How To Teach Your Horse To Bow (3 Different Methods) 

Very carm girl ,,very nice

my horse is older too. he is about 20 so that is why i am training him too. He doesn't listen the best when riding but hopefully he will figure this out because he is a very calm horse.

I wouldn't of thought to try it on an alpaca :)

Lol, he’s such a sport for these how to’s 🤣

Nope, that’s just my voice. Leg got hurt in an non-horse related accident

Sam VanFleet oh okay! Hope it heals fast! Love your videos!🐴❤️👍

How it went?

All the steps are in the first video.

oops, i meant from using the rope to using your hand in the first* method

I’m well aware there isn’t a part two for the laydown 🙂

Sam VanFleet that legit was no help to her 💀

Sam VanFleet how long would you say it typically takes to teach the pay down?? Like days vs months?

This was my first time getting the chance to use it- so far I like it but I’ll have to use it a few more times to decide

At what point was the leadrope wrapped around my hand? Give me a time stamp please 🙂

Sam VanFleet it looked like it at 0:17 but I just now realize that was your bracelet, silly me.

Start tapping and then manually do it. Use the new cue, and then the old cue. Sequence your cues to transition it

You can use either leg

Sam VanFleet thx! That helps a lot

What I've been doing with my horse is putting wait on her back using my hands to get her used to it. Then I've been throwing an old towel on her back so looks like somebody is climbing on her back and then put pressure on the towel to simulate a rider. Then I tried hopping on and she was great. I know the towel thing and the pressure on the back sound silly but it actually worked. I'm training the bow so that way I can get on her if there is no mounting block. She ain't tall but neither am I and the first time I tried mounting bareback without a block I just sort of bounced off of her and she just looked at me like what are you doing. Shes used to people sort of bouncing off of her like that or people doing strange things on her back because she is an ex vaulting horse. Anyways hope this helps!

I'm having the same problem with my second horse. What I found that helped was going back and working on the back up. I then went back to the bow and was talking to her reassuring her that she can back up on 3 legs and the world isn't going to end if you drop to the ground and show be how polite you can be. So just going back to the back up, comforting them by talking softly, and rewarding them should solve the problem.

Nope. In all the methods the horse goes onto the knee. You still have to release for the horse rocking back with the second method. As you can see, the horse demonstrating already knows how to bow, so he’s going to go into it fast. I also explained that the rope is the same as a hand holding up the leg, it just makes it easier on the back and you have have more leverage if you have one hopping around 🙂

@@SamVanFleet Makes sense!

Keep slowly increasing how long you ask her to stay down for. Just reward for her slightly touching at the start then raise your expectations

@Willa Eventing thank you so much! It still seems like he is a little bit anxious about being tapped with a crop or whip, would you suggest anything else? 😳

@Willa Eventing I agree! He’s an ottb so I’m sure somewhere along the line something went on that he’s thinking about, thanks so much and I’ll let you know how it goes!!☺️

@Willa Eventing little update!! We haven’t gotten it down yet but I can tell you that he’s definitely not scared of the crop 🤣 I can swing it all around and there’s no reaction, baby steps 😋

I had the same problem as you not for the bow but when training the spanish walk (since she already knew from the spanish walk it really helped with the bow) so I tried several things top and try and get her annoyed didn't work, tap her harder still didn't work. So I did several things that helped fix this. So when you tap and tap and tap they learn to ignore you and they sort of just zone out and get bored or distracted and they don't listen so first things first you have to get their attention otherwise you aren't gonna get far. What I did was I to took a riding crop and whacked my boot hard which brought her back to reality. This may sound like a mean thing to do but it really gets their attention back on you so now that you have their attention it's time to work on the foot problem so what I found that worked with my horse was I gave up on the whip and resulted in using my hand I started by just poking the back of the fetlock it's more sensitive there and she picked up her foot and the second she lifted it I stopped poking and told her what an amazing girl she was. Now I know that the fetlock isn't where you tap but trust me I'm getting to it. So then once she understands that I use the whip and do the same thing. Then I went back to my hand and did the same behind the knee. And then switched to the whip. And whenever she would zone out I'd whack my boot with the crop as a friendly reminder what we are focusing on. So then her feet got more sensitive to the whip and the best thing is is now I could progress to the bow, and the spanish walk which both require this action. I know this seems like a lot but it didn't take long for my Mare to understand this. This shouldn't take longer than a week for your horse to understand. I did two 5-10 minute sessions a day and she got it in 3 days. But it is so worth the wait because it also makes picking feet easier! Hope this helps!

So he can bow properly