He Put her Trainer in the Hospital 😳Pt. 2

you hear that so he did that quicker today that's a nice blowout and he didn't do that on the ground which is interesting so that means he's we set it up right where he's finding relief CU he's the most relaxed now after blowing out than what we did on the ground so that's a that's a win right there hey everyone welcome back to another video uh we're here with Doney again this is our second session about six months ago my horse trainer was working with him and he threw the buck and she went off and landed in the hospital and in intensive care for several months um almost killed her and um I was just talking to his owner Kathleen and the overall theme is we need to get him to see us as the leader and then we need to increase his thresholds or tolerances of things to make him safer to ride under saddle so we're going to see what we can get done let's get into it I want to thank the sponsor of today's video ABI attachments more about that in a minute so the way you get a horse to see you as a leader so I want he needs to trust me but he needs to also see the human as the leader and in Horse World horse speak the way you do that is by controlling their feet but he's got to do it in a relaxed way it's got to be light he's got to be participating in it so it's not just moving his body around and that guarantees that we got to his mind it's doing less first and expecting a high quality of response to what we're asking for or high quality of understanding is a better way to say it of what we're asking for and so I like to think about it in terms of like percentages you know so it's it's like I want to get a the goal is 100% out of every thing we ask what it's backup hind quarter yield four quarter yield side pass Circle you you name it um we're not going to get that the first time but that has to be the goal and so to get 100% out of let's say a Hine quarter yield there would be slack in the Rope he would pivot on his front feet and yield his hind quarters until he sees me out of the other eye so a a big focus with him is going to be hind quarter yields and yielding his rib cage right there see he kind of signed up participate he saw me out of his right eye that would be better but now I had to go a little faster I had to put a little feel on the rope and so I would give that uh 60% you know um and so what I was kind of explaining to her is that on a on a bad day you're banking on some of the stuff that you put into it so that you're on a bad day your minimum is 60% on a good day it should be 70 80 90% um uh and so a bad day could be like the weather's bad it's windy another horse is acting up there's more commotion going on maybe you're not feeling great um you know you had some stress going on in your life so all those things are going to affect how our horse is uh dayto day now here he anticipated me walking over there so this time I'm just going to go over here and rub him cuz I hadn't got to the part where I asked him to yield his high quarters yet and so in that example he read my energy not my intention my intention was to come over here and um start to ask but he beat me to it and so that would be more of a reaction than a response so anytime he gives me a reaction I'm just going to rub him and wait till it's more relaxed I'll step back change my intention and there that was almost 100% that was really good was a really good quality yield there same thing and we've noticed that from the first session that he's more defensive on his right side is the way I would Des Des cribe it he kind of knows what to do on this side but he is a little more protective of things on this side and it doesn't take much to cause a horse to do that you know you need to train a horse equally on both sides um but all it takes is maybe a bad experience on this right side and um that can turn into an issue of course you know a horse can have a physical issue and that's why they maybe are worse on one side or the other but with him we're feeling pretty confident that it's it's more of a mental mental issue that was better very good everything he does is like pretty classic like a horse that didn't have a thorough Foundation head holes and now I'm going to I'm not going to focus a lot on his four quarter yield that's we tend to do that more with horses that are more dominant or left what we call left brained he is innately a little more right brained and he and he holds tension in his rib cage and so getting him to blow out is going to the way to do that is going to be bending his ribs so the three Circle game is going to be really powerful uh for him and then also a side passing so ABI attachments hooked me up uh with the tr3 eer arena drag and this thing is incredible I mean it is like having a person assistant for your Arena because it does everything it's got a scraping blade here that kind of air rates the soil and can cut out grass if you got some grass growing in it's got a level floating leveling blade that is incredible for 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partial disengagement in his hind quarters and this is again exactly what I'm going to ask for with the relax rain technique when I'm riding him and I'm asking him to put his body in a more vulnerable position and so horses kind of come out of the box uh with a counterbend and they want to walk around with their ribs to the inside and their nose to the outside and that's their every horse's innate response so to whatever degree your horse doesn't circle like that or doesn't ride like that somebody or you took the time to teach them not to go like that and um we want him to find some comfort and relief in this position and oh I like this on this right side he's turning loose