Tamara Leśnik yasss trueee, I go to a riding school and I pick this really nice cob called buster, and he is sooo lazy I freaking have to nudge him a lot to even get him to walk
That was fantastic! I feel like I just had a year's worth of lessons in 15 minutes. I realize that I've been doing just about everything I shouldn't to get my mare to move out. She will be so glad you made this video, lol. Thank you!
Thanks for acknowledging those of us who take lessons on school horses but also go to the internet to learn more :) This was very helpful and educational, although it probably won't be super useful for me at the moment as lesson horses are also ridden by other people of different skill levels, who may let them get away with things ;)
Same situation here, so I will physically walk him in the ring for a lap or two before I mount. It seems to make a nice transition rather than immediately jumping on.
A place I learned would almost only give us "lazy" horses to initially learn from. I always ask for the least responsive gentile smart horse. I always thought the horse just forgot what I wanted to do so slowed down... so I would do kisses to keep them going or even speed them up.
tomorrow I have a lesson at this barn and most of the horses can be quite lazy, so I hope watching this video will help getting them started on a trot!
+KinguinKingsleyy24 I think gymleading2 thinks you meant you had a lesson at THIS particular barn - the one where the video has been filmed at, haha. Apologies if I'm wrong but I actually thought that's what you meant at first ☺️
That was beautiful , this is what real partnership looks like. No violence, no hard whipping. The horse understands, the horse know how to do right and is not frustrated and confused. Thank you
I own a 5 year old, off the track thoroughbred (Bones Baxter) A great great grandson of secretariat..uncle to American pharoh. He had an injury during a race. His owners had a surgery done and then he was able to race again. although they couldn't get him to run fast enough anymore. so, he was sent to a rescue ranch were i found my best friend Baxter. Hes new to my kind of riding..i do jumping and dressage. those things are completely different from racing. He's very confused during my riding lessons, although he has improved remarkably.I love him alot! i would never sell him, he's my best friend. I need a horse that will listen so i keep training him because hes got great blood lines, hes sweet, good with other horses, decent with kids, and hes gorgeous. thanks for the helpful tips i hope this will work, because my trainer will just yell "KICK!" if he doesn't respond. personally im sick of my trainer..but i want to show her i can be someone with this horse. thank you so much!
My horse is the great grandson of Secretariat and a off track racer ,they rehomed him because he couldn't be ridden after a bad injury ,it's still fun to have an old racer grazing in the pasture and getting brushed even if I can't ride him I love him (renamed him Zip)
My horse was a cutting horse before I got him hes 15 years old and he is the great great grandson of secretariat and my other horse rosie is the great great great granddaughter
This is super helpful advice for me. I have a former school horse and constant pressure doesn't work at all for him. I just started riding with a dressage whip and you explained really well how to use it effectively. Thanks a ton for this video!!! I wish more trainers would work this way!
Thank you so much for this lesson Callie. I tried your techniques with my loan horse yesterday as I was finding that I was having to use constant leg on her. The results were astounding! I only had to use the whip a couple of times and she became so much more responsive. I hardly used my legs at all again on a two hour ride and even then with the gentlest of pressure. This technique made the ride so much more pleasurable for my horse and me. Thank you so much 😊🥰
Great lesson, especially the tip on properly using the whip. I've never had a trainer actually tell me how to use a whip, just to hold it and smack him with it. Which I hate to do so usually just make a smacking sound by swatting my own leg. Notice how the horse still pops up into the trot. Tricky thing for a beginning rider like myself is avoiding being jerked back in the seat with that little pop and accidentally pulling back on the reins. I think the clashing aids do the most to spoil a school horse. Notice how gentle her hands are in this lesson. This is just really tricky for riders who are learning. Looking forward to trying this out, though better for someone like me to just ride a horse who isn't a struggle so I can learn a good balanced seat first! I love this trainer. Please keep posting your videos!!!!
Yea one time my instructor (Only had her one lesson) told me to smack my horse behind the saddle because he wasn't trotting forward enough, and I just didn't do it lol.
