{"id":156,"date":"2009-10-12T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2009-10-12T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T18:55:17","slug":"horse-training-sometimes-we-just-dont-have-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/horse-training-sometimes-we-just-dont-have-a-clue\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Training Tips: Sometimes We Just Don&#8217;t Have A Clue"},"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>\u00a0\u00a0 Have you ever ventured into something only to realize<br \/>\nthat you &#8220;don&#8217;t have a clue&#8221; what you got into?<\/p>\n<p>I have.\u00a0 Multiple times.\u00a0 I tend to be one of those<br \/>\nwho will jump into something by saying &#8220;let&#8217;s try it,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll figure it out.\u00a0 Thousands of others are doing it<br \/>\nokay and we have at least average intelligence, to we can<br \/>\nlearn it as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you some insight from the experiences my wife<br \/>\nand I have had being involved in a ministry in our church.<\/p>\n<p>Our church has a policy that states that no one can be married<br \/>\nin our church unless the couple has gone through our<br \/>\npre-marriage program.\u00a0 We have multiple couples in the<br \/>\nchurch who have been through training to &#8220;facilitate&#8221;<br \/>\nthe program with the new couples who want to be married.<\/p>\n<p>We are &#8220;facilitators&#8221; and not &#8220;counselors&#8221; because we<br \/>\nare not licensed counselors.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; we get these new couple who are &#8220;in looooove&#8221;<br \/>\nand want to get married.\u00a0 Most are in their early 20&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gone through this process with at least two dozen<br \/>\ncouples now over the last few years.\u00a0 It is a six week<br \/>\nprocess we take them through and we dive into every phase of<br \/>\nmarriage you can imagine &#8211; including finances, intimacy,<br \/>\nwhat their home life was like when they were growing up, etc.<\/p>\n<p>While some couples really have it together, many of them<br \/>\ndo not.\u00a0 Whether they say it or not, it becomes<br \/>\nreal obvious that &#8220;we never thought of that&#8221; or<br \/>\n&#8220;we had no idea about that&#8221;.\u00a0 In a couple cases we even<br \/>\nsuggest that it is best for them not to continue due<br \/>\nto various reasons and provide other help ans assistance.<\/p>\n<p>We want them to start with a chance of succeeding because<br \/>\nwe know every relationship will have trials and adversity<br \/>\nand, if not prepared for it, will become another failed<br \/>\nrelationship that will end up hurting not only them, but<br \/>\nextended families as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not their fault much of the time.\u00a0 Either they<br \/>\nwere too infatuated with each other, marriage wasn&#8217;t ever<br \/>\nmodeled for them in their own parents, or whatever &#8211;<br \/>\nthey just didn&#8217;t know to even ask or think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Horse ownership and training is a lot like that, too.<\/p>\n<p>How many of you bought your first horse only to find<br \/>\nout that &#8220;OMG &#8211; this is hard&#8221; or &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t my horse<br \/>\nresponding to me&#8221;\u00a0 or &#8220;Why is my horse biting or kicking<br \/>\nme&#8221; or &#8220;I had no idea it would cost this much to keep this<br \/>\nhorse, buy tack, take lessons, pay the vet, and on and on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t start this horse-crazed hobby with all the<br \/>\nknowledge you needed to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>Just like we can find a mate and fall in love, we do that<br \/>\nwith our horses, too.\u00a0 We see those big eyes staring back<br \/>\nat us, see that majestic animal in the pen or out in the<br \/>\npasture and immediately fall in love.\u00a0 We start dreaming<br \/>\nof trail riding or showing or just wanting to be around<br \/>\nthis new love and start a new relationship with this<br \/>\nnew horse.\u00a0 Some go ga-ga and don&#8217;t have a clue what<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re getting into.<\/p>\n<p>It happens every day to hundreds, if not thousands.\u00a0 Then<br \/>\nreality sets in and we have to start training or fixing<br \/>\nproblems.\u00a0 Perhaps that new love has some quirks &#8211; he bites,<br \/>\nkicks, rears or bucks.\u00a0 He won&#8217;t come to you and you can&#8217;t<br \/>\ncatch him in the pasture.\u00a0 He won&#8217;t let you pick up his<br \/>\nfeet or he won&#8217;t stand to let you groom him or put<br \/>\non his saddle.<\/p>\n<p>He won&#8217;t walk, turn or stop right.\u00a0 You jerk, kick,<br \/>\npull, scream and get frustrated.\u00a0 Now the horse is even<br \/>\nmore confused and doesn&#8217;t have a clue what you want<br \/>\nbecause you haven&#8217;t learned enough to know how to<br \/>\nget him to move properly.