The TRT method Series Episode #7 - The explosive gelding (part 1) 

I love the precision with which Tristan works. Iron Man goes from being on his toes to seeking comfort and understanding just a little bit better what life is all about. Kudos to the owner for recognizing when to ask for help and for being prepared to be shown on film doing it🤗💝

Phenomenal! Tristan, clear, logical, sound and progressive techniques with an obvious change. You are a Blessing to horses and horse people in the whole world !!!

Nice, the expression in his eyes and his face became much softer towards the end:-).

Nice work, small step by small step. One thing that must be realized in animal husbandry...in a breeding program you get what you select for. Many people select strictly for physical ability & conformation and forget about temperment, thinking that you just need to find a magical system or person to transform the horse. Temperment *has* to be one of the criteria in any thoughtful breeding program.

All horses are different, just a round pen won't fix everything. This method and soft join up helped my crazy warmblood mare tremendously, every being should be treated as an individual. We aren't all the same.

Love how you are so patient with horses and your way of training is amazing. thanks for your videos

I absolutely love the Jefferey's method. It is probably one of the best ways to calm down nervous horses.

No wonder horses are used in therapy for people who are " dysfunctional" They are the teachers. I'm hooked after 2 videos.

Great video. Superb horse. Love the way T goes back to beginning. Horses mature at such different rates whether they’ve had the time put in or not. But he’s sweet natured, intelligent and wants to please. Amazing movement. What potential! With time he could be an incredible dressage horse. Comments on his neck shape- come on, for a horse who’s done very little, he’s in amazing shape! It’ll come! Owner- sounds nervous but she’s talking to a trainer and on video. I’d sound nervous too but wouldn’t be nervous around horses normally. Crikey, sooo much judgement in many of the other replies!

Fascinating how his eyes went sleepy at a point, just like the 'vertical' mare and I'm sure as I watch more, I'll see it in all the horses under your tutelage.

What comes to my mind is that he must have been kept in a stall, a lot, that can dumb down a young horse. It is like keeping a human child in a box, taking him out for a bit everyday, putting him back, and then expecting the child to be knowledgeable about life, his life, and be as mentally mature as another less confined child would be. We dumb down horses, than expect them to grow mentally...

I love how you help Iron Man to trust and think. I am here to learn more so I can guide my reactive young horse better. Thank you.🐴

I'm super relaxed after watching that too. What an amazing process. Beautiful animal and care for his speed of learning and emotional comfort. The way this guy talks about horses makes them sound very human in his eyes.

It is so refreshing to see someone like yourself without all the various sticks with rags and flags but with just a long line and schooling whip. None of the pushing and shoving, hauling the head around etc. and the one size fits all mentality. I was always taught to weigh up the horse you are working with first by touching and talking to it before beginning training and to respect that every horse is an individual in its own skin, so you work to the individual's needs.

I have a 1 year old that I take small amount of time "training" with everyday. it is really just me handling her asking small things and then building on that. I love ,Love keeping in my mind "teach my Filly the tools to cope" thank you so much! I will keep watching and listening to you.

Lovely young gelding. Wondering how much turnout the horses in the fancy barns actually get? That's a big, powerful boy with tons of energy to burn off. Horses need to be allowed to simply be a horse... in a pasture with his buddies every day, for their mental health & happiness. Thank you for being a kind, new generation (horse centric) Trainer! I've always been about communication, partnership & mutual respect between horse & rider/owner & only 100% positive training!

I love watching great training videos. Hate all the bashing comments below, though. If you made a positive comment about training, I applaud you. If you had to make ugly judgemental comment about owner when she is just trying to do her best, you are way worse off because you need to go get some basic groundwork yourself & relearn some manners & how to treat other people.

That horse is a big baby. Not judging. Just his face at the end. Really intriguing about how the horses learn to.be in their body. Interesting too he makes is clear in a nice way that his owner has work to do as well.

Great explanation Tristan, good energy flowing and calm. I look forward to more videos. Thanks!!

