Whoa&#8221; is the most important thing a horse<br \/>\nneeds to know?<\/p>\n<p>Kenny says going forward is the most<br \/>\nimportant thing.<\/p>\n<p>I love it when someone says something contrary<br \/>\nto what everyone else says because it<br \/>\nmakes me stop and think about it.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Kenny&#8217;s won the World so I&#8217;m<br \/>\ngonna listen to what he says.<\/p>\n<p>And why does he say going forward is the<br \/>\nmost important thing?<\/p>\n<p>Because a horse needs to move.<\/p>\n<p>And the idea of riding is teaching the horse<br \/>\nto follow his head.<\/p>\n<p>If he&#8217;s not moving forward, he won&#8217;t follow<br \/>\nhis head and you won&#8217;t get him to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>And another important tip is this.<\/p>\n<p>If he doesn&#8217;t know to move forward very good,<br \/>\nhe won&#8217;t have the &#8220;wanting to stop&#8221; as you exercise him.<\/p>\n<p>You see, one of the ways to teach a<br \/>\nhorse to stop is to not stop.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ask him to stop for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, keep him moving.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, he&#8217;s gonna want to stop.<\/p>\n<p>He will appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>And unless you were able to get him going<br \/>\nforward and doing it well&#8230;the stop won&#8217;t<br \/>\nbe as appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>And he therefore won&#8217;t be looking for<br \/>\nthe stop as readily.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I like that way of thinking<br \/>\nthat Kenny does.<\/p>\n<p>Next, here&#8217;s a little gold nugget Kenny<br \/>\ntells in his interview that a lot of<br \/>\npeople don&#8217;t get.<\/p>\n<p>And that is this.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the horse will get bored with<br \/>\nwhat you have him doing and he&#8217;ll look for<br \/>\nsomething else to do.\u00a0 So we add a degree of<br \/>\ndifficulty to offset that.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever thought about that?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been my experience&#8230;and I&#8217;ve heard other<br \/>\ntrainers say it&#8230;.a horse needs to be entertained or<br \/>\nthey will look for ways to do it.<\/p>\n<p>When I say entertained I simply mean they need<br \/>\nsomething new to do or they get bored.<\/p>\n<p>A bored horse doesn&#8217;t learn as well and is<br \/>\nharder to train and therefore ride.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, keep it interesting for your horse but<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t make it too hard.<\/p>\n<p>As Kenny says, add a degree of difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the degrees of difficulty you added<br \/>\nwill make your horse a better and safer ride.<\/p>\n<p>See what I mean about learning from other<br \/>\ntrainers?<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to learn more of what Kenny<br \/>\nreveals, click on the following:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-kennyscott.html<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another valuable tip Kenny reveals.<\/p>\n<p>When you ride, imagine a plumb bob going<br \/>\nfrom your shoulders to your hips.<\/p>\n<p>Your shoulders and hips need to be in a line.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s the most athletic riding<br \/>\nposition to use.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the safest, easiest, and most correct.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like putting yourself in position to<br \/>\nreceive a serve from a tennis ball.<\/p>\n<p>When you receive a tennis ball serve, you<br \/>\nwant to be in position.\u00a0 You want to be as ready<br \/>\nas you can be.\u00a0 You must be in an athletic position.<\/p>\n<p>Same with riding a horse.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-kennyscott.html<\/p>\n<p>OK&#8230; 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