Here's another great video on how to get the horse hot and reactive! Hope it helps! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fsHLmwTd3uo.htmlsub_confirmation=1
This was so helpful. The schoolie I'm leasing for the summer has a reputation as a "lazy" horse. The owner of the barn told me I would almost certainly have to carry a crop to get her to trot. I'm not super savvy with the training whip, so I tapped my hand on my leg with rhythm to add pressure, similar to what you demonstrated in the video. Worked like a charm. The horse was trotting with the leg aid and one kiss (no tapping) by the end of the session and almost went into a trot after my first cue alone, which is just moving the reins and my weight forward. She was also sustaining it until I asked for the walk, which was also an issue. It was so nice to have some guidance to help out with this. Thank you so much for the video.
Thanks for this video! I've been working with a horse like this for about a year and he's come a really long way. Agree with all your tips and would add - when I really focus on relaxing my leg (almost to the point of floppiness) but giving a tiiiiiiiny little encouragement with the leg each time I post, it really started to get an effect. I stopped trying to have a perfect still leg and things really got better and easier for me and the horse.
This was made 6 years ago, but thank you if you see this. Soon I’m going to be riding a lesson horse named Fig. She never wants to work and hopefully your tips will help me ride her. I do a group lessons which is 1 hour, so she used to getting kicked all the time to catch up with the others. She gets fed up and pretends she needs to remove waste from her body. But she is just getting kicked continuously with all of her riders so she does this. They whip her hard thinking it will make her go forward. Really, it makes her kick out. They kick her hard thinking it will make her go forward. Really, it makes her stop and get annoyed. I will try your tips to see if it works. Thank you.
I have noted down everything demonstrated. I have a really "lazy" (unresponsive) riding school horse but I don't want to give up on her for a more responsive horse because she is a great teaching horse. I will try all these tips, especially stopping the seat "scooting" because I gave myself a pain in the back! I have learned a lot in 15 minutes!
I'm glad you talk about the horse being unresponsive to the rider because of the rider, rather than "being stubborn" or "hard work". So many people just blame the horse.
I love riding horses. iv'e rode a lazy horse before from medowlarke his name was carlos. i had some trouble to canter but eventually he started to for mabey a minute :)
I swear one time i rode a lazy horse i started sobbing cause i was kicking her and she was just chilling there and the trainer was shouting and telling me to kick harder (im a spaghetti like literally my legs arent strong) amd she took my whip away and i was lik- I NEED THAT
Wow, thank you so much!!!!!!! it works, today my instructor told me to ride this horse and I was disappointed because she was so slow and not willing, I tried your swaying technique where u push your body to make the horse go faster and it worked like a charm!! even she said that my riding looks a lot better, Thank tyou so much!!
We definitely have this issue at the barn I volunteer at. Problem is, it's a therapuetic riding program, so the horses not only do the same patterns and movements over and over (booooring!) and have a multitude of leader types, but they have to decide when to listen to aides and when the child is just a squiggle worm. Any tips for the ground leader to get a horse motivated forward other than using a crop or swinging the lead?
walk slightly more infront of the horse or pony and cluck your mouth or gold the lead with the outside hand (nearest the the horse )and click your fingers that's how I do it x
The lesson gal kept yelling at me today "more leg" but by God I was using all my leg. I had no more strength. I had yet the hardest forward moving horse today, she wouldn't go and if she did it would be her direction at the speed of a snail or she would stop completely. It was like a tug of war lesson today trying to keep her on the rail. To trot her a few seconds only happened with aide of the whip. I did everything pointed wrong on this video, lol. She is not a lesson horse and her owner told me she likes being asked the correct way or she will tell on you, and so she did! I will keep this video advice in mind next time I ride her!