to this a little better today very good very good so you see that partial disengagement there and where the the money is is at the Trot getting him to turn loose to the set of Trot cuz the Trot gets them breathing a little more where he'll start to turn loose to that a little bit more and I'm not interested in how long he does it for I'm interested in the quality of how he's moving around and him starting to hold that position so I'm when I release him is when I feel like I was able to do less and he started to hold that position so with this hand I like to keep it by my hip and then I use the stick kind of like a sko here if I needed forward I would go like this um but when I want Bend I hold the stick vertically like this there so he's we had a few steps there when I said there prior to that we had a few steps through here where he held it and he Bend his head and neck in it was just a few moments in it but we want to grow that to where he can hold that position for longer and longer now you were side passing him on the fence but I would also like to encourage you to start side passing him off the fence um because this is a lot harder CU they're going to be tempted to walk forward and so why I'm interested in this for him is I want him to be very thoughtful about everything he's doing so he ran into pressure with the stick me waving it up and down here when he crossed that line so I'm going to look I kind of line up with a t TST over there and I'm going to walk on this line and I'm going to ask him to side pass without going forward and so he doesn't he knows how to side pass but he doesn't know how to not go forward yet and then I'm going to let him kind of get reled so it's he runs into pressure when he goes forward he gets relief here what people are tempted to do is try to manage that with the lead rope and don't don't do that it's about him having to connect to the idea that's where the value is at is him thinking so he's innately in my opinion a more right brained horse um what I would call a right brain introvert um but every horse has a left brain side right and it's like a muscle the more you expose them to that the stronger it gets also the the more they can stay left brained in a more intense situation like if you can stay left brain while he's trotting or loping or side passing that will also make it stronger it's like it's like adding more weight to an exercise that you're doing you know or sprinting versus walking or jogging you know it's more intense it's going to have a little more value there at certain certain types so we want to build how long he can stay there but then we want to build the strength of it too oh see that now it's interesting see how much pressure it takes to get him to go on the ground compared to riding there we go so there's a couple steps of improvement he's only reactive under saddle because of previous what we would call learned behavior so there's different things that make up the horse that you have here there's innate disposition and that's where we said he's kind of a sensitive horse I'm calling him more of a right brain introvert then there's learn Behavior which we're say he's had some negative learn Behavior maybe or is missing some learned behaviors that he could have had earlier on in his training and then there's um kind of his spirit level like how much is he and I'm saying he's kind of a medium spirited horse and then there's the environment or maybe you could call it the day like the wind and whatever you know it doesn't necessarily mean just the fact that we're here where he lives um it's it's other other factors to that and so he is influenced by the environment quite a bit but where I'm you can't change their innate disposition you can get a horse better in different environments you can't change their spirit level but there's a lot of room to improve their um learned behaviors and that's what we're after uh with these sessions so it's interesting that his learned behavior on the ground is to kind of ignore pressure a little bit and wear it a little bit under saddle it's to react to it so we got to reverse that a little bit he needs to get a little lighter on the ground uh which will show us that he's turning loose to our leadership a little bit more and then we need to get him to um be more relaxed with pressure under saddle yeah again you see him not perfect but you see him putting a little bit of effort into it yeah and this just that's going to be a so three Circle game is going to be a great one you're going to do that pretty much every day side passing you're going to do that pretty much every day so now we're going to approach r Treat with a little bit of speed and distance yesterday he got pretty bothered um when we started adding some distance I like this already it's a little bit better and then his owner also disclosed that he had kind of learned to pull away on the ground a little bit and so that's something that we experienced a little bit yesterday when he got more more upset but we'll just let him do some trotting here at first Wow way better today and I want him to do a little bit of work out there even though it's good because yesterday I kind of learned that getting him to breathe uh was very helpful for him getting him to blow out and relax there's a little bit of Snortin there see his Tail's getting a little Jade head went up the mic probably didn't pick it up but he started uh snorting a little bit super much better so I'm going to speed him up even more again that's it's a little bit of an emotional fitness test so I put a little pressure on and then I slow down see there already stopped real hky jerky and I'd like him just to rate back so we're going to try it again I'm going to speed