Problem horse: Bucking Part- 3 of 3

of that your horse doesn't have to do blow up and buck before you can realize actually there's some things that we could do to make them be a little safer or it's a little a little more low risk a little more high reward i i open up every clinic i do with a line that i learned from my friend richard and the line is there's nothing safe about what we're about to do and what i mean is there's nothing safe about riding horses hey guys uh we're about to jump into part three of the video series here with jasper and i just want to say a big thank you uh for to his owner for being willing to let me share the story of this with you guys um i think this is a really important one because if you know people that have horses you probably know somebody that's been hurt with a horse um horses can be dangerous and so it's really important that we read them well and that we set things up for success on the ground before just climbing on and seeing what happens so watch this video to the end i think you'll be glad that you did uh thanks for watching let's go ahead and jump into the video yeah so it's been it's been his go-to go-to response when he feels claustrophobic yeah and even like this like saddling him shouldn't create that brace he shouldn't change his expression so that's better getting better but you just don't want your equipment to be a thing at all you know [Music] so every time he does that with his head what i would do is ask him to just lower it and just go hey release down here you know obviously there's gonna be plenty of times where it's not but i would just be constantly reminding him of this because down here is a different mindset than up here up here he's in an alert braced mindset and he just licked and chewed which means just bringing out the saddle caused him to change states of bothered and so imagine if we just carried on just got on and wrote him when he had you know now he switched back right there when he looked and chewed and that was caused from doing this if i hadn't lowered his head he might not have switched states yeah he's tolerated deer mm-hmm yeah i i think it had it was connected to the human in the saddle the human in the cinches and it was like borderline enough good enough to be safe to ride the rest of the time but it was borderline it wasn't like solid and i think you kind of knew that um and then just that that this whole the you know you and the brace right now today is the whole reason why i emphasize this to people and why i have a youtube channel why i do this because people need to be aware that your horse doesn't have to do blow up and buck before you can realize actually there's some things that we could do to make them be a little safer or it's a little a little more low risk a little more high reward i i open up every clinic i do with a line that i learned from my friend richard and the line is there's nothing safe about what we're about to do and what is there's nothing safe about riding horses and so we can mitigate that a little bit by really good preparation really really good preparation because baseline it's not safe to ride any of them they're they're they're big and they're fast and um and so we gotta we gotta be aware cognizant of that and do as many things as we can to to help it be as safe as possible for doing a dangerous thing you know no different than like if you're a motorcycle rider well you could be a motorcycle rider with shorts on and a t-shirt and no helmet or you could be a motorcycle rider in that that rides any time of day any place anywhere or you could be a motorcycle rider that only rides when there's good conditions with a helmet on with like a kevlar or whatever stuff that they wear so that if they did have to lay the bike down they're not they're going to walk away from it like there's very different you know it's a dangerous thing to do for any of them but there is ways to make it safer you know not driving when it's nighttime and deer and there so it's just managing that and that's what we have to do with horses is set things up for success as much as possible and so that's what i was trying to do with him today with all that preparation have a plan be ready to change plans that's my policy [Music] because it's not really about riding it's really about getting him to relax and turn loose um the tolerances are the margins are just too slim for him to decide to buck all you got to do is bring my energy up and ask him to canter and then he he's out you know what i mean like i want him to be able tolerate a little bit more than that because i'm the same person sitting on his back if i bring my life up and ask him to move move out and i i don't like that he has such a abrasion to cantering cantering is a scary thing for him and that's why he pulls away every time i ask him instead of just going forward that needs to be a little easier response for him to give and again i'm releasing him on forward this is a better answer than him running sideways does that make sense move forward there i like that i collect to him he didn't think away he just kind of trotted out a little bit more so that's like a little test to follow the feel so he followed the field but then what did he do when i was behind him whoa oh he's behind me you know what i mean no no there's a lot of holes in his foundation and he it's like that was better but he was still worried you know what i mean that