My riding instructor is more mental than physical and this video helps so much. Squeezing for certain time intervals rather than kicking or using heels is what I'm working for. We have horses like this in the barn as wel
Horses do pick up on each rider so quickly. You’re right, some stable “rental horses” are ridden differently by both inexperienced riders as well as well schooled riders. That horse will pick up on your needs and it is consistency and patience that wins the enjoyment of the ride. I want my horse to feel the freedom of being able to move. I personally love seeing your giving verbal commands as well. I like sound commands when I ride and a lot of praise. The bottom line, we both want enjoyment out of our rides. Some “stable rental” horses are tired and consider the outside temperature (is it hotter than hell out for the horse.) Consistency and praise sure beat a whip in the wrong hands! Thanks for this video...I love seeing how you are freeing the horses anatomy for their comfort from human mistakes. God bless. Keep the videos coming. 🥰🐎
Thank you so much for posting this video, my horse responded so well. I didn't have a stick but used my legs using the release instead of keeping them on him to keep him going and he relaxed at first he just stopped but then he just got it. I was so pleased! Love your videos from the UK 🇬🇧
this is still so useful, in a once a week lesson with focus on trot/canter transition it's hard to find time to just work on this. but for me one aim is make sure I learn the aids consistently so I can get a horse to respond and stay in the gait until I want them to come out of it. Goals yr 2.
This is an excellent little video Callie. You're very good at articulating the basic principles & techniques that often get misconstrued, or just missed, often to the detriment of the horse. It's good to hear such clear & logical instructiion with useful demonstration. Thankyou for sharing. And Kudos to you. 🐴🐎🙏
I think you gave a great presentation. I don’t actively ride now but could have used this advice with the accompanying explanation of the training aspect of it years ago. Great job.
I have a Friesian x Clydesdale and this is so helpful as she is the laziest horse I’ve ever rode! She is only 8 and is extremely quiet which is one reason she is slow but I’m definitely going to try these when I ride her next.
i know what this is like the horse that i ride her name is Flicka. she is a 14 year old quarter horse who in every type of move (W/T/C/J) i have to push her more with every stride of her canter. I love her she loves me. we bond a lot. Reply and tell me about your horse or just the horse you ride if they are or are not lazy! :-)
A family friend (and vet tech, as well as a trainer), bought a young thoroughbred gelding from the Secretariat bloodline. First time she rode him, wild and jumpy. They had him hyped up on energy dense everything. Took him home, got him on grass hay and some rolled barely. Calmed down right away. Now she can’t even get him to stay in a trot for more than ten seconds. She’s even resorted to having a crop and some spurs (even after three whole months of training, plus the three he’s had at his old stable). So yeah, a Secretariat child with no drive 😂😂
You tap the horse directly behind your leg, or occasionally some people do it on the shoulder but your best bet is always directly behind your leg, don’t hit your horse on his bum.
Super clear and consistent! Besides, I love the way you truly consider the Horse in everything you do with them! Last but not least, beautiful smooth transitions to watch! Inspiring! Congratulations and thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I just rode the laziest barn horse at a local stable yesterday and, after 10 minutes, just gave up and took it back to the barn. It was a beautiful day, and I just didn't have the patience for this animal. Afterward, I hopped on my "iron horse" and enjoyed the rest of my day.
What you said at the beginning was so relatable...some of the horses at my barn are so lazy it's crazy 😂...I do equine studies (equine science) so I already know what makes a horse lazy!
Shouldn't you first encourage the rider to rule out any potential pain-related issues that could be causing the horse to be mistaken as a "lazy" horse? For instance, your horse appears to have a funny walk behind (possibly short on the right hind) but it almost looks like it's related to the hip and not the foot. I hope I'm way off base though.
