I Made a BIG MISTAKE……Things Got Dangerous

so one of the things you guys hear me say a lot is experience is what you get after the mistake and in this video I got some experience and I'm very fortunate that I ended up not getting seriously injured every fall in Texas I do what's called a horse development camp where I people bring their horses I ride them for five days and then the owners do a two-day clinic with them and one of the horses that got brought to this Camp had a severe bucking issue with accepting the saddle so this is a video that I was showing what I would do to prepare this horse and try to release him to being saddled knowing he has a very strong bucking habit when he's first settled but unfortunately I made some miscalculations and this is how it went so this this horse has has not been worked in this area before and I was told that he gets nervous in new environments and so the first thing I'm going to do is just kind of walk around him a little bit and see if I can't get him to be connected with me see right there he's kind of looking away so just add a little pressure and so with horses that get easily troubled and are pretty sensitive one of the first things that I like to do is just kind of connect with them now another thing with a horse that's kind of tight and sensitive like Kim that I'm going to be very mindful of is releasing him when his movement is soft do you see right there his movement's kind of soft that's where you'd want to release not when he's Herky jerky so whenever you see his movements get Herky jerky I'm going to try to keep going with what I'm doing until they're soft and this is just a critical thing for working with the horse's mind and their emotions more than their body and their feet you know a lot of times we release when the feet do what we want but that next level of training and next level of understanding is is are the feet moving but also are they moving in a way that indicates the horse's mind is relaxed and and confident at that time or comfortable is a good good word to say it so you can see how he's kind of kind of flinchy and kind of spooky and what a horse like this would tend to want to get you to do is be really quiet around them and there are times that you do need to get quiet around him but he needs to get a little bit exposed to more of the the life up and kind of some energy and so what you really don't want to do is get to where you're sneaking around a horse like this this would that would be a big mistake is to where you're too quiet and then you end up getting on him and he's underexposed and that's where they can be uh they can be pretty tight real quick and interrupt this video to let you guys know if you would like to see more detailed training videos including the ability to ask me questions about your horse or send me videos for coaching you can do that on my patreon page right now it's only ten dollars a month but it's going to be going up to 20 a month in January so get on there now while you can and that way you're locked in at the 10 price can't wait to see you guys there now one of my favorite exercises to do with a horse that tends to be a little bit tight is side passing and I'd like to side pass them until they relax the reason so that when I relax I mean they lower their head the reason I like side passing that like this so much is because a horse has to be a lot more conscientious of how he's uh traveling and how he's moving his feet in order to to do this when a horse is on a circle they can kind of run around and move forward relatively easily without thinking about it too much but in order to side pass or go over obstacles or things like that they got to be a little bit more conscientious of what their feet are doing and so I'm not going to release him here until his feet get synchronized and he lowers his head that's what he has to do to win this game there that's always going to get me to quit doing what I'm doing then you see he came out of it right away and kind of brought his head up and was Bracy and so I'm immediately going to go into side passing the next Direction so I'm going to add more pressure with the stick while his head is up in the air so if he wants me to be quiet he's got to be calm if he wants me to be noisy then he's got to get Bracy it's critical for a horse like this because again what what they talk us into is they get nervous and then we get quiet and then they stay very nervous another interesting thing about horsemanship that I'll take this opportunity to share with you guys you know a lot of times if we want to see their head lower we'll find a way to kind of make them put their head down you know we'll use the halter or uh you know for riding sometimes people use a Martingale or a tie down and they'll make the horse keep their head down but you don't have to to go that route you could go another route which says I'm not going to make you put your head down I'm going to make it uncomfortable for you to have your head up and see this is where psychology comes into play because if he has his head up and I make that thought uncomfortable I can then release him to having his head down versus if I just put his head down by pulling on him I'm making head down the part where there's pressure right um but instead if his head is up in the air which is actually being pretty good right now so I don't want to do it but basically what I can do is I can tap him lightly until his head goes down and then I can release when his head goes down there and we actually she she worked with this horse in a clinic that I did last spring and this is one of the things that I asked her to teach him so you can see kind of is understanding that he's doing really well today so um the next thing I'm going to do and again it's not a question of does this horse have trouble with the saddle or not I know that when he first gets saddled up he goes to bucking and so I'm not going to just saddle him up and see what happens I'm going to find a way to release him to that so I'm going to do a couple of uh things I think what I'm going to do first is I'm going to let him counter a little bit out here and the reason I want to canter him is hey it's a little bit of hard work a