Horse Training Tips & Task Accomplishment

As much as the clichés are laughed at, there is usually an inkling of truth that they are based on.

The horse's behavior and responses often reflect whatever the human's current mental, emotional, and physical state is.

If the person is fixated on task accomplishment without being mentally present in the real-time horse interactions, they will miss the equine's feedback creating a lack of, or late, critical, after-the-fact communication.

This can lead to "teaching" defensiveness in the horse and anticipation in the human. This combination leads to tension in both beings.

When equine enthusiasts learn to loosen their grip on their goal, and focus on refining the "segments"- or initial aspects in the horse's education needed for clear, specific Conversations, accomplishing the task occurs with more Quality, less chaos, and increases both the equine and person's confidence.

This allows for the emotional fulfillment so many horse enthusiasts are seeking as they spend time with their horses.

Have you ever unintentionally hurried your horse through something? In attempts to accomplish a task or a goal, and then reach a point of seeing increasingly chaotic, resistant responses- to where you realize you had to backtrack and revisit the holes in the communication or the horses education?

If more people understood that the simple basics of things like having a mentally directable horse, being able to independently influence different body parts to move separately while the horse remains balanced, being able to influence a variety of energy levels in the horse's movement, not creating fearful responses to the human's communication, before presenting the scenario or task, they would then have the "tools" to help the horse succeed.

The video posted is a young four-year-old learning about a curtain.This helps give an example of what "uneventful task accomplishment" can look like when a foundation is previously established.