him up and then I want to see how long it takes for him to rate back not bad at all very good and this kind of fits to me with what I was saying is there's a lot of room for improvement with with him you know he's not just innately uh wanting to be really worried he is but it's still not as high a level as yesterday cuz we have we have two signs we have the jtail really nice really nice we'll take that hey if you guys are enjoying this video and you would like to see more uh detailed training videos and be able to ask me specific questions about your horse consider joining my patreon page it's only $10 a month you're going to have access to all the videos we do a fun monthly challenge that has a giveaway for the winner um at the end and I think you guys will really enjoy it so we'll leave a link in the description below let's get back to the video I'm just asking him to connect with me a little bit here as we walk forward and backward so with the stick I'm trying to show him kind of where my bubble is and I'm just asking him to stay connected with that kind of synchronize with me and this is actually natural to horses because they learn to synchronize with their herd and with their mom when they're babies and so as we kind of show him that we understand that too and that's what we're asking for for him to do under saddle we're asking him to if we're calm you should be calm if we get worried about something okay now you can get worried about something but otherwise stay stay connected with us so there's there's like c three categories of things that you're going to ask him to do on the ground there's emotional fitness exercises like speeding up um on the circle or the flag which we're about to do then there's some mental exercises that we're going to do um and that's like the side passing the hind quarter yield getting into pay attention obstacles are really great for that and then there's some connection exercises that you can do that's where Liberty train becomes part of a good foundation on a horse them connecting to us them following us them being able to turn with us things like this so one of the Liberty exercises that I like to do is I want him to be my shadow so right now he's kind of lagging behind I'm just going to ask him to kind of catch up and I'll kind of Swing the stick and string at him and then I'll shorten up on the lead rope here very good then once he gets caught up to my elbow and I'll just rub on him here and you want to do this on both sides so now I'm going to ask him to change directions and I'm going to do that by going through the middle of the circle that I was just on and I'll present the stick on the other side and this fits along with practicing with him getting comfortable on both eyes so now I need him to catch up here you know what's interesting a lot of people um I hear it all the time oh they're good on this side not as good on that side and it's really true with him like it would definitely be beneficial to try to put two thirs of your time on the right side and one third on the left side I would try to get in the habit of starting on this side and then finishing on this side and go to the the left side and as the middle part like he's he's pretty significantly lopsided on on a lot of things there we go so yeah that'd be a really good one to practice with him quite a bit of and the secret is you can use the rope as much as you need to but don't use it first that's the name of the game with that so we're going to go ahead back to a emotional fitness exercise here with the flag so I'm going to follow what I was just saying there and I'm going to do this on his right side first and last so I'm just going to ask him in my intention to walk a circle but the flag is going to be noisy and the Flag represents any sort of commotion that can come up while you're working with your horse whether it's the wind another horse a vehicle driving by and so the Flag represents some energy and some commotion that's going going on but in my internal feel that I'm offering him which horses are very aware of more so than humans are aware of it too right you know if somebody's in a bad mood when they walk in the house and just they don't have to say anything but the kind of energy and the feel that they have their intention their facial expressions you can infer where what kind of mood they're in right but horses are way more sensitive to this than we are um it's it's in their DNA and their wiring to read the the environment to know if it's safe to go drink right now safe to put their head down and eat and kind of what's going on there and so especially with the predator on the end of the Rope here he's very much paying attention to what my internal intention is and and that comes from our eyes and our belly bone that's why I see a lot of people when they're releasing a horse they'll turn away from them or they'll Crouch down they're just trying to make that intentions as less as little as possible um and you can see the more I give him leadership he actually is wanting to connect with me he's not becoming more afraid of me because I'm I'm doing everything I'm doing has a way for him to win the game um and it's fair I don't start off by just you know I'm not really fast in How I Do It um at least to start with and uh there there's a a way that he can get relief from the pressure when he connects to it and horses like that they like to get along with that so you can see that's a big difference already so we'll take that now we'll go to this side so here my intention is for him to to move so if I want him to trot I'll actually get quieter I'll have a little voice cue there maybe a little tap and I'm just picking what I think would be an achievable level of energy