Posts Tagged ‘training’
Episode 23: Your Horse Has Questions
Subscribe and never miss an episode! (I listen in the barn and when I’m out driving) Subscribe For Free! I’m explaining something that was a game-changer for me and my horse. When I share this topic with people at clinics, I see an instant change in them and their horse. Did you know that your…
Read MoreHow do you teach a square halt for dressage or western dressage?
“Your horse should stop and stand square during the halt.” “How?” Was the first question that popped out of my mouth. The first time I posed this question, I happened to be talking with a college student who had just told me my goal was to stop with my horse standing square. I could see…
Read MoreEpisode 20: The Hierarchy of the Riders Aids as the Horse Advances
Riders will need to use different riding aids differently as a horse progresses through the different grade levels. In episode 6, I compared the horses progression to the progression of kindergarten, grade school, high school, and college. As the horse and rider progresses, the use of different aids is layered on. We always start with…
Read MoreEpisode 11: Season One Q & A: Evaluating Horse, Confidence & Desire, Limiting Beliefs
In his episode, I am going to cover evaluating a new horse, overcoming loss of confidence and desire, and how to overcome the limiting belief that horses hate being ridden. Subscribe and never miss an episode! (I listen in the barn and when I’m out driving) Subscribe For Free! Show Notes [01:13] Question one is…
Read MoreDealing with stallions that bite; habits and hormones
“Hi Stacy, again a very interesting podcast. I love how you break it down into parts. This makes is much easier to understand. I have a 4-year-old stallion in training, who was really disrespectful when I first started. Very pushy, using his shoulders to run right through me, not respecting my space at all. The…
Read MoreHorse training requires long term thinking on bad days.
My body hurts. I’m moving slow. I’m thinking slower. My time zone change experiment three weeks ago, where I slowly changed my body clock to match Australia, worked. I arrived in Australia in pretty good shape. Coming home I went cold turkey. I did nothing to switch my body back…and now I feel it. My…
Read MoreWhy riders often experience fear, frustration, confusion with their horse.
Mismatch:(noun) a failure to correspond or match. a discrepancy. Mismatched: (verb) match (people or things) unsuitably or incorrectly In sports, there is something called a mismatch. I’m not a sports person but my husband is. My understanding of a mismatch is that when teams are preparing to play each other they study the strengths and…
Read MoreDoes your horse find you predictable AND interesting?
When we train, we train using patterns. Patterns of behavior that create habits. Lead to the saddling area. Ground-tie. Brush. Saddle. Mount. Warm up. Work period. Rest period. Work period. On the surface it may look to an outside observer that we are teaching the horse to perform a pattern, like a trick, however, we…
Read MoreBuilding Confidence during Weaning
“How do you try to keep your young horses confident? I see you wean with a buddy but at what time in their lives do they learn to be alone? Tips for preventing buddy sour, insecure horses.”-Margie Great phrasing of this question! It is true that while I am going through the weaning process I…
Read MoreHorses Training: understanding the end goal improves the process
I love starting colts. They tend to be open minded like small children who are eager to learn and they don’t have preconceived ideas about what is wanted from them. To make things even more exciting the progress is easy to measure; one day they have never been saddled, the next day they have…never been…
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