5:37 ; "He can kick when he gets insecure" and the camera quietly moves to BESIDE the horse vs sort of behind the horse. Haha. Smart camera operator. ;)

I agree with everything you said Megan Van Vleck. I think a ton of groundwork is so important simply because horses don't see with their eyes the way we do. Gaining their trust on the ground is the most important thing you can do for your horse. This guy seems to skip a lot of groundwork and actually the horse looks confused and tense.

That was just beautiful to watch and listen to, I learned so much. Will watch again.

Enjoyed this episode. I have a 11 years old mare that is the same...have worked with her for over a year and had 10 short rides on her until a lightning storm put her back to square one and more spooky and insecure than she was before...will remember this episode when I start over with her in the Spring. Thank you

What a gorgeous horse!! And lovely work!

Another extraordinary display of mutual understanding and harmony 👏🏻

I would agree he is not explosive, his color is beautiful, just need some training, good to watch. None of us know it all.

I have a spoky mare and a gelding that is bit picky listening i absolutly love these. Im going to take so much back to my horses so excited to see how they and i do together as a team

So impressed by your teaching ability with this young horse, thank you Tristan Auzzie boy

Tristan did great 👍 I'm very proud of him❤. Great job tKory...as usual. Have a blessed day 😇

amazing how quick they learn huh! Im gonna try this groundwork with my horse, who does move away when I try to mount even though Im always gentle and always use a mounting block... teaching her to park in and present the saddle sounds like a rgreat thing

I wish I had Iron Man dilemma. Oh! what a beauty. He really what's go go with that energy. What a power house, bet he could jump one. Great work guys...

This guy is amazing!

Love the way you train

What a sweet horse.

Very well done!

Can I ask how he got trimmed up so nicely, including a bang tail, if he is so spooky? 🤔 🤔

Watch closely(closer!) he conducts a week's worth of work in the first 30 seconds of contact... Sometimes these trainers forget how much they know and do!

It is significant the horse had no external cause for the explosion. As an inexperienced horse, or even a more highly trained one, he is forced behind the bit and crammed into a frame he can't handle. Whether this gentleman can make him calmer or not, the solution is a better dressage trainer who works with classical principles.

Stuck in stalls! Enough said.

What a good man.

Your timing is pretty impeccable! Very logical process. I see a lot of moments where the horse would like to connect with you. Have you tried responding to that during training at the moments of rest and if that changes the results?

Rare person in english tight pants who think like a horse :) i like it. Usually i met english riders whose are too much focus on sport than on mental balance of their horses Work on issues of horse manners.... Nono... That what,, low,, rider do. Im a GP rider i dont have to... :D hahaha Thanks for this video a working horses good way :)

Wonderful to watch. A couple of things, Tristan, that is a very tall horse. I’m downright impressed you can get up on his back without assistance. Who says white guys can’t jump? Secondly, my god, what a beautiful horse. What do you call his color? Golden chestnut (that’s what I would call it)? He’s stunning.

Brilliant thank you

It's the greatest gift for the horse.

Excellent!

Please tell your videographer to export your audio in Mono. The stereo sound on RU-vid is really distracting having half the audio in one ear and half in the other. Very weird.

A lot of people think just because they throw a saddle on and put a bridle on, that the horse is immediately trained. They didn't have the horse's respect, he needs a lot ground of work. He needs to be desensitized. When she said "She want to sell him" that felt like a real punch in the stomach to me. No matter what horse you get, all horses need to be trained with proper ground work. Move their feet forwards back left and right on the ground before you start doing this in the saddle.

I'm not familiar with this trainer's method, so I won't comment on the assessment. But this beautiful horse deserves better than this owner, so it's good she's going to sell him. (Note she doesn't have time for her horses -- plural. Not just Iron Man.) Right away the trainer notices quite a bit of scar tissue on the horse's neck. WTH? Why wasn't that pursued and explained? Scar tissue means some sort of trauma, that may or may not have been treated. Quite a lot of scar tissue suggests not, because if it had been sutured there would have been a detectable line where the sutures were, not a mass of scar tissue. Maybe they come back to that at the end of the video; I haven't quite finished it yet.

Wow.. So nice.. Its all good by training.. Trt method.. I really want to learn this method.. But unfortunately I have no horse.. But l want to learn training skills

Very enjoyable.