from the flag so he's reading the flag now instead of my intention this is kind of what we had going on yesterday with my legs if I was riding him and I I let my legs lay against his sides he read that as oh you don't want to go and I was like no I my seat and the rest of my energy and tension didn't say go fast yet I just happened to relax my legs on his side I really wasn't even squeezing I said I was but it it was very just much just kind of laying my legs on there or rest I could even say resting my legs on there so you can you got to re this is where you got to be able to read him he is trotting he's not cantering or taking off but he's not relaxed and so we're going to do this until he softens he doesn't have to be perfectly relaxed but he has to make a little change there it is head dropped speed reduced he just made a subtle little shift that's all that's all it took so I'm constantly releasing him on softness and uh they like that and so that's why he he won't see me as the big mean Cowboy that showed up and challenged him a lot he will actually find comfort with me because he realizes every time he gets relaxed I Retreat and so he's going to feel really good about it and it's it's funny because I'll hear owners say oh I bet you're happy to you know they'll look at their horse oh I bet you're happy he's gone or whatever it's like actually I bet the horse would prefer the way I'm doing it because I'm doing it with feel and building in his confidence and trust in me through this communication um but it's not how people think um I'm I'm working with him how he thinks not how people think I'm asking him to tolerate and handle things that we need him to do um but I'm I'm spending more time showing him that I know how he thinks and feels and that is the challenge with horsemanship in general is that all of our Natural Instincts are basically wrong it's like for instance um you know we would like to say well if you're calm your horse will be calm and people think that just that would be innately true and it's not you have to teach them that when you're calm they can be calm cuz innately if a person gets really slow and sneaks around them they might read that as being more suspicious maybe a little creepy acting you know and so what his instincts are and what my instincts are are very different so as a Horseman we have to learn to adjust our instincts to operate and think the way he would uh versus the way what's natural to us and I think that's why a lot of times I feel like I have it's hard for me to sell my idea to people because it's like it it doesn't always make sense logically to how people would naturally think so now I'm going to put him in a little bit of a bind here is what we call it and again this is something that we do with Colts first I'll see if I can just throw this leadrope over him make sure he's okay with this and I'm just going to run it around the saddle horn here and I want him to just work his way out of this bind now if I wanted it to not be a bind if I wanted to be easier I could run it around his hind quarters but I want him to to to feel this pressure and respond cuz I yesterday I felt a little bit like the more I bent his head around the more claustrophobic he felt so I want him to just get exposed to this and and again think through the puzzle and kind of work his way his way out of it so the answer to me is fairly clear the pressure is definitely more on the right side of his nose but what I'm going to say is it's really important that I hold my position so when he moves I maintain my position but I'm not it's not my job to pull so I'll even soften there just a little bit it's h it's up to him to figure out how to get out of this bind and he's got to make kind of a tight turn in order to do that that's where the challenge is so this is a a really good little pre-ride check to do so all he's got to do is follow that feel and turn around and and see me out of the other eye but that's scary to horses and what's also interesting if you do this with a really quiet left brained horse they'll solve that puzzle way quicker and they will turn around slowly and softly took him a little while to figure it out and then he Whirled out of it pretty quick so what you're looking for as you do this is for him to get around there like kind of right away when you present it to him and then you're also looking for him to step through that quietly so there's different uh metrics that you can use to measure the quality of something and so one of those is how quickly did he solve the puzzle and then the second one is how relaxed was he getting getting out of there so he may not spin around softly today but if he kind of finds that answer a little quicker then that tells me there's a little more of a a mental connection to my idea but the ultimate goal would be for to get all of it you know so you see we got quicker in terms of he solved the puzzle quicker but he still was a reaction through it and every time you see a reaction that's when you got to say to yourself okay that's something we got to keep chipping away at until it's a response not a reaction through it um I don't think it's going to get perfect today so we're just going to present it on the other side now and see if this way is harder or not so you can see there he's trying to put me more in two eyes turning into the pressure versus away from it see how raced up he is he's actually leaning the other way it's not funny but it's just like it's it's such a simple yield for a horse that's been ridden for years you know I expect a horse who's never been ridden to do this but um it to me it just shows the holes in his understanding of things you know and that's a big part of what I do is I break