feeling of being claustrophobic is where the bucking lives that is the same thing when i put the rope between his legs when i put the when i'm putting the rope around here when i approached him quickly all those things caused him to feel claustrophobic which is what leads to bucking so it's it's the box of him feeling claustrophobic that ultimately is what has to change also notice he hasn't blown out a single time no and and he he would if we did this every day for a week or two he would he would be blowing out and we would learn okay this this and this is the recipe to get him to blow out and get the most relaxed we can get him yep wow [Music] and see i'm not going to step on a horse that can't just have their head down and relaxed because that's all feedback it's all it's all telling you stuff you know don't worry i'm a professional professional what but see i'm i'm i'm not trying to ride him i'm trying to release him to being ridden there's a difference and the only way it's a release to being ridden is if he feels the best when i'm on him and right now he's saying i'm scared of you getting on me so there is an element of accepting the human that's not there that we're missing and i didn't realize that at first but we're learning that as we go here but you see how he changes states just from the human thinking about mounting him that's these are all the the these are all his way of telling us i'm not okay with this oh my gosh he's trying he's trying if he wasn't trying he wouldn't lower his head right away when i asked but the fact remains that he's been mounted probably with his head up in the air pretty much every time [Music] see there he took a breath when i walked towards him he took a breath and relaxed that's what we're going for so this technique is just just a way of approaching and retreating i'm approaching now i just hope people watching this can see this is the stuff i look for that tells me yes we're green lights we're good to go or yellow light and this is a big old bright yellow it's not a red light it's big old bright yellow one there it gets there's bigger lights than this that are red and we're not red but we're yellow and it needs to be green it needs to be green in order to be safe and so i'm just but i'm just chipping away at all the situations and what i'm doing here i think is pretty safe because i feel like i have a good enough idea of him that i could stop or dismount or something like it's not going to trigger it any worse but you could do all that groundwork in the world and you're still going to do that he's still going to do this when you mount him because he's always done it it's a habit at this point you know if i would have been the one to colt start him we would have taught them this at the very very beginning and he would have accepted the rider right from the get-go or we wouldn't have continued um which means we would have got we would have done it but when you kind of just get rides done on him and he's kind of just going through the motions but he's not really fully accepting it then you get now see how his ears went forward there they're not like fixed back on me where he's really bothered it's just if this is a little bit more of a habit for him does that make sense to just be embraced like he just associates saddling and mounting with brace so these are all the things that he needs fixed the riding will probably would probably actually go fairly well once these things were fixed which is kind of good news because if you can't find any holes on the ground all you're left with is go ahead and saddle up mount up you know [Music] ah and proof that it's just right under the surface there but the correct response by me for him getting tight is not rubbing him it's putting pressure on him going you can be tight but more pressure comes on when you're tight pressure goes away when you relax you know but the the bad news is when when you came off of him it scared him too so there's going to be a little residual which is why i'm trying to keep going a little further i'd like to try to leave him in a little better spot but i'm having a hard time there's some work to do here you know there's more than a one day fix one hour fix here it'll get there it's it's very it's doable but it's that also with more training it doesn't change his disposition it just helps him create new patterns and better habits and stuff like that um so see now he's a little stuck yep so i think that's where we're gonna have to kind of quit it today i wanted to get a little further but time wise we're kind of out of time and the goal today was more about learning on evaluating and understanding where he's at and i feel like i have a pretty good idea now of where he's at um like i i would know exactly what i'm going to work on tomorrow you know what i mean but yeah there is plenty plenty to work on there but i i hope for you guys you could take away seeing a reading a horse on another level reading them a little better and seeing um what mindsets how it can escalate and how it can lead to um lead to bucking lead to those things without a big release now see now would actually be a good time to do this see why he's having that big release right there but you can see how much just getting on him triggers that but you can see he he's still like when the rider goes to mountain oh they're going to mount me you know it pulled like it pulled him out of that relaxation mindset