A good point that pain issues should be ruled out with any undesirable behaviour in horses, but in general pain does not result in a lazy horse, as the horse will normally react a bit more violently (or outright refuse where he was willing before, tends to be a sudden change to normal behavior rather than a gradual learned one) to pressure in that case rather than just be dull. And in regards to the funny walk behind (and good point that they are usually caused in the hip, not the foot), I thought the same for a moment but I think that is simply an illusion caused by one white hind leg versus one black, perhaps stepping a little bit short in the black leg which would most likely be a easily fixed chiropractic issue, not a major deal however. In general if you think the horse is lame/in pain, the trot is best gait to observe any uneveness rather than the walk
looking at Bandit is just like looking at my own horse. The way he moves, the way he stays there and wait, his stance, the way he reacts, the time he takes to reacts, the head popping in the air when we kick harder, his face when shes ask him to do something... ahah just the same x) may not be always suited for high level competitions, but these horses are definately the best buddies :)
I’ve always ridden PRE horses that love to work. I am starting to ride my first Warmblood (really good lines, son of DeNiro, etc) and he is super lazy. I’ve taken the attitude “you’re either gonna buck me off or you’re gonna give me all you got”. This far I am winning but it is exasperating. I don’t use constant pressure, I just explode every 1 or 2 minutes if he’s lazy to keep him guessing. I hope that when he’s in top shape he’ll cooperate more.
One main reason horses get lazy is from keeping them in stalks all the time. Keep them in a pasture, which keeps them active, less colic, less depression, and less hoof problems among other reasons. I know why horses are kept in stalls.., it's because of LAZY riders who don't know how to catch their horse in a pasture. Such rider needs to learn how to be herd leader when they enter that pasture, and understand horse body language and herd dynamics. So please, turnout horses to pasture and turn stalls into storage areas. ;)
I recently bought a quarter horse pony, she is quite lazy ! I was looking for tips to help with her lack of forwardness and this video helped me so much. I'm going to start using this exercise ;) thx !!!!
Calling a horse 'a lazy horse' implies that it is the horse's fault. It is not. I is due to the actions of the person that works with the horse the most. It is never the horse's fault. Stop blaming the horse.
+brandi b You just said 'some horses are lazy some are not'. Incorrect. A horse is a reflection of the person that handles them the most. I the person is a strong leader, the horse will not act 'lazy'.
Why on earth would she do that when the horse obviously knows how to carry himself and respond to cues from the rider! - Messing with a horses mouth "just because" is a sure way to desensitize his mouth and cause unnecessary discomfort and pain, which in the long run can lead to some serious problems, behavioral wise or physical. Never understood English riders(not all, but a lot of you) obsession with riding horses on short reins, you don't need it! And the horse sure as hell appreciate someone whom can ride it on relaxed or long reins over someone constantly holding its mouth/head hostage.
Thank you so much for this video. It will help me so much as I think I've been putting to much leg on my mare and seems that I've had to increase it and keep it there all the time which is making posting more difficult. She is a lazy mare (a quarter horse and the sweetest) but low energy even on the groundwork. With her groundwork I've increased pressure to get a quick froward response and I release any pressure quickly, I only have to ask once or twice in warm up so I know it works as she is so much more responsive and moving forward. Time to do the same under saddle as you've taught me that I was making her lazy and dull. It will be a new thing to work on this week! Love you videos! :-)
This video is old but recently helped me a lot, I actually own a lot of green horses and one of them is kinda “lazy” I’m starting to worry with her since she’s 3 years old, I ride Western and she was trained in a different way It was all a matter of communication! Thanks for making this video, you’re helping us a lot!
Thanks for this. Im a little late, but i found out i might ride the laziest lesson horse in the barn for shows. Im not sure id do too well, but i'll start trying some of this. Thanks!
Thank you for making this video! I can't wait to try these techniques on my pony, he is lovely and we do well together, but he has gotten less and less responsive over time due my tension and misunderstanding dressage principles. Now I will have a strategy and some tools to improve him on my own! I can't afford lessons, but I look forward to learning lots from all your videos. Thank you so much for providing all this excellent content and info!
Very helpful - will try this next lesson. I'm just a beginner, and last time had to kick the horse every 2-3 sec to make it move a bit faster, and thought it should be that way. Thank you for the tips!
I ride school horses, the first horse/pony I ever rode was called Preston, I loved him but he was really unresponsive with my 'commands.' He would walk but when I tried to get him to trot it took about 10 kicks+ to get him going. Anyway, soon they let me ride a different pony called Prince, he was an amazing horse and he was responsive!
