| Scene of regular working with the horse can look like very boring for the outside observers. It seems that nothing is happening and the rider is simply enjoying his ride. Much more entertaining is the sight to watch when a man tames an obstinate horse, while beating it with the blows of whip.
However, the physical superiority of man over the horse does not mean, that the horse is completely under your control. So as to teach the horse something, one must apply brains, rather than use the whip.
First of all, the training of horse begins with the understanding how the horse thinks. You should precisely imagine, how their logic works. Communication between the thoughts in the mind of a horse and reaction to them is not similar to the human logic.
At times it seems to us, that the horse is too obstinate and does not want to execute our orders, but in reality it can be simply frightened. As a result, it simply goes into shell and it becomes much more difficult to take the horse out from this situation, rather than initially listen to the horse.
The matter is that, the psychology of a horse is the psychology of an animal victim. Sight is the first and main indicator of imminent danger, and only then they realize about the incident. Here I will try to explain: when we come nearer to a horse, for example, we simply wish to pat it, - it does not understand our intentions. It only observes our actions and movements and starts to think whether it is safe for it to remain unmoved or it must run away to a safer place.
So, your first objective should be to make horse perceive you as a “simple leopard” instead of a “hunting leopard”. You should not appear to be an attacking predator for the horse. The next objective after the horse has accepted you in its “herd”, should be to win the position of a leader. As it is known, the herd follows the leader, who controls the entire flock and takes the decisions. It gives all the arbitrary signals by its body language which is understandable to others. In the same way, at the first place you must use the body language so as to draw the attention of horse towards you. For example, try to play with the horse, that is, use the same actions which it is used to in the herd. For example, combing of withers etc.
Here is the obvious example of misunderstanding, when the horse rider tries to interpret the actions of a horse from the point of view of humans. All know that if the horse is frightened or offended, its head is extended upwards and all its muscles are strained. From the point of view of horse rider, it is necessary to strike the horse on the isolators or work on the hollow martingale so that the head was always lowered, until the horse does not understand the required position of its head. However, if the horse is strained because of the actions of rider which it does not understand or which frighten it, the problem only gets aggravated. From the point of view of horse, isolators or martingale are the immediate threat or attack from the man. If the actions of rider are clear to the horses from the very beginning, then, after having relaxed, it hangs its head, obeying to just mechanical influence of snaffling.
People, who try to put some task before the horse at once, and then punish the animal if it does not carry it out, are wrong. They think, that they are teaching the horse a lesson, as in school. However, the horse does not understand their remarks and D grades, and perceives the punishment as threat. Actually in this way, no training is taking place. Using such technique, you only show to the horse that the one who is more quick and strong will win. Therefore, you prevent the horse from relaxing and step by step and logically master the unfamiliar elements.
Besides for trainers it is necessary to realize, that horses are not capable to distinguish or understand the human emotions and feelings. Namely, our emotions also frequently create conflicting situations between the horse and the rider. If we do not expect in advance and control our actions, we appear to be under the control of our instincts.
As people, in the first place the men, are predators by nature with a corresponding instinct for struggle, therefore the first reaction to any threat is the attack. More dangerous the threat, more strong is the protective reaction i.e, attack is more aggressive. It has been observed that the equestrians, who swiftly fight with their horses, are absolutely not capable to control their own horse.
In the training, you should move ahead step by step methodically, making the actions, capable to draw all the attention of the horse towards you and control this attention, without frightening and attacking the horse. Training a horse means to dominate it mentally and not physically. |
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good idea...but the highlights of the legs is opposite to the horse