and put him back into like defensive and now he's back to like okay you know and the question i guess the ultimate question i have is you know i'm you don't have to include this or whatever but i guess you know i'm 54 years old and i you know i can see that he needs work you know i'm okay with saying that i've made a mistake and that you know that maybe he needs to be with somebody that can work with him it just scared me yeah so i think i i really really appreciate your candidness and i appreciate how open and honest you're being about everything because this is one of those real and difficult decisions and conversations to have and difficult decisions for you to make i've done this a lot i've been doing this a long time with a lot of people a lot of horses and i know he can be better than he is i know there's some work that we can do that would help him i think you're always going to have an underlying fear of him and i think you would be better off finding the right person for him that can put the work in i think he's a very nice horse but i think he's an overly sensitive reactive horse for somebody that wants to ride a couple times a week that's not a trainer that's not a professional um you know i i he just needs he needs just that much work you know if i thought we could get over this in a month or so i'd be like well let's look at dates for training and let's figure this out i think it would take a while like at best like three to six months to to really get him where i would even trust you riding him here and i think if you took him home and you let him sit for a little while i think you'd have your hands full again um and i think he's just a very sensitive horse that really requires somebody to be on top of it um and so and i but i think the other problem is you're gonna get on him with this like this happened because you've had a traumatic experience with him now and um that doesn't mean you're a wimp or you're you're scared rider or anything and no it means you had a bad experience like any of us would have that same response that's a natural human response to things but i've seen people try to toughen up about it and they're like nope i'm going to keep this horse and never sell a horse once you bought them and this and that i'm not saying just ship them off to the next person whoever yeah we'll make i'll help you we'll make a plan we'll we'll figure this out but for those of you watching i just want you to realize that you it's not you don't on one hand i don't like seeing people just the horse is the wrong horse for me move on to get on i'm not i'm not a fan of that either but when you once you've had a traumatic event with a horse we've learned and acknowledged he's a little too much horse for what you're looking for and he's not your dream horse right now and i just feel like there's another horse out there that would be your dream horse and this horse might be a dream horse to somebody else that wants to ride five days a week and we can help this horse get through some of those tight spots and you know it'll be a good deal so um i can be objective and logical about that and a lot of people are not going to like what i'm saying there's a lot of people that just believe you stick with the horse no matter what to the end and i see a lot of people that are miserable for a really long time because they have the wrong horse or they're scared for a really long time because horses naturally synchronize with our energy and so if you get on him and you have this fear even if you're faking it and be like i'm not afraid i'm gonna tough enough and i'm just gonna get on and just go you're gonna have this underlying fear you can't trick him you could trick me you could trick everybody watching but you can't trick him he's gonna feel that energy when you get on and i've just seen it before where people decided to keep a horse and work stick with it and if i thought that was the appropriate answer i would be talking you into let's make a game plan let's do this this and this and we'll here we go i think he's innately a very sensitive horse a little too sensitive for for you and what you want to do um i i think you did great to get along with him as long as you did honestly i like i'm impressed that you could ride that line like you could probably get along with a lot of horses um which is and um and so i'm gonna put you in touch and i actually think this horse should be a great horse for him and it's kind of a perfect perfect opportunity so um so you guys can stay tuned we'll see more of jasper hopefully and uh um yeah i i actually know of a guy who's looking for horses just like him right now so i think it i think it'd be a great match so well i'll give you the information about that um but thank you so much i hope everybody at home watching appreciates um jennifer's caddiness about this a lot of people aren't willing to share their stories and how things go but um unfortunately this this happens all too often um when we're not reading the horses correctly and when there's um you know some some holes in there that are under underneath the surface that we gotta gotta get into so thank you guys for tuning in and watching hope you enjoyed the video we'll see you guys on the next one

Channel: Ryan Rose

Views: 201,765

Keywords: Jasper, Bucking, Horse training, Ryan rose

Id: EzOViW3dCMU

Length: 19min 29sec (1169 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 21 2021