you said to let you know in the comments what we can add or change in this . I don’t know your horse but; being a old lady who has worked with horses since 1976…. i hope you will be open to my comments as helpful advise . If you came to me and told me what eas going on with your horse and told you to get on and show me, and that was what I just saw, I would immediately recognize the problem as a disconnect between you and the horse based solely on personality. You have the right ideas, but your hands are heavy and you move too fast, rushing thru the actions like you have a train to catch and you are running late. the horse has zero time to “give” anything to you or even think about what it is you want from him so I can see him bracing against you to protect himself. It’s like when a coach yells at a team all day long and they start to just fail and fail and fail bc the coach is being so strong handed and pushing so hard. Simmer down your hands, relax and breathe deep. Ask your horse to give and start at the very very very beginning. If horse is rearing , and you flex that hard that fats all the time… the flex is getting you nowhere bc the horse has been braced up against you from the get go. He is supposed to work with you and learn. Let him learn. polish off the very very small simple tasks and ask …. and wait…. and release when he gives even the slightest inch towards your goal. take baby bites. Chop the lessons into small pieces and polish them. deeply . Let him learn to want to please you and he will work for you. The rearing will disappear all by itself if you do it this way. But heavy hands and rushed lessons are gonna make bigger and more dangerous problems. I’m not trying to tell you how to be a horseman and i hope you don’t take it that way . Just an old southern cowgirl who has done it thousand or more times and trial and error puts me where I am now. The ones I trained in my years past had to deal with me doing it all wrong. I’m not polished or perfect by any means. Just learned how to be better than i was last year and the year before and heck …..pretty sure you can show me a thing or two when it comes to my weak spots in my program. Everyone’s got one and if if anyone says they don’t …. then their weak spot is they are lying … ❤
Hi there! Thank you for your long detailed comment! Definitely agree with you for the most part and I think I would diagnose the situation the same way if I don’t know more about it. It’s hard to get the full picture in a 4 minute video… Phoenix would not rear up or resist if I was slow and gentle with him. In this video in order to show people what he was doing I had to be quicker and stronger with my hands than usual. If my goal was to avoid him rearing of course I could dial back the pressure. But if my goal was to teach him that when the pressure is high resistance is not the answer then what I did actually worked very well. In fact this video was the last time he ever reared. Because a one rein stop is an emergency stop used in high pressure situations, I had to get him to realize that when I pull harder that is no excuse to rear up. I hope that makes sense and just so you know I love your comment and I’m glad to have you on the channel! Just wanted to make it a bit clearer what is going on. All the best!
@@HorsePerfect I was wondering how you would know if there was something wrong in his mouth that hurt on the right side when you turned him to the right? I don't know enough for that to be a suggestion, it's just a question that i always wonder about when i watch horse videos.
Nice job working through this problem. I just have to say, people these days are often so quick to say the reason for some undesirable behavior in a horse is pain, and sometimes it is and that deserves consideration. However, most often it is not. It is more often behavioral and there are just getting to be fewer horsemen like yourself who are willing to work through difficult training issues. Everybody wants a quick fix. Kudos to you for sticking with this! I think you did a great job.
Hi Emily, thank you so much for your kind comment! I 100% agree with you on this. It is sad how shallow the horse community is getting nowadays. Sometimes it is genuinely a horse problem and the horse has to stop being ridiculous haha. Of course sometimes it’s pain or our fault but we have to be realistic more often. 👍🏼🙌🏼
Some horses are assholes, it's true - no pain, just resistance. My 9 year old stallion began to rear 2 months ago. I own him within 8 years. As a result: broke 3 bones in my hand. And he is a Second Level Dressage hose. Will definitely ask another professional rider for retraining and will geld the horse for sure
Much interesting. Tristan Tucker (see TRT) shows a similar approach but on the ground, asking and teaching the horse to release the pressure by himself with crossing the front legs. Hard to explain in a comment.
When turning to the right hes not engaging his hind end. The back legs should cross in front hes just dragging the leg. Where as to the left hes crossing and not rearing
Knowing that he stopped on the trail and then rared tells me he is getting aggravated by that bit. Or at some point it hits something he doesn't like. It's his mouth that is fighting back I believe.
I am assuming a vet has checked him out. But the fact he only does it to the right and not left makes me think he may have a problem behind his ears. Plus he throws his head up, might be painful.
Hes not raring with attitude, he is doing it as a means to move backwards in a sense. He seems like he just needs forward movement and keep flexing until he's comfortable. It's like when he flexes right his feet get stuck.
Hey Brian! Interesting what you said. That could be the case! He definitely was rearing with more attitude the previous day even with forward movement at the trot for example he would stop suddenly and do it again…but now I can confirm that he hasn’t reared at all for the last 35+ rides. This video was the last few times he did it! 😊🙌🏼
If you lean back with forward seat pressure when he rares, I bet his front feet will not get very high at all. He's not strong enough to rare until you lean forward.