3:20 When you ride your horse in that head position (behind the vertical) the horse is partly blinded to anything in front of them. And he spooked, the minute the person standing there, to him, suddenly came into his field of vision. I see so many people saying horses are spooky, but have no idea how the eyes of the horse work. They just assume that there are only 2 small blindspots, directly in front and behind the horse. A horse have a side view, which is especially built for them grazing, and it is only really effective, when the horse can lift and move its head, to take a better look. Turning to see with both eyes, or moving their head to get a sharper picture. When you ride a horse behind the vertical, or in other ways, restrict their head and therefore their eyesight, you might end up with horses that spook, as things seem to suddenly appear, because they didn't get to see it, before it was in a distance, which is to close for comfort, and they therefore will react, putting distance between themselves and that, or throw themselves sideways, or sling their head up, all to see if they are in any danger. Especially if they don't have a trusting relationship with you, and therefore reading and trusting your energy, instead of vision.

In other words, don't rush groundwork!

SUPER!

This horse is not explosive. This is a green horse, with no groundwork and no desensitizing work/training...He didn’t just spook and take off cantering out of nowhere, for no reason...anyone with even just a small amount of correct knowledge and understanding of a horse/horsemanship could have called what caused the horse to spook 3:05 minutes into this video. He did not just “take off” for zero apparent reason...he was spooked when the person standing in the center of the arena caught his eye... I can bet that every time he so called randomly “explodes” it is a similar situation. Ground work and desensitizing a horse to as many things as you can from the ground , earning the respect and trust of the horse before ever getting on their back is much easier for the horse and rider. This is how some horses get a bad rep, being called crazy/explosive/aggressive/ etc... when the problem is far from what the rider and a lot of the times from what a trainer who has no clue, or sadly has a clue and just wants your money says the problem is. One it is NEVER the horses fault. Two it is 9 times out of 10 rider/trainer (lack of training or desensitizing) at fault when something happens. Pressure and release. Timing of the release. Clear direction of what you are asking of the horse and releasing when the horse gives you the right answer. Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult/more work...

very cool/ I have a mare very similar in her behavior.

Soy un admirador tuyo de Menorca . Porqué hay vídeos que no se pueden sub titular? Gracias

I would, as well as agree with everyone else (who is experienced) suggest that he may have a pinched nerve since he bolted on a circle. Of course horses new in training , tend to blot and when they start to canter. Cant do it in a trot.

Perhaps he would be more relaxed if he wasn’t kept behind bars in a stable, isolated from other horses.

There's a horse that would benefit from more turnout. He's still learning to balance himself but is underdeveloped in the neck and so he panics occasionally.

Have you got a follow up video of Iron Man ? Such a sweet boy

Beautiful horse wrong owner ever heard that before!! 🤯🤯👏👏🇦🇺🇦🇺

Umm.. do you work with people by chance? 🤔I definitely need this type of training! lol My therapist is pretty good, but results in an hour would be great! 🤣

How do rule out pain or physical issues on the first approach?

He could easily do this stretch and, hind leg, work under-saddle. So lower and lenght'n as he bends to each circle. It looked as if he was ridden with heavy hands, just prior to bolting. Would love to know what he's doing now.

What breed is Ironman? Can someone please tell me? Thank you.

that was a beautiful horse , just waiting to be petted ,,

My mare did a lot of what this horse is doing. She would always try her best but it’s like a flick of a switch, like in that ladies video they have gone into flight mode and it’s as though they are in a trans and then a few minutes later they are back to sort of normal.I got a vet to look at her and she was actually diagnosed with horners syndrome

Haha, I need better self management too!

Power to the problem for this horse is that his heels have been trimmed out. This is very uncomfortable as everything is being pulled down and under. Look at understanding the heel but just video on RU-vid.

Poor horses - no wonder they run off!

I wouldn't mind having that trainer in my backyard , cute as ,,

there was a sound that spooked him.

Watching this with headphones is a pain in the ass. Voices constantly only in one earpiece, for the rest great video

Oh know I just heard the word "broken in" that means break the horses spirit.

*If you don’t have enough time for your horse, then you need to give your horse to someone else who has enough time, so that you have enough time for all of them!*

wish the sound came out of both sides of my speakers, but it only comes out the right side.

