Hats off to Kevin for the cajones to send in the video. His willingness to learn is teaching me a thing or two as well. Mr. and Mrs. Puckett, you are the best. Thanks for all your help.
Pat, I believe Sticks is listening to more than your skeleton. When you joked about milking him he swung his head around and it looked like a classic "what the heck" response! LOL! Love your sense of humor, too.
Thank heaven for brave souls like Kevin and for great teachers like Pat! thank to Deb for all of her hard work bringing these videos to the world. Your videos are always a treasure trove of gold but the last few have been platinum! Thank you so much! From New England, with great admiration.
Hello. I had such a good chuckle over, "He has so much cow I may have to start milking him." Of course I am here to let you know geldings don't give milk! I love your teaching, it is to the point, so clear. You can see your good work in the horses you ride. Like us, horses too, 'just want to know.'
My experience w horses (limited, but still...) is that the slightest breakthrough or even just a nice ride is about as good as it gets in my world. I'm so thrilled you had that experience with Styx following the bull and the lightbulb going on. Must have been quite a feeling!
Great video. Love seeing Styx, he is such a beautiful horse. I am re-starting an off track thoroughbred and hope that maybe one day he will be half the horse Styx is!
Hello Mr Favors, I've been horseback all but 2 or three years of my life, and I watched you helping a friend gained my respect and appreciate your knowledge. My question is I've got a horse (8/9 year old) that can do it all, but ever once in a while he twitches them ears and is out to try something and most the time he seems to enjoy his work? Keep your coffee warm and you feet dry, best to you from wey down in the thickets of TX
Great video Pat-need more people with practical explanations of how and why to get a horse to do a job-great advice on backing and standing reins down-I actually drop my reins as I tap my horses neck when I just want a nice easy stop from my seat and he knows to stop and rest--people look and me like I am from another planet when I explain this-I like your videos as they reinforce in me that there are others like me put there training horses and I am not alone with my ideas and techniques and relationships with horses-and like you I tell it the way the horse sees it matter of factually whether people like it or not-my riding partners is therefore small lol
Pat & Deb, keep up the videos they are great. You made a comment I disagree with regarding spurs. In my mind an English spur is more, as you say, “a weapon”. They don’t have a rowel to distribute the pressure, both from rolling and multiple contact points. English spurs just poke like a pencil. Any spur can be a weapon in the wrong feet. But western spurs get misunderstood because of the big pointy rowels. These would be less or more distributed pressure when used correctly.
Well Pat, if you wouldn’t have become horseman you could have been a ‘stand-up-comic’. Your timing in delivering your dry humor is better then some big name professionals. Vegas could have been at your feet! I sure liked the way you addressed the issue of ‘Neck Reining’. When I make similar comments like you about that I am usually met with big disbelieving eyes and slack jaws. I wish more people would address that issue the same way! I also liked your comments linking between the foundation of a horse to it’s capability to change leads. Another thing you showed here is how you set the reins down on your horses neck to let them know that they are ‘off-the-clock’. I don’t quite do it they way you do. What I do is I set the knuckles of my rein hand on top of their neck in front of the saddle with the reins on slack. When my knuckles come off and I sit up they know break time is over and I get the pre-signal effect before the reins possibly become engaged. Please keep your videos coming and many thanks for the effort Deb and you put into them! 👍🤠
I'm not agreeing on the English spurs comment. I think they are far worse while looking tiny and innocent. Since they are like a thorn, not with a wheel, you puncture, put pressure on a little area without the colling effect. But off course, like everything else, the rider desides how the tool is used. 😉 By the way, love your videos. ❤ I used to ride my Oldenburger with a Hackemore, he was schooled very well in both dressage and jumping and you could ride him with absolutely everything, or nothing. 😉 With age 26 he still did flying lead change series just to keep his body fitt. Anyway, I fell in love with the old California style and since I was riding western as a kid, I found a bosal maker in Germany (I am living in Norway) who made me 2 custom bosals for my boy. Sadly I lost him 2 years ago, shitt that horses don't last forever 😢 And now I have a 3,5 year old Døl, a Norwegian light draft horse. I bought him as a yearling, more or less untouched, untrained but used to humans. He was not halter broke, couldn't lead etc. I trained him for driving, both wagon and sleights and he pulled some logs. So a workhorse. But I like riding and he seems to be bothered a lot while teething and constantly plays with his duffle bit. 🙈 I put him into my old boys Hackemore, lucky me the bosal fits just right. And he seems to like it. We will see where we go from here, but I plan to introduce him to your log exercise from the ground and taking in account your basic tips for the riding foundation. But we have time, I probably had less than 30 rides on him over the last 6 month. The thing is, it's not so easy when you have a horse you can ride with a thought, a horse that knows you in and out for 17 years and fits like a glove. And then go to a baby, who doesn't know, doesn't understand and I'm not a horse trainer, I never had a colt. But I'm learning and trying my best and my little boy is doing the same. So we are on our way, even that it's not straight 😅
I am fearful of riding again after a couple of falls. I can't seem to find consistent seat advice. 80% of weight in stirrups? 20% in stirrups? Squeeze with thighs? Don't squeeze? I'm just getting so uncertain about when all these different advices apply and getting more fearful/uncertain what I'm supposed to be doing.
