Groundwork basics with a 3 year old warmblood stallion 

Yes, I would not dare get on a horse that did not have this level of knowledge.

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Absolutely brilliant x x

I bought 2 older horses, they both turned out as "problem" horses and both of them didnt do just one of these things. I now bought a 2yo 2 years ago and startet with this ground work. He is 4yo now and I am now riding him for probably 6 months and he is so nice and smooth and easy to handle. 100 percent uncomplicated in anything.

@@shezakillrqueen Hard to teach old dogs new tricks

Thats what I was thinking hes showing a horse already taught but not how to get there

There are video before this one

Ar Acech Yes, I get lots of rearing. bucking and bolting horses in to retrain, and none of them have these basics, which is why they are bucking, rearing and bolting.

Ar Acech these things are almost never taught to English horses. I’ve worked as a pro rider for show jumping horses for 20 years and I’ve never seen anyone who wasn’t western teach a horse these things. Trust me there are Olympic horses who would loose their shit swinging a rope around them like that, or who can’t be hand walked without a bit or chain. It’s sad

@@beatemueller7830 Really? Even if it is just a "pasture pet" for its own good a horse should be easy to catch and halter, lead politely, load easily and stand for hoof care. Because they will be led, hauled, and have farriers visiting to care for their hooves.

@@lazygardens I saw a video of a supposed Olympic dressage rider leading her horse and she was holding it right under the jaw and when leading she had to lean against the horse because she couldn't do it properly. I pointed this out and her subscribers still give me excuses as of why "he was excited" "do you know who she is??" "He's a stallion" etc etc. I bet that if that horse had a, let's say plastic bag floating around it would freak the fuck out. Also I found it funny how they said that "she has more control like this" as if that horse couldn't run her over in a millisecond if he wanted. She wasnt in control whatsoever

@@vivientakacs5599 im still learning to do this with a horse and ill take this video with me to try and replicate some stuff because the horse i have to work with is very like uncertain, very unsure about a lot of stuff though swinging ropes and stick around is no problem because ive done that, problem is that it has never really clicked for me how to lunge and the girl thats owns the stable just pulls on their head when she want them to stop in lunging and im like it doesnt look pleasant for anyone and it confuses the horse because "a raised arm" is their signal to stop but its also their signal to start moving. if they dont stop she yanks hard. she taught me to do that too but im like it just doesnt look or feel right so ive been looking around for different way to do it. he also loses his attention on you a lot and i dont know how to tackle that yet either, but ill try to lunge him and train the buttyield in him too hahaha horses are great to work with and the boy im working with is amazing and weve really clicked with eachother and it feels incredible doing stuff with him and both teach and be taught. still a complete noob with a lot of stuff though but thats okay, im focused on taking it slow with him and getting him used to stuff slowly and letting him take breaks to lick and chew lick and chew. which he does a lot of when i do stuff with him, which is awesome to see. and when it clicks with him what im trying to accomplish hes just like breathing out and relaxing, i love it so much hahaha

***** Exactly! Doing that will only make your horse a basket case.

How do you teach them these things? And do you have videos for instruction?

Ap Wrg they are literally doing the exact same method

@@chloemonk683 they work by the same principle . But Anderson has nothing on Warwick . His timing and understanding of the horse is much better. Clinton can be very hard and hè is a marketing machine.

If you watch Clinton in the beginning of his career, there a huge difference, between his training then and now. To me, it seems like he had a scare, and don't trust horses anymore, so he's turning them into machines..

@@Galemor1 I'm not an expert, but a lot of the horse trainers (Clint Anderson, even Buck, if you've seen the documentary with a six-year-old stallion who cracked his assistant's head open you'll know what I mean.) Where they have no time nor patience to work with problem horses anymore. They grind out these horses in three days at the most, Monty Roberts is one of the few who can do this, even he has spent months on cases that have more issues than just his regular clinic. In his book, he even admits there were some horses that were even BEYOND his training because of how far they were gone. (One stallion had live wire around his stall because of how often he climbed out and attacked people when Monty saw him, he said to that horses dying breath the horse was never fully trained out of it.) Most horses fit under this regime who have no or small "issues", but any horse, especially extreme ones like the one in Buck, need A LOT more time than three days. They are so focused on the end result and not looking bad in front of their audience, they try to force the horses through these clinics. Then you end up with an abused horse or a badly injured trainer that they blame everything but what happens when you rush a horse that's at that level of danger. That stallion needed a lot more work to get him at the level where he needed to be to even be CLOSE to malleable. But Buck pushed through it because it was a three-day clinic and didn't want to make it longer without having to explain to his fans why he couldn't handle that horse in three days. I don't blame him for how the horse was, I blame him for how that horse ended up as at the end of the clinic and how he made feeble excuses about it. Warwick takes DAYS to months working with any horse. He doesn't rush it, he doesn't push it, he gives the time that's needed. This stallion worked only 10 minutes the first day, and that was slowly going around the round pen to just get him used to it and what was expected of him. Even now, he's not even mounting the horse, he's letting the horse figure it out on his own, and this is a much milder case than a lot of others.

@@SaraNightfire1 My friend had her horse at the Monty clinic in Norway, with a trailer loading issue. After the clinic, she still couldn't load him, and had to ride him home again. She had to train him to load herself, with treats and such. I like Warrick, because he doesn't focus on the outcome, or "fixing" the issue, he just figures out what the horse initially needs. Like the horse that spent the clinic sleeping. But he has talked about how he used to be like the others, trying to dominate and tell the horses what to do, without really listening. About the attacking stallion, some horses are better off in heaven, as they aren't feeling any pain, confusion, hunger, and such then. And some people just shouldn't be around animals. As you know, the women broke down in tears, admitting that she was mentally unstable herself, because of being emotionally scared. That's why she had all those other stallions back home too.

It's not as hard as it seems, just use basic pressure and release. Swing a rope near the horse, and keep swinging if they are moving and fidgety, and the SECOND they stop moving, stop swinging the rope.

Yes, I think it was 6 days a week for a month

If you search through my videos you can find my whole first session with him , roaring and flailing hisfront legs around.

Warwick has a subscription service on his website - hundreds of videos, thousands of hours of instruction for $25/month, with more videos added every month, it's a bargain.

I have over 800 of those on my website, this is just to show you the results.

Dressage riders aren't even able to get their horse to cross a short bridge.. If you can't control your horse movements out on the trail, how can you call yourself a dressage rider. Because dressage is all about the movements and how you control them... And if you can't replicate that outside of the arena, then are you really doing it right?

Taught, all of it was taught.

Fantastic. Thanks.

A lot of people can show you how. I have over 800 videos on my website is one place you could go

Miam Maij, it looks like it's big enough to ride in without feeling like you are in a fishbowl. I bet it is 60 feet. but I am following to find the real answer.

When its good, you can move on. In fact when its good, you HAVE to move on.

I love your videos... I'm currently backing a real thinking youngster... these methods work wonders on him. Thank you for making them

My horse is worse out in company than on our own (shying etc. When other horses do) would you suggest trail riding alone so he sees me as the leader and not the other horses?

Jodie, yes, just go to my website, its listed just above this ( below the title ).

By creating a confident relaxed horse, they are better prepared to deal with different situations.