little bit of pressure but B it's going to get him to kind of breathe through his lungs and that might give us a chance to get him to go and kind of blow out and decompress there a lot of horses can kind of hold tension through their rib cage and it's just like humans you know by getting us to exercise it's a great way to kind of relieve some stress and tension is through movement and so we want them to breathe I don't I'm not trying to tire him out like I don't know how long it would take to Tire him out but that's not my goal here my goal is just to get him breathing and kind of move in his body which means I got to get out of a walk here and ask him to move his feet a little bit and uh so you can see he kind of thinks about uh moving out there kind of quick so I'm going to restart that I want him to do everything that he does thoughtfully I don't want any reactions to things I'm gonna drift him out there see how that was a lot softer everything matters with this horse so you can see right now he's fast he wants to go quickly his head is up in the air so we're just going to let him work at this a little bit so he already blew out there which is a good sign his gate has already improved it's a little softer a little slower just like to see that head drop a little bit but this horse has been standing in a stall getting a lot of good feed and there's nothing wrong with the horse getting a little exercise but what you don't want to do is just use exercise to try to tie your horse out without using any psychology because what's going to happen is that horse is going to get more and more fit and they'll they'll start to take longer and longer but there's nothing wrong with me letting him move his feet a little bit and get just a little bit of that fresh energy off of him from having just come out of his stall but if you've ever seen somebody try to just Tire a horse out by lunging them for hours you know that that's not not a great strategy so I'm probably going to do this I don't know 10 minutes 15 minutes I like that it's a little softer already try to bring him in from there now he's got his head up in the air so now I'm going to try that same idea of asking him to lower his head as I push him around here so I'm going to put a feel on the rope and I'm going to tap him here and you can see it's a lot harder for him to to give me that answer now that we got his life up here so the answer to get me to stop putting pressure on him is to slow down and drop his head that's what he has to do to win this game so again you can see how Herky jerky he is he's in a he's in a fast Speedy mindset but he has to learn to challenge his own emotions there and work through it okay and I'm not asking him to move his feet right now I'm actually asking him to lower his head he just doesn't doesn't know that when it's interesting is just a few minutes ago he demonstrated that he understood this but he didn't have enough depth of it to be able to do it under a little bit of adversity like cannering first okay now he's thinking heads coming down so I'll just go ahead and release him there he's licking and chewing and the point is I am not interested in having him spend a long time being in that right-brained worried state of mind and so before countering him some more I decided to go ahead and try to interrupt this thought a little bit you can see if I bring the stick up here very good he thought about lowering his head yeah so you can kind of see that that's coming back in we'll go ahead and try that again you can say it's a much different response now I like that just got them in a good frame of mind before letting him out there boy that's a lot better much better very good you can see how much softer it was when I brought him in there we'll just let them come in and hang out I'd love to see him start to lower his head on his own here he's looking away there so I'm gonna put a little pressure on him to get him refocused every little thing matters okay so I'm not just going to let him bring him in here and let him look away from me I want the credit for the relief so I'm going to add this little tap here and again because he's so Goosey around his hindquarters and his rib cage that's part of the reason I'm adding a little pressure there is I want him to start getting comfortable accepting that pressure and now could also be a good time to work on things touching him around here right and again he hasn't been real jumpy today but we know from previous experience with him that he's tends to be very very Goosey with that so just to be thorough I'm going to go ahead and go the other way with him this type of horse you'd rather air on the side of doing it a few more times a few extra times and be sure you're sure than to go he did it once right okay now quit him some horses you're better off quitting them as soon as they get the answer right other horses you're better off um sticking with things a little longer and so he's one of those horses that because he's so right-brained letting him settle into a pattern letting him settle into the relaxation of it will actually cause it to feel better and better to him and then he'll be more inclined to give us that tomorrow good love how soft that got nice soft downward transition very happy with that the way he's feeling now I'm feeling pretty optimistic about saddling him so I'm just going to go ahead and put that rope on his foot and see if we can't teach him to stop and pick up a front foot with it and then we might be ready to Saddle Up also for anybody that's thinking well the reason he's bucking is he's in pain the owner of this horse is actually a vet veterinarian he's been checked out every single way you can check a horse out and so those of you that are already thinking or maybe already dropped into the comments and said oh he's probably back sores probably this or that and that's why he's bucking with a saddle you would be wrong horses can develop a behavioral issue but he just gets kind of nervous in general and you don't have to spend very much time around this horse just to kind of see that he he can get nervous about things so if he gets to being bothered with the saddle on I'm just going to put a feel on this rope until he