things down for the horse CU a horse can be made to do something for years and never really understand it and a lot of times they'll see a horse who's anxious and they think it's because of the pressure and it's not because of the pressure it's because they don't understand the pressure as they under as they grow in their understanding of pressure they get very relaxed with it and sometimes it takes a while this isn't a while yet no it's why you can't wear a watch when you're training horses so that was average time lapse for a medium spirited horse so today what you're seeing in my opinion is almost every exercise that I've done has been a bit challenging for him and I'm I'm a little more dialed in today of exactly the things that we need to be doing with him and so pretty much everything that you're going to see in this video is things that very much should be done with him pretty regularly for the next month basically and also with a horse like him a lot of horses you don't want to have too much repetition or too much consistency because it can um get them kind of dull to it and non-responsive to things with him anything that he still gets a little worried about you can keep practicing it regularly because it'll just get him more relaxed with it so you don't have to be super creative if you find a handful of things that help settle him in as your warm up for set up for a good ride you can you can ride on those things as long as you can um I'm going to go back to a little bit of caner work again check him out there so much better today we'll take it so yesterday he got pretty bothered when I was moving the stirups with him so we're just going to touch on that too but you can tell he's just thinking through things and he's less there's just less significant reactions to things today and uh this is what I had hoped to bring out in him more and more by what we're doing so with him the the line that I'm also balancing is I'm trying to build his emotional Fitness and um expand that but I'm also I also want him to win and be successful and so he has to be relaxed and comfortable by the time you go to ride so what that means is in the middle of the session is when you should do the biggest exposure things and I'm still fig figing out what those are um but you don't want to do those right before you get on right you would like you could ease them into the session a little bit do some the side passing the three some softer things build them into it then you could get to some new things some exposure things that you're going to do for the next three to five days maybe today it's speed it's this rope the turnaround you know and then you go back to some easier things right before you step on him to kind of kind of build that in cuz he needs to get to where he's spending at least 80% of the session in a good frame of mind that's that's that's kind of a general goal in each session I'll add some new things on the ground just to check them out a little bit more and give you some different things but you don't have to do all of them in one session you can kind of just run through a handful I actually though today I didn't really want to do a lot more cuz he was so good you know it's like if if he's being good I have no reason to try to bring like that's the mindset I was trying to get him into so what why why uh do something that's going to snap him out of it you know I'm not saying like don't do anything but like I felt like I did enough to test it and he passed really well so we'll we'll take it because there's a couple things I thought I was going to do today that we never never did because he was just giving me good responses up here now see there when he does that I'll just get a hold of him here and ask him to back up with his head down and so that just interrupts that thought a little bit and that's going to that's going to come up like that's going to happen but you just need to do something to get his mind back on you so that's all it took right there or in in and out of it you know but that's the part that you're never going to just like delete that it's like those things are going to happen but that's minimal compared to running off or blowing up or running sideways like he was doing yesterday hey let me know in the comments what you guys are taking away from this session what out of everything we talked about was the most important for you in your horse so I'm going to bring him over here and I'm just going to kind of make some commotion with my hand here use the rain a bit and I'm just doing that on the opposite side that I want to release him to but see that's a lot different than just coming up here bringing him a step forward dropping his head does that make sense and I might be willing to tolerate it a little more on a horse that was maybe a little Greener at standing at the money block but with all the work that you've done there it's like okay we're going to sign you up and that's what I mean by signing him up I'm not just getting off and and bringing him one step forward I'm making a little bit bigger deal of it than what he did on purpose to hopefully just Advance this a little bit more and then I'd like you to teach him uh lateral flexion I'm not going to spend a ton of time on it but I would definitely work on on the ground asking him to flex laterally yeah he need to get a little better at that so that's just something like every time you get on do a little backup do a little lateral flexion and then separate in throughout the ride he doesn't like it cuz he feels like a little claustrophobic he feels like he's in a bind so see where his nose is I only want him to give a slight amount more than that if I took it more than that he would get pretty bothered and so