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Training your horse to stand still: "Get On Your Horse" by John Lyons Trainer Keith Hosman, your handbook to gaining respect at the mounting block -- with additional, essential exercises
Train Your Horse to Stand Still While You Get On
Section II presents four additional chapters designed to “round out” or “book end” the previous training. You'll find tips, tricks, and buckets of additional insight into the specific issue at hand, that is, the horse that’s begun “dancing” at the mounting block.
While the “Days” of Section I should be worked through in the order presented, materials found in the second half are more or less “stand alone” and can be put into practice when common sense dictates.
Further topics include:
- Rider Checklists (Once you’ve fixed your horse at the mounting block, keep future attitudes in tune by running each of these 3 checklists through your head with each ride. Think “preventative care.”)
- The First Thing I Do (The slightest resistance from your horse in peaceful moments will be far worse at higher speeds or at traumatic moments, leading to balking, bolting or worse.)
- Cinchy Horses (If you can’t “mount up” because your horse is half alligator at “tack up time,” here’s how to deal with the gnashing teeth, thrashing tails and stomping feet.)
- Pick Up Your Reins Like a Pro (This is - with super-specific detail -- how to pick up, handle, and release your reins. Keep your horse’s mouth happy -- and he’ll take care of you.)
Teach your horse to move to the mounting block and to stand rock solid as you get on
This handbook shows you the steps you must take to put an end to this annoying and dangerous habit regardless of its cause. From John Lyons Certified Trainer Keith Hosman
Your horse will stand there politely, and fellow riders will have new and positive impressions of your skills as a horseman. With additional training for added insight.
Section I of “Get On Your Horse: Curing Your Mounting Problems” offers up a 5-day, step-by-step guide to teaching your horse to move to the mounting block, to lunge, to give respect - and to stand rock solid.
Topics include:
- Day One: “Whoever Moves First Loses” (Start earning R-E-S-P-E-C-T)
- Day Two: Teach your horse to move to the mounting block (Move your horse back to the mounting block - and amaze your friends - when you teach your horse to sidepass to you on the ground)
- Day Three: Now Moving Becomes Our Idea (Channel your horse’s unwanted movements into productive training as “Moving Becomes Our Idea”)
- Day Four: Working from the Saddle (Work from the saddle to lock in your “standing order”)
- Day Five: The Reins - 5 Ways to Improve Your Use (Without realizing it, the way we use the reins often causes many aggravating issues.)
- And, Finally... When you do get on, do this first
This is your roadmap to safely ending a troublesome and dangerous habit
If your horse has developed the annoying habit of walking off or backing up as you try to mount up, this course is for you. If you dread the thought of heading out to the barn because you know your horse is going to embarrass you red-faced, refusing to stand still at the mounting block, this course is for you. If the little voice in your head says it’s only a matter of time ‘til you get him (the little voice) killed...then yup, this course is for you.
- Correct the horse that has decided he's in charge, not you
- Learn to position your horse no matter which way he moves
- Learn to move your horse toward you on the ground
- Learn how to lunge your horse
- Follow easy exercises to make lasting changes
- Cure a situation that could grow dangerous, left unchecked
Take heart: When we’re through here, you’ll know how to remedy this situation. Your horse will stand there politely, you'll mount safely, and fellow riders will have new and positive impressions of your skills as a horseman.
"Get On Your Horse, Curing Mounting Problems"... A step-by-step plan to fixing your mounting block blues
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If Your Horse Moves Away From the Mounting Block"Beyond moving away as you prepare to mount up, has your horse picked up other annoying habits? Does he bang impatiently on the stall at feeding time? Or lead poorly or buck or bite or kick out during a speed transition or drop his head to eat grass or forget you exist when whinnying to his buddies or 'get cinchy' or act the fool for the farrier...? Has your horse come to see you as underling? When the answer is 'yes,' know that while remedying this behavior certainly brings about positive results in a broad sense – it is a primary key to fixing the horse that moves off at the mounting block." ~An excerpt from "Day One: Whoever Moves First Loses (Or, 'How to Get Respect')" |
Teaching Your Horse to Stand Still"As you’re no doubt aware, we can’t stop a horse that wants to move. It’s just not possible and trying to force the issue is a time-waster. In the saddle, no bit is ever big enough or can cause enough pain to 'make' a horse stand still. From the ground, no amount of pleading and no amount of smacking or cursing is going to make that horse park out for you if he’s not trained to do so and 'not of a mood.' To combat this, we switch things up on Day Three by saying not 'stop,' but 'go.' We’ll position ourselves to climb aboard and, should our horse move off, we’ll say to it, in effect: 'If I can’t stop you when I want, then you can’t stop when you want.... and we’ll just see who’s more stubborn.' (Hint: It’s gotta be you.)" ~An excerpt from this book's Introduction: "Fixing Mounting Problems" |
Train Your Horse to Move to You at the Mounting Block"To cure our mounting block trouble, we began in Day One learning to place ourselves back (in our horse’s mind) as the boss – and we learned to deal with a horse that’s trying versus one that’s blowing us off and merely 'calling it in' during our training sessions. Those are critical lessons for us when we realize that horses are not programmed by nature to antagonize (moving away from the mounting block is a prime example) 'beings' that outrank them in the herd; notice how obliging each is in the pasture to the boss mare. Of equal import is the understanding that, for us to make any lasting change, we need to know that the ideas taught in the arena are indeed sinking in in that moment, not just going in one long ear and out the other." ~An excerpt from "Day Two: Teach Your Horse to Move to You on the Ground" |
Your Trainer & Guide: Keith HosmanAuthor and John Lyons Trainer Keith Hosman lives just outside of San Antonio, Texas and divides his time between writing how-to training materials and conducting training clinics in most of these United States as well as in Germany and the Czech Republic. He is the author of "What I'd Teach Your Horse," "Your Foal," "There's More to Training Horses" and 9 more horse training books. |
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| Description | A book of solutions for the horse owner. Section I: "Fright" in it's myriad forms. Section II: What you need to know to keep your horse tuned-up and out of trouble. Section III: Step-by-step fixes for the most common problems faced by horse owners. | Put an end to your horse's bucking fits: Learn ground work and riding exercises designed to re-train your horse's brain plus immediate fixes for horses that buck into the canter, freeze up, balk at obstacles and your own fear. Make riding fun again! | Teach your horse to show respect, to move to the mounting block, to lunge, and to stand rock solid with this 5-Day guide. This is your roadmap to stopping an annoying and dangerous habit. With additional training for added insight. | You can't make your horse stop rearing with a "bigger, badder bit." You can't "wish it away" and he'll not magically "get over it." You've got to proactively retrain his brain. Here's how. | Teach any horse to trailer load willingly when you ask! "Trailer Training Horses: Simple Steps to Loading Your Horse" is a simple, how-to guide that gets your horse trailer-trained for good. | Be a better rider, be a better horse trainer: Tips, tricks, mental imagery & sage advice. This book trains people to train horses—because there's more to riding than not falling off and to training than teaching a horse to stop or go. |
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