picks up a front foot and again uh for those of you that don't you know don't know me or don't follow this channel well but um we have a lot of information about how the horse's psychology works and this and that and if he's in a pattern of doing something over and over again we have to find a way to cause that to be relief and let him get comfortable there we can't just keep practicing letting him buck and work through it and expect him to be different we have to have a good start a good middle and a good end okay so again I stopped him now he's got to pick that foot up get relief very good so you got a little bothered by that gonna wait for him to work through this he's uncomfortable right now there he kind of looked over ears went forward so we'll give him relief good boy now let's let them see if he'll look and chew decompress from that so that one startled him a little bit we're just walking the same thing but just for whatever reason he wasn't thinking about it so now we're giving a little soak time as soon as he felt me put a feel on that rope he thought about stopping so that's a good indicator that he understands he understands this idea so we'll go ahead and throw saddle on him though so just just snugging that up you don't want to make it too tight you can kind of make any horse Buck if you cut them in half and I just want this back cinch here to be to be snug and then um he's known for pulling away when he's first saddled up and so I'm gonna go ahead and put a snaffle on him as a hopefully a tool to prevent him from getting uh too big I'm pretty happy with that let me go ahead and take this foot rope off of him and we'll uh give him a chance to move his feet a little bit more so with this exercise I'm just practicing uh putting him in different positions uh changing directions because he anytime something changes he gets pretty bothered and so I'm just kind of seeing what he can do and what he can handle you know it's like you gotta you gotta kind of stir the pot a little bit otherwise things start burning at the bottom you know if I if I just move them around really slow and soft he'll be a little too underexposed for me to ride I just want him to get a little flowier through these a little more fluidity he's his everything's still just a little bit choppy and so by just letting him move around in a circle it's pretty easy for a horse to stay Bracy but he's having to think a little bit more by me doing more frequent changes of Direction well let's go ahead and see if we can't get it right on him [Applause] [Music] and again he hasn't been real jumpy today [Applause] the way he's feeling now I'm feeling pretty optimistic about saddling him it's doing really well today and again it's not a question of it does this horse have trouble with the saddle or not [Music] I got myself a little pickle now if I were to get off him I just taught him to get a little bothered [Music] [Music] foreign so this was the moment that I knew things weren't working out exactly as I planned now I want you to understand two things about this number one is I wasn't getting on him to for the camera or out of ego I really thought this horse was fully ready to ride the other thing is there's nothing safe about riding horses especially ones that are known to be bucking with the saddle on and are still green and it's a calculated risk that we take when we sign up for this job and that is part of part of the business that I'm in I understand those risks and this is why I put so much value and stock into groundwork building a connection with the horse and being able to read the horse as best we can but at the end of the day we're making educated guesses onto where this horse is so this next clip that I'm going to show you is a different day with a better setup so as you can see from this video I obviously made some mistakes in my reading the horse thinking he was more okay to ride than he was and luckily I didn't get hurt hopefully I didn't teach him anything too bad in that ride um and in this video you can see that the horse is accepting the rider a lot better he's much more settled and comfortable and so with a different game plan a different setup it could go a lot smoother now the thing you also got to appreciate is there's a scale of horses you know not all horses are the same they're like snowflakes they all look the same but they're all different and so horses that are generally considered um you know kids horses or beginner's horses are typically ones that are on the opposite side of the scale as this horse where they're more gentle and they're more woe than go they're just less easily bothered that sort of thing so this horse has he is writable but he has very very thin margins of something you know it's very sensitive and it doesn't take much to to get him bothered and so whoever continues riding this horse they have to know that going into it and it's about really uh crossing your teeth and Dot in your eyes and really setting this horse up for Success so as you can see this horse can be erode successfully and get comfortable with the the saddle and the rider the thing is though the the margins are always going to be thin with this horse it's going to be easy to get the source troubled and make a mistake and so it's going to be critical that the rider can read the horse well on the ground and know that he's he's in a good place uh for accepting the saddle and being ridden and the other thing is I want you to realize that we all make mistakes horse training is hard and even though I have a lot of experience and I've been doing this for years I still make mistakes everybody does and so the the thing is we we have to go about this in a way that's safe where we don't get hurt but also in a way that we are constantly asking ourselves how could I be different for my horse how could I have done a better job in that situation to set the horse up for success and that was my takeaway from this is it's an it's another learning opportunity for me to grow in my own horsemanship journey and continue to improve [Music]

Channel: Ryan Rose

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Length: 18min 53sec (1133 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 03 2022