I don't want to go more than that yet but I want him to get comfortable with that it's interesting he's softer on the right side today but you see his disposition with me on him is a little quieter than what you had yesterday when you first got on him but I'm not going to give him too much room here at first I want to be ride on offense he he's he's going to be a good riding horse because he sees the human as the leader not because he's a super gentle natured quiet horse so so you need to be active of of keeping his mind on you not pulling back on both Reigns and not controlling him but just by giving him some things to do and that's what I mean by riding on offense does that make sense to you and I think before you are riding a little bit on defense well e either way when with your saddle I would just imagine you probably go ahead and pick up a light contact right away we want to do some things that are a little bit more on a loose rain and see right here this he hasn't done one Circle that counts cuz he's got to leave his head and neck in on that Circle just like we did on the ground so I haven't gotten one Circle yet that I like so for me it's not about how many times we do them it's about the quality of the circle but he's letting me put my legs on him stronger today there that's pretty good but that's just that like he's hard to get him to do that well at a walk when there's no action happening and that's what makes me think we got to build to the caner a little bit and not just go right to the caner and then try to try to settle in so my rains are short but they're loose can you see that guess we are going to caner today there was a nice right lead but see I'm giving him a loose rain and that's he's telling me that's what I think you're riding with a little bit too much contact right away he needs to you need to have him short so that you're ready to correct him but you want to be able to get there by lifting and sliding your hand down like this does that make sense because this is going to give him more responsibility to maintain gate like that's kind of the priority of this ride is going to be to utilize relax rain and hind cord yields as recovery strategy so I want to practice those but we might as well go ahead and practice those from a trot you hear that so he did that quicker today that's a nice blowout and he didn't do that on the ground which is interesting so that means he's we set it up right where he's finding relief cuz he's the most relaxed now after blowing out than what we did on the ground so that's a that's a win right there see there he's one trying to walk counter bent so I'm going to call him out on that and that's something you got to be aware of when you feel that his head gets tipped to the outside and I felt my left left leg get full he is pushing his ribs there it's a subtle thing but if you're at home riding a horse that is a little sensitive a little spooky I don't have to wait for him to Spook or do something that I don't want um you can that counterbend that they pick up is the step before what happens happens you know what I mean so I end up not experiencing a lot of those things because I ride on a loose rain and they get they're control makes the human feel better and makes them feel worse so I end up not a lot a lot of times getting the same negative reactions that other people do uh just because of the the room that I'm giving him and I'm relaxed I'm comfortable up here so if you're not feeling it that day for whatever reason don't don't you're not going to fool him you might fool me or somebody else but don't fake it till you make it if you're feeling good about it go for it if you're not feeling good about it or or even if you're in the middle of the ride and you're not feeling it go ahead and step off I wouldn't put him away i' I'd do a little work on the ground or something um but don't ever feel like you have to ride through it that's old wife's tale of like oh you get bucked off get right back on it's like let's figure out why they did that and let's fix that on the ground as best we can does that make sense way less responsive to legs today or reactive to legs today my legs are on him as much as they were yesterday and he's staying chill so now there you see that big turn he did so I'm going to do a little exercise that I call riding guide now if he really speeds up that then I'll bend him down yeah it feels like a rodeo horse but you've been kind of instead of infor reinforcing a better Foundation you've been covering it up a little bit and I really believe there's a lot of room for improvement on this horse which makes me very happy very excited because it's more what he doesn't know that's getting in his way you know what I mean so when he caners off or goes that fast I'm not just going to bend him down I'm going to do the Hine qu yield there and then we'll go on again what I'm trying to show you though is an exercise called riding guide where if he if I give him a loose rain he kind of just goes all over the place and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn the opposite way of whatever way he's trying to go CU he needs to settle in So today we're just kind of letting it hang out there a little bit more and as it takes more times I'm going to be a little stronger on the rain not faster but stronger on the feel when I ask him to disengage his hind quarters so that he starts getting the memo of we're not going to be Off to the Races boy it's really tempting to L him around cuz that feels really good but he can't L until he can maintain a trot and imagine now if you give him a loose rain he thinks go is just go faster faster faster and now you're riding with contact asking him to caner that's a recipe for him