No wonder they act like they do - being stalled in a closed in stall with no ventilation. Why do you do this? Horses need fresh air and room to move .... ): A solid walled stall is inhumane ....

She has no time for the horse. She's the only problem.

Broke in last Winter, late allready. 🤔🤨🤦🏼‍♀️

Bottom line -- the horse is spoiled. He's locked up at the poll, too, which is the one place you want suppleness.

I hear the owner in the background laughing like "oh how cute!" They are not cute! They are not puppies! They are highly intelligent animals with a highly developed nervous system! And Women, they are not the answer to your problems in life!

I don't like the excuse I don't have the time, If you didn't have the time don't have the animal. My horse came from people who did not have the time, Becuase they did not work with him he came with all sorts of bad habits that could lead to health problems.

I would love to learn but the audio is so poor, I cannnot hear the instructor

Georgous horse !... Was he a race horse ?.. Go ahead and sell him. He is to much for you. Eventers..please buy this Georgous boy. I already own an OTTB like this.

why can't i hear him talking at certain times during videos?

Hahaha 😂 funny man he is not sure what he is doing once horse come back home every thing will ☄ comes back 🔙

Horrible music! The horse is nervous and bored in the stall alone all day. You an see form his eyes he is very nervous.

I personally think this horse would benefit from a WHOLE LOT more ground work and practice with sensitizing and de sensitizing...the horse seems a little pushy and too flighty a round pen and intense lunging should help him settle in and learn to use the thinking side of his brain...a horse should not even be introduced the idea of being ridden until he has mastered the thinking side of his brain from the ground and learn that humans, equipment and touch are not going to hurt him but guide him to making the best decisions....this is from my own personal experience

The more I see the more awful - a whole barnful of horses in solid walled facility - just like a prison ... awful people treating horses like this

It's never the horse, it's the human who push and push and can't or will not respect the horse (as an individuel) Young horses don't understand there body's well, do groundwork first, you learn the horse and the horse learns you and his body better. The old fashion way, ride forward, let the horse surch his balance instead of push him in a frame.

'large explosion' He does not have a fair trusted leader. One that can move his feet, change his direction and pace. If you are going to work with him you must fairly establish yourself as the leader in his mind. Then you can make progress. You are forgetting that once you step into that arena with him, you become another horse. He will test you to see whether you are higher or lower in status. Don't be lower. Do join up and follow through in the round pen to begin setting your leadership position in his mind.

So basically she wants all the groundwork (hardwork) done for her so she can just jump on & go & everything will be perfect.The poor horse doesn't know what she wants him to do because ...she hasn't got the time, what a crock of bs. :(

My gelding is both better and worse than this horse. He's not nearly as skittish, but when he bolts, it's a true 0-60 bolt. Edit: Been two years. Still isn’t rideable. In the mean time I trained a chestnut pony mare.

What a beautiful sweet creature . He is young and isolated :/ to buy and sell animals or force them to do what you need them to do, is slavery. Yes, it's good to feed him and train him with a patient, knowledgable human . But, still, he was a baby when taken away from his mom and sold to these people who have no time for him. Poor baby in that small stall, with no friends and the lady being so overly nervous, it made me tense just watching her body language. I'm not even talking about how nervous she sounds. The confidence and calmness, understanding Tristan shows him, relaxed him. Just imagine, going somewhere, forced to see someone you don't know and right away he starts touching you all over. Any normal human would think that person is a pervert. Wouldn't you get angry, or run away or smack that person, or at least yell at him/her or push away, curse them out or report them ? Way too touchy for a first visit. Total invasion of personal space. Its abusive

This gelding is not flexing well. Rushed under saddle training. Too little ground work training. Look at the Handy Horseman. Clinton Anderson, John O'Leary, Pat Parelli, Why working/mounting from nearside not both sides?

Horrible music

Nobody should take on a horse that doesn't have the time to work with it !

зачем так мерзко чмокать лошади в ухо!!

This horse has pain issues,A fact,and if u take him to a good chiropractor, he be a new horse ,, all This is doing is teaching him to cope with pain and to stay calm about it ,,y not sort the pain first and the rest will Come naturally, ,,Check out Ed Coroters on RU-vid, ,