BlackRoan22 you’re right, praising by rubbing a bit between the eyes or shoulder. In my experience body language is really important. If you are calm, proud, respectful and self aware your horse will see, feel and act like that. I only call them by their name to get their attention, not for another command. And even this is not always necessary, they pay attention the moment they see me. Horses are incredible :-)

Nancy Nunke hello Nancy, I’m not sure if I understand your comment but honestly I think this is one of the better basics video on the tube. In my experience this type of training fits even the ‘total liberty’ approach and I don’t see signs of big pressure or fear. Respect is mutual like you state and starts with getting and giving attention. Focus is approving ‘good’ behaviour and ignoring ‘bad’ behaviour. In the case of fear training people focus on getting right the ‘bad’ behaviour ( even by beating, swiping, hurting ...). This will never be my approach and I don’t work with people doing this. I absolutely agree with your comment of injuries etc. I start my groundwork always just in the field without lead rope and harnas to get and give respect in total liberty (the horse decides if it wants to work with me and not me). I think eventually putting a horse in a round pen to get her feet moving and even to use attributes to guide this aspect would not mean that you are training the horse in fear. Condition is that the horse is familiar with the attributes and that you never beat or punish the horse with it. And that you praise the horse and focus on the positives. You can notice fear mostly in the eyes, ears, shoulder of the horse and the fact that it is not looking. A horse that runs and kicks in the pen is not necessarily a sign of fear. And fact is also that in nature a horse is a pray animal and we are predators, even if we would like not to, this is key. There is always a ‘confidence building stage’ in the beginning, because a horse wants to be able to trust. I love my (draft) horses and I hope they love me :-)

Yes! I've watched so many videos and went out to use some of the techniques and my mare goes crazy, doesn't act at all lile the perfect horse in the video! Then I'm left like, "well what the heck do I do with this?" Lol🤣🐎🐴

Lindsay Gonzales It's to get the horse to move AWAY from you when you move toward them. You dont want a dominant horse moving into your space until they first respect your space and requests. Once they respect your space and requests, then you can ask them to move their hind end away and turn toward you.

It’s a sign of disrespect when the horse turns it’s but towards you.

Not if horse does it in an aggressive manner they also need to get used to you asking them to move forward from behind n you shoeing them because your behind your still in control of their hind legs n not afraid also

It doesn’t matter if a horse turns away from you when turning direction as long as it’s not aggressive.

Your body language talks to the horse. They know when you want them to back away vs stand still for tack or mounting

A horse will only back up to those who are higher in the herd rank. Its showing them that they can respect you .

Maggie D hello Maggie, i hope you got an answer but if you start to move the nose of your horse with the lead rope towards you (small, firm and decisive pulls evading it becomes a power game OT pressure) than it will start paying attention. Second step would be moving her feet in small circles, third step making zigzag movements always pulling the nose of the horse in your direction, if this not helps you should try to get the horse in a round pen to train respect and attention. This video is really one of the best basics! I train my draft horses also like this!

Alexandra Kruid Im not a trainer but have been around horses all my life, on and off. A horse can kick with the front just as easily as the back but, the warning kick usually comes from the back leg. So if your goal is to correct this behavior full view of the reaction and instant correction would be the quickest way to go 😉 you can tech them to turn in later when your just lunging fo r exercise.

Either way. But it depends. Your signals determine if the horse turns to the outside or inside.

Very well done! and about your question: I am an Instructor and trainer. Definitely one of the goal is for the horse to change direction always by turning in. But if your horse are in a process of learning goals far away before that step, focus in the goals that you want him to reach. Like a little baby, you don't want him to eat meat before milk. Step by step!

I saw a video were you can just put some metal farm stakes in the ground with rope. Three layers of rope like a fence. Lunge line I would say no if a bad horse. You need distance and your hand to whip him.

Gerry Cox Kind!!!! Whips are not kind or necessary Www.thinklikeahorse.org

Whips when used correctly are nothing more than an extension of an arm... A horse kicking another horse isn't very kind either.. but then again affective!

Gerry Cox Rick Gore never uses whips and manages to get the wildest of horse moving with his body language alone - he doesn't need any 'arm extentions'.

Rick Gore? You mean Mister GIGGLES?? he's never really worked with many horses... a couple here and a couple there... In my opinion a very unskilled horseman...

Gerry Cox LOL

sonseere10 But when in reality.. if the horse did that to a higher ranking horse, the higher horse would go after him, pushing, biting, kicking.. so is it really that different? No

M Chom------What I said before is valid.

sonseere10 I never said it wasn’t.

I agree. I seen a few times when the horse looks at him trying to come in respectful but he was still chasing that horse away and that's when the horse kicks. I think that horse was trying to find out what he wants. Looking at him respectful for an invite in didn't work.

sonseere10 This man is not hitting this horse..

It shouldn’t matter unless the horse is clearly showing disrespect.

@@gloom0259 i imagine if you're having issues with the horse some disrespect is involved already...that's what the video is about.

She is trying to get you to respond. When you see this coming, just turn around and walk 'through her'. Put in determination, she will step aside. Not out of fear, but out of respect. For showing leadership

Voice commands is usually the way to go with that. whoa means whoa, when he's moving, the horse stops when he stops, and walks when he walks, or trots when he trots. If he wants the horse to stay still while he walks, I'm sure he tells him "whoa"

Ebony Eclipse Though I often use a voice command, horses are experts at reading body language and can easily tell when you are wanting the backup and when not.

@@judymiller5154 I was gonna say the same thing, they can tell by the way you carry yourself whether you want them to move away or stand still

sonseere10 It's just another skill. In my experience, so many domestic horses coming in for training have been "babied" so much, teaching respect first is a necessity. It's the trainer's call whether a particular horse needs work on bonding vs respect first.

Judy-----Respect comes along with the bonding process.

A horse staying out of your space is being respectful. And horses can lock on without getting in your space.

M Chom-----Don't get hung up on this 'keep the horse out of your space' stuff. That is lack of horse knowledge talk.

sonseere10 I don’t mean “keep the horse ten feet away at all times.” What I mean is if I say move away, then move away. Don’t be so close that you step on my feet and run me over, but don’t be so far that we have difficulty interacting.

fiona daniells It depends on your body language. If you want him out of your space, approaching with broad shoulders and bold body language, he should move away. Maybe not back away, but move away somehow. If you approach with passive body language (eyes down, shoulders relaxed, etc) the horse shouldn’t move away unless they are intimidated by how you approach them, such as walking up to them face to face. Some horses don’t like that and move away from that confrontation

M Chom The guy said everytime he approaches his horse he wants him to back away which didn't make any sense to me. Still do not agree with the use of whips - Rick Gore at Www.thinklikeahorse.org in my opinion shows true horsemanship - no whips...no bits ..no shoes...nothing. He was given a Mustang who was going to be destroyed as he was branded too dangerous. I agree it is all about body language.

fiona daniells I follow him too! He’s an awesome teacher for learning about horses and their behaviour

fiona daniells and yes, Tanner is awesome! It’s funny how he’s so feisty with buddy sometimes!

M Chom Buddy Hollywood 😂 love those three so much and really admire the horsemanship - I'm a whole lot less of a dummy now lol

+Cathy The Grey WAS off line.

widgeasha he wasn't paying any attention to him. Very very little if any. He doesn't know release

When watching this video, the releases seem obvious.

I agree there is never a true release when the horse does something good