You need to relax. I know that's difficult at times but that is what your questions are telling me. The purpose of the stirrups is simply to hold your toes up while your heels reach lightly for the ground. Not bearing down on your stirrups. You should not squeeze with your thighs unless you are trying to ask the horse to do something. If you are always squeezing, two things will happen. First, your horse will wonder what is wrong which will make him nervous and feed your fear. Second, he will eventually ignore your leg because your tension becomes just background noise instead of communication. If you are always putting pressure in your stirrups, you are lifting your seat bones out of the saddle. Your seat bones should be the basis for communicating with your horse. To see what a good seat looks like, watch Indian Relay Races. I'm serious. These guys gallop race horses bareback. They float with their horses. Your second assignment would be to trot everywhere you can while posting or in two point. To really get a good seat, try to find someone in your area who gives lunge lessons. Lunge lessons consist of a gentle horse being lunged by a trainer while the student sits in the saddle with no reins and eventually no stirrups. I've heard nobody gives this type of lesson anymore but you might luck out. Good luck!
LOL!! Can I come over and watch when you go to milkin' Styx? You should sell tickets to that rodeo, Pat. Styx is one handsome dude. Great video, Pat. I learned a lot and had some good laughs, too. And ... those are some really handsome chaps. (I know they're not chaps, but I can't think of the correct name right now.) Thanks, again, to the both of you. Good stuff.
Thanks , your Poutine comment made me chuckle . Here in Canada " poutine" is a delicious dish of French fries , gravy and cheese curds . The other poutine is less appreciated .
@@vicki1141 true - there is a restaurant next to my work called “poutine” and it sells … poutine. Stupid people tagged it thinking it was a Russian restaurant. I guess it shows how some war can start🤔the poutine you mentioned is much easier to kill - just eat it !
There is a website that scrolls at the bottom of the screen at the end of each and every video. There is a clickable link in the description to every video as well.
If you have something specific you want Pat to see, email me at debpuckett@gmail.com and I’ll give you the details on how this works. We’re still fine tuning this new deal so hang in there with us. If I recall, you already sent us a trailer loading video!
In order to get more views your title shouldn't be response to Kevin... But the content of your video. For example if Kevin's horse is spooky... Your titke should be : "how to fix a spooky horse (responding Kevin)" This way you'll get more views from people looking to correct or comprehend a specific subject. 😉
Pat, are you sure you aren't too fat for this comparatively lightweight horse. We forget how we put on weight over the years, time for something more weight carrying for you I think.
Deb Puckett here. I must say that your comment is not only rude but unwarranted. Chinaco is going to mature to 17+ hands. If he were shod, he would wear a size 1 horse shoe which means he has good bone. Pat weighs in at 200 pounds. At 5’ 11” and 72 years young, I’d say that is a pretty good match. A man who has ridden horses all of his life sets a horse in an extremely balanced way and is more attuned to the way his horse moves under him than the average rider. So, no, my husband is not “too fat” for this horse. And to put this comment in a public forum when I bet you wouldn’t say this to his face says more about you than about him.
