I hope you’ll read “Training: The Human, The Horse already knows how to be a Horse” As I believe this will help this page make more sense.
So, what is the secret to Training that new Horse you have? Or the one that you’ve let “sour”? Boy, I’m sitting here thinking about all the money I’m not going to make inventing my own brand of carrot stick (mine would be Blue) and all the DVDs and books I’m not going to get to sell. Oh well, “It’s All About The Horse,” not my wallet. Are you ready for this? Are you ready to know the secret my Cherokee Grandfather passed down to me?
OCCHAM’S RAZOR!
I’m not saying my Grandfather knew who Mr. Occham was or what he is famous for penning, but he proposed to me the almost exact same theory about life, especially when dealing with Horses. Mr. Occham (actually a 14th century Franciscan Friar in England) said ** “Simple explanations are, all things being equal, are generally better explanations than complex ones.”
My Grandfather’s favorite saying to me about Horses was “Keep it simple”.
Folks, when you’re working with a Horse, Keep it Simple. Don’t get so wrapped up in the Thousand Dollar Clinics that complicate a simple solution. As a rule if you “do something” 3 times the exact same way, you’re training your Horse.
Do you tack up your Horse in the same place every time? Do you dismount at the same place at the barn every time? Have you ever noticed you Horse is harder to lead to the “tack spot” than anywhere else? Or that when riding getting him to the dismount spot is the easiest thing to do? If you do have these “special places” then I’d almost guarantee you have seen the effects of this TRAINING that you have done unknowingly. See I told you Training is SIMPLE.
Now all ya have to do is remember it’s not difficult to train if you’ll just relax and just do what is simple and energy economical for the Horse !
** Not a direct Occham quote, but this gives the general idea of what he proposed
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