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the horse is so frustrated with you all he<br \/>\nknows to do is try to remove the pressure, pulling,<br \/>\nand frustration by rearing or bucking you off.<\/p>\n<p>What just happened is natural for the horse but your<br \/>\nlack of understanding and training sees this as<br \/>\na &#8220;bad horse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar?\u00a0 Ever seen this before?\u00a0 Are you living with<br \/>\nsome of those issues right now?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we have to come to the realization that the<br \/>\nproblem is with us, not the horse.<\/p>\n<p>Anything worth doing is worth doing right.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t<br \/>\nhave control of your horse then you&#8217;re skirting danger.<br \/>\nI know this &#8211; a 1,200 pound horse which has lightning-fast<br \/>\nreactions and enormous strength is a time bomb waiting to<br \/>\ngo off, even with a trained handler or rider.<\/p>\n<p>Do me and yourself a favor right now &#8211; if you&#8217;re not<br \/>\nwilling to learn how to handle that horse correctly<br \/>\nand safely, and train it so it&#8217;s safe to ride, then<br \/>\nplease get rid of it.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t put yourself and others<br \/>\nin harm&#8217;s way.\u00a0 Statistics show that you&#8217;ll get hurt<br \/>\nand many times it will lead to broken bones, concussions,<br \/>\nor worse.<\/p>\n<p>That may sound harsh but it happens way too often.\u00a0 If<br \/>\nI&#8217;m the first one to tell it to you that way and it<br \/>\nkeeps you, others or even your horse from getting hurt<br \/>\nthen I&#8217;ll do it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of like the new couple who are blinded by love<br \/>\nand don&#8217;t see the train wreck coming in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Seek out those more experienced and trusted who have<br \/>\nproven themselves and listen to them.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are some that want to sell you a magic potion<br \/>\nthat would solve all your horse problems in a few days.<br \/>\nRun from them.\u00a0 Seek other help.\u00a0 Experience and insight<br \/>\ntake time to learn.\u00a0 It&#8217;s true with almost any skill.<\/p>\n<p>Horse training is no different.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a huge truth about horse training that you<br \/>\nneed to understand:<\/p>\n<p>Over half the problem is with the trainer and not the<br \/>\nhorse.\u00a0 Until the one doing the training understands<br \/>\nhow horses learn and know how to get the horse to start<br \/>\nproperly acting on the commands over and over each time<br \/>\nwhen asked, then nothing is good is going to come<br \/>\nout of the training attempts.<\/p>\n<p>You MUST understand the nature of the horse, how his<br \/>\nbrain works and how he learns.<\/p>\n<p>Know this: the horse already has all the ability to do<br \/>\nall the basic stuff you want it to do.\u00a0 It&#8217;s up to<br \/>\nthe trainer to teach the horse each command and act<br \/>\non it properly in a controlled fashion.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do you get there you ask?<\/p>\n<p>You study, you watch others do it successfully and<br \/>\nlearn along the way.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t happen over night.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me any valuable skill or trade you have learned<br \/>\nthat didn&#8217;t take quite a while to learn.<\/p>\n<p>We have assembled various resources to help you and we<br \/>\nhave never sugar-coated or &#8220;hyped&#8221; 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or &#8220;nuggets&#8221;<br \/>\nthat you can apply to any horse in lots of situations.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to these professionals is like learning from<br \/>\nthe &#8220;Jedi Master&#8221; in their own specialty.\u00a0 You can<br \/>\nlearn a lot if you pay attention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/DVD.html\" title=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/DVD.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/DVD.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a microwave fix to your horse<br \/>\nproblems then please don&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n<p>With one exception &#8211; and that is our <a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/bridle.html\" title=\"Beery Pulley Bridle\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>pulley bridle<\/strong><\/a> &#8211;<br \/>\nmost things take many, many repetitions before your<br \/>\nhorse finally &#8220;gets it&#8221;.\u00a0 You can read some of the<br \/>\ntestimonials many of our pulley bridle uses have<br \/>\nhad to solve certain problems here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/bridle.html\" title=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/bridle.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/bridle.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many have been amazed how well and how fast it works.<\/p>\n<p>OK &#8211; 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