Every horse is different so every horse requires different methods of how you would get he/she to do this! When you ride your horse practice using LESS REIN AIDS and more LEG AIDS! If your horse tends to move faster as a result of leg commands then try to slow it down a notch and practice more groundwork with them first. If your horse tends to be better with a bit then this is fine as you would just need more control with your horse if this is the end result! If you have an arena, outdoor ring, or fenced off piece of pasture then try leading somebody around on him or her with just a halter and have them practice using leg aids! That way your horse can get used to being ridden with a halter but also if your horse decides to go faster you can tell them to slow down a little bit, and so that way you can see the amount of pressure that the rider is putting on your horse. Overall this practice and end result of riding with a Halter just takes TIME! Every horse learns a different way some tend to pick up the concept a lot more faster and then other horses tend to pick up the concept more slowly. Research what kind of extrovert that your horse is and then you can determine how to do this from the ground up and build with them. What kind of extrovert your horse is determines how soon and how fast/slowly you can move along with this concept! If you horse does not pick it up right away every person who owns a horse out there needs to be aware that this process TAKES TIME!
Here is a helpful hind to all my readers out there:
IF YOUR HORSE'S MANE PARTS ON THE RIGHT SIDE THEN YOUR HORSE IF RIGHT HANDED, IF YOU HORSE'S MANE PARTS ON THE LEFT SIDE THEN YOUR HORSE IS LEFT HANDED!
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Training your horse to be ridden with a halter...
Lots of people ask me this question daily; "How do I get my horse to be ridden with a halter?" Well it really starts with a good relationship with your horse!That is always the first foundations of your success together as horse and rider! Practice the concept of 'Moving away from Pressure' with your horse. Since horses move away from pressure naturally then this should be fairly easy to teach your horse! Start with the Porcipine Game, this exercise teaches you horse to move away from the certain amount of pressure that you are enforcing on their sides, you would want to take your carrot stick and push on the area of the horse near the hindquarters where the hair grows up! Press fairly hard until they move away and then reward them. Do this on both sides of the horse a couple times until he or she gets used to the concept!
Every horse is different so every horse requires different methods of how you would get he/she to do this! When you ride your horse practice using LESS REIN AIDS and more LEG AIDS! If your horse tends to move faster as a result of leg commands then try to slow it down a notch and practice more groundwork with them first. If your horse tends to be better with a bit then this is fine as you would just need more control with your horse if this is the end result! If you have an arena, outdoor ring, or fenced off piece of pasture then try leading somebody around on him or her with just a halter and have them practice using leg aids! That way your horse can get used to being ridden with a halter but also if your horse decides to go faster you can tell them to slow down a little bit, and so that way you can see the amount of pressure that the rider is putting on your horse. Overall this practice and end result of riding with a Halter just takes TIME! Every horse learns a different way some tend to pick up the concept a lot more faster and then other horses tend to pick up the concept more slowly. Research what kind of extrovert that your horse is and then you can determine how to do this from the ground up and build with them. What kind of extrovert your horse is determines how soon and how fast/slowly you can move along with this concept! If you horse does not pick it up right away every person who owns a horse out there needs to be aware that this process TAKES TIME!
Here is a helpful hind to all my readers out there:
IF YOUR HORSE'S MANE PARTS ON THE RIGHT SIDE THEN YOUR HORSE IF RIGHT HANDED, IF YOU HORSE'S MANE PARTS ON THE LEFT SIDE THEN YOUR HORSE IS LEFT HANDED!
Every horse is different so every horse requires different methods of how you would get he/she to do this! When you ride your horse practice using LESS REIN AIDS and more LEG AIDS! If your horse tends to move faster as a result of leg commands then try to slow it down a notch and practice more groundwork with them first. If your horse tends to be better with a bit then this is fine as you would just need more control with your horse if this is the end result! If you have an arena, outdoor ring, or fenced off piece of pasture then try leading somebody around on him or her with just a halter and have them practice using leg aids! That way your horse can get used to being ridden with a halter but also if your horse decides to go faster you can tell them to slow down a little bit, and so that way you can see the amount of pressure that the rider is putting on your horse. Overall this practice and end result of riding with a Halter just takes TIME! Every horse learns a different way some tend to pick up the concept a lot more faster and then other horses tend to pick up the concept more slowly. Research what kind of extrovert that your horse is and then you can determine how to do this from the ground up and build with them. What kind of extrovert your horse is determines how soon and how fast/slowly you can move along with this concept! If you horse does not pick it up right away every person who owns a horse out there needs to be aware that this process TAKES TIME!
Here is a helpful hind to all my readers out there:
IF YOUR HORSE'S MANE PARTS ON THE RIGHT SIDE THEN YOUR HORSE IF RIGHT HANDED, IF YOU HORSE'S MANE PARTS ON THE LEFT SIDE THEN YOUR HORSE IS LEFT HANDED!
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