Becoming Alpha by Lunging with Purpose
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The sound is not real good on this video, and partway through there’s quite a bit of wind. I apologize for that.
@karenrouth2056
2 ай бұрын
Ok no worries… don’t want to miss anything😂 you could maybe bury mic under your lovely beard? 🙈🤣
@dkstryker
2 ай бұрын
We're here to listen as deeply as we can so that isn't a problem! Thank you for this great video so far halfway through!
@HalfWarrior
2 ай бұрын
I could hear you just fine by adjusting my volume up a little bit. So interesting to learn how to do things that I can’t do (hemiplegic; and in a wheelchair); Regardless, it’s always a pleasure watching your videos Dewayne! 🫡👍🏻
@resipsaloquitur13
2 ай бұрын
Its the sound of outside. Some folks may have forgotten what thats like.
@bhagmeister
2 ай бұрын
You’re explanation of ‘shake out’ & horse instinct towards an Alpha came across loud & clear. Makes a lot of sense. Thnx.
I've never ridden horses, I have no interest at all. But there's something about Dewayne, I would listen to him talk about horse poop for 2 hours.
"Sombody worthy of obedience." So many folks expect blind obedience. That aint good. Follow blindly and you'll teach them to fall for anything. Im a single father to my daughter. This is a concept I work on daily. I want her to know what a good man is. So when she grows up, she might think twice about falling for a dud.
Dewayne: "He's not an alpha horse" Mouse: " What did you just say about me?" 🤣
I have learned an incomprehensible amount of wisdom from you that has truly changed my life. I caught high blood pressure early at 23 years old recently, specifically because of one of your videos where you discussed your personal experience with it, and now I am learning more about horses than I ever thought I could! You are truly a library filled with all the untapped humanity we all need in this world!! Thank you so much Dewayne!!!!
Keep the horsemanship videos coming! Love it, especially to see practical methods for the average rider. Would love to see a 3-4 video “tune up” series, maybe a follow up episode under saddle? Thanks for sharing.
The title made me laugh quite a bit, i forgot you do horse stuff too so i thought this was another life advice video
@mydearriley
2 ай бұрын
Peak men's health/fitness crossover
@RomanceDawn17
2 ай бұрын
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@kevinbenitez42
2 ай бұрын
Being alpha is how you exert power in a fair way
@mydearriley
2 ай бұрын
EXACTLY @@RomanceDawn17
@merko5877
2 ай бұрын
Why have you never been in a situation where there is absolutely an alpha?
Simple, effective, practical...i like this kind of horsemanship. Thank you, Sir.
It’s great to have a refresher course coming out of winter. I have a few that need to brought back to basics this spring as well
Thanks for doing a video on a problem that is very common in horses and not near as common to see in most youtube and instagram videos
I love this. I've recently been unwillingly obedient at work. I should take a lesson from this!
@user-mb1hg4qu9f
2 ай бұрын
Me too!😅
Love you Dewayne. Not the first time you’ve restated your wish to get back to horse topics….🐎 Absolutely agree with you on purposeful lunging. To perhaps add, I’m taught to treat my role on ground as little different than when I’m atop in the saddle. “Ground riding” if you like using similar rein control and lunging whip as leg pressure. Thanks for this valuable instruction.
@DryCreekWranglerSchool
2 ай бұрын
Very true. A rider cannot expect to have a greater role in the saddle then they do on the ground. Everything in the saddle begins on the ground. A timid handler on the ground will get pushed around by the horse, and then they will be timid as well on the back of the horse.
Glad to see you're planning on doing more horse videos, I really enjoy your approach to horsemanship.
Been following your life advice videos for some time now, I'm 25, very traditional, and getting ready to ride for the first time in just a few months, content is invaluable. Keep it up.
@resipsaloquitur13
2 ай бұрын
God speed, young man.
Excellent video Dewayne. The point you made about lunging being a mental activity is great advice that i havent heard enough people talk about. Ive seen lunging become this thing that people do on autopilot just because thats what they were taught to do, without understanding why. Thanks for the reminder
Beautiful creatures.. these training videos are such a great learning experience
You did a great job of making it clear what lounging is about in this situtation. Mindset and control verses treaching new things. I really enojoyed the geting back to outside and horsemanship videos. Keep them coming. Thanks
Amazing content. We always learn a lot from your knowledge.
Love this! Thank you for the lesson
Can’t thank you folks enough for this video, I have Mouse’s cousin Woodrow( Woody Blue Hancock) I have been doing the same “ exercise” with him because he has some VERY similar tendencies as your horse. Thank you for confirming that we are working in the correct direction. It is hard when you don’t have someone with similar style to watch and guide you. So very grateful for your guidance Dewayne.
Love this video. I always say I’m going to do groundwork to make sure his mind is right, connected to me. I always do this before getting on. It’s non negotiable. Thanks for reinforcing this.
Love your video. I have a Navaho mustang. She is learning to lunge. She has a habit to watch everything else but me. I have to bring back her attention to me. I thank you for the video.
Really interesting, well explained. Thank yo u. Can't wait for the next one.