bucking so to me that explains why you would get a buck too cuz as a rider you'd want to feel like oh I'm going to pick up contact to caner but you're if you're riding the brake pedal while the gas pedal stuck to the floor any feel any feel there is is going to cause up instead of out because you're you're taking and he's sensitive so you're taking away I'm not taking away his ability to go forward I'm making it uncomfortable once he does go forward so any little like I can make him ride around and make him look a lot better by just picking up a light contact but I'm I'm telling you he's got to learn to be responsible for trotting before you can caner him that's the our homework now there's there's three exercises if he commits to Breaking Gates he canners we're going to do a h qu yield if he speeds up at the Trot like fairly fast or gets em or even just gets emotional we're going to do relax rain but otherwise if he's maintaining Trot we're going to do ride and guide and that means we're going to do a 90° turn for one of two reasons if I if I'm give him a loose rain and he takes off or takes over and turns a hard right or a hard left I'm going to turn him the opposite way if he speeds up a little bit at the Trot I'm going to go ahead and turn the other way too so either case he's going to run into a little bit of pressure for taking basically taking over taking over leads to taking off okay so again we got a loose rain yes he cantered but I was trying to catch him I just wasn't quick enough now he's turning left and I didn't say turn left so we're going to turn right so this is riding guide and you're trying to ride squares and I'm using the turn to rate his speed neck rain direct rain yes he's not ready to turn off a leg yet I'd love to get to that point that's a lot better if I was at home training him I wouldn't caner him for like a month I would get this Trot where I could cruise around and ride him off my leg on a loose rain and get his like where he just cruises around on a loose rain at a trot very easily guided all those things but every time he turns when I didn't say turn see there's that counter Bend there you got worried so instead of me just turning him there we're going to recover so that's that little feel that you got to be aware of and go oh I don't need to turn there I need to recover and ask him to get comfortable again because again if I didn't catch those little moments it would escalate it would get bracer and bracer and bracer it's not just going to resolve itself now I should have yielded the hind quarters there but I wasn't really quick enough and and I'm trying to just so in other words I don't I don't fix every little tiny thing you know if he takes off with a little more a little more intensity then I might do something about it now another thing you can do once you get them trotten out kind of about where he is today you can play with a little exercise where you lift this inside rain and teach him that this means head down oh you already did maybe there you go now there he offered to walk and stop on his own we'll pet him I didn't say walk or stop but that's a good that's that is the exact opposite thing so again human instincts tell you that's not what I said keep going no he just did what we're looking for of just raiding himself controlling his own emotions why not give him a little chance there to go hey that was a good idea it's not quite what I asked yet but hey that's a good I thanks for offering that we call that scan and capture you scan the moment the situation and you capture the good things that you're wanting more of instead of saying no I said Trot you should be trotting right now cuz human nature says if I didn't if Simon didn't say you shouldn't do it right so I actually think that might be a good spot to quit him on cuz he had a really good thought there he got really settled and comfortable and um we can keep keep going on it when you these this is one of those moments where you can ask it's like we could stop here or we could keep going and back in the day I was all like keep going and I've kind of learned hey when they're being really good and putting effort into your idea if I quit him here he's have to be even better tomorrow just like yesterday you could watch what I yesterday say well did really get that much done he didn't caner him I hear this from husbands all the time well he didn't caner you know it's like no but I put in the mindset I'm I'm getting to his mind and getting him comfortable and when you do that you get more and more and more of what you want you start getting offered quality and offered responses um and so yeah I think we're going to quit him there and um that's a good good spot for him but yeah he doesn't want to be a rodeo Bron he wants to be a good boy he's just got a lot of holes in his understanding but and to be honest he's trying to be right like he's he's trying to do what I I the whole time even when he was being bad doing things I didn't want he was trying to do what he thought I wanted and that's what I'm I kind of feel for him a little bit because he just had uh his training was just he was very unsure of what was going on and so he was just kind of making stuff up that he thought was right um but he he does want to be a good boy so that's the good news some horses some horses want to be a prey animal you know what I mean they're not like real sure on they're they're not uh picking up what we're putting down but he's he wants to be a good boy he wants to try hard um and uh yeah we just had to give him the opportunity [Music]

Channel: Ryan Rose

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Length: 48min 41sec (2921 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 16 2024