I do this all the time. Not cause I have to anymore but to be consistent. My horse is calm and educated. But he sometimes decides he has a better idea. And will tend to think like your horse does. Gets lazy, wants to tune out and drop behind a horse. Starts drifting off and paying attention to other things besides me. So just doing what you are showing in this video. Truly gives the horse a chance to warm up and get relaxed and limber up before a long day. Also gives you both a chance to get connected before you get in the saddle and head out. I tack up and do it out in the open near the horse trailer, near his pasture and his pals. To remind him that when he’s with me and we’re heading out there is no other thing that is more important than the direction that I’m offering. This is spot on the proper way to lunge a horse. Like you said you are getting to the feet, the mind and a lot more. I’m still working on getting this without the halter and lead rope. True liberty. Cause the only time I use the halter and lead rope is when I am doing what you’re doing in the video. The rest of the time it’s liberty. I keep a four foot string I’ll tie around the neck if he’s not listening. But the goal this year is to get him to where he’s doing lunging with nothing else but my intent, body language and signal and further his training to the point where there’s no strings attached. Being a horseman is a journey that has no end destination. Just growth between the human and the horse. Love your videos and the message you have within your videos.
Thanks for demonstrating true patience and wisdom. Very informative video Dwayne, I'm an outdoorsman, not a cowboy but an ironworker .
That was beautiful- he seems so well trained! You are a great trainer!! Enjoyed the video. My second horse I had when I was a kid was a cutting horse that had a back leg damage/problem/ he was so well trained it was a dream riding him! Those were the days ❤
A master at work👍👍👍
Another great episode, back with horses. Thanks.
Dewayne, I love watching your horsemanship videos, please keep them coming.
Thank You for all of your horse videos, many of Your lessons give huge food for thought for someone who is european and learns riding european way. Whole new perspective :)
I don´t understand anything about horses. But dewayne tells it in a way even I am interested in it
Such a great teaching . You made lots of good points that others usually don’t . Explaining that lunging and running in circles is pointless . I have ask trainers for years why do we do that ?. Almost all of them do . And I never get a clear answer 😗💭 I have never run my young horse like that . Bear is 2 almost 3. And we now just started doing exactly what you just taught . Thank you for giving me confidence that we have been doing the right thing . Laura 💜Bear
Such a great timing. I was feeling extremely sad today, had really bad and toxic day because foolish people. Thanks the inspiration 🎉❤
@AreRisnes
2 ай бұрын
Buy acrylic paints and start making yourself seriously busy painting abstract art all the time: #Escape #Through #Art.
I enjoy your channel. I just ordered “The Log of a Cowboy”. If you haven’t read “We Pointed Them North” by E.C. (Teddy Blue) and Helena Huntington Smith, I think you would enjoy the recollections of a “real” trail rider and cow punch. Me: 70, 9 mules, three horses.
Liked Mouse from his first video appearance! Thanks for the great reminders in this video.
Just lunged my ornery mares earlier this morning. Good to see that some folk like yourself take lunging seriously still. A lot of the folk that I have worked with in recent years invest in the mindless lunging, rather than building on the foundation and rhythm between horse and horseman. It all starts at ground level. Well said.
Awesome Video, Dwayne! Thank you, Mama, Mouse, and Biscuit.
Sooo good. Thank you
Thank you for this video.
Great video. What people need to hear. Almost exactly what I have said in several of my videos.
Great video! I could it hear it just fine
Thanks for this video!
Using the round pen and lunge line re-establishing dominance. Re-establishing the “pecking order”. Great video Dwayne. I can see your point how he’s gotten away with little things with the students which turns into big things. He easily transitioned into obeying your command(the lunge line end or quirt end) whether you were forward of the shoulder ( the brake) or behind the shoulder (the gas). I like his color. I’m thinking grulla. Thanks for sharing with us, Sir!
As a new horse owner, I'm looking forward to more horsemanship videos!
Great video. I found it very helpful. Nice grulla.
This video was amazing!
I needed this today. My horse understands my anxiety means she can scare me and I will go easy on her.
Super video!!
Big Thanks for the inspiration Greetings From Denmark 🇩🇰 I’ll take this with me. My Norwegian Fjord Horse and I, Want an attitude that make sense👍 ❤ Love Your Channel 🤠
would love to see you do parenting videos, I really liked your comment on how you'd treat unwilling obedience as disobedience, would love if you could go into that and similar things further!
"Movin' the feet is magic" ... Absolutely right
a metaphor received Dewayne!🙏
Thank you for the advice that unwilling obedience is to be treated as disobedience. I cannot be satisfied simply by fact he doesn’t try to swing his back end at me. One day I was thrilled when trainer called to suggest next day due to cold (Texas cold, nothing you’d notice up there!). I’d been lunging him and we’d started with galloping on ~25’ line. At first I was satisfied that he was circling without pulling and that I was able to slow him to canter. Eventually we managed to do a couple reasonable loops, but I figured that if I’d been riding I’d have little to no control and it would be unsafe. He was simply not gong to listen to me. Next day was far better, though I still got some minor bucking effort - stressful but manageable ride.
Interesting. Thx.
Great video
Thank you. Never been on a horse interesting :)
Awesome👌❤
Always enjoy all your videos ❤️. Has Mama decided about starting working leather projects.??? Would have some extra tools I could help her get started ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I learnt to ride, bareback, on the end of a lunging rope. Eventually we were put over jumps, bareback, too. Learnt to fall off, learnt to get back on.
a lot in common with K9 training, thanks
Good morning here from Romania I greet you with respect Marius 🙋🤠🇹🇩🕳️
Very nice ,
THIS MAN IS A VERY SMART INTELLIGENT WISE HUMAN BEING.
Absolutely DeWayne, Leadership is about influence and controlled movement.
That horse is a beauty. I can see why you were keen to buy him. It could make for a good video series, to see you break a new horse.
Well, I’ve been riding Hancock for the last … almost twenty years. But they have been from the same Ranch. They all have a spark. But with all blood lines, it starts from the ground up and you’re doing what I think it is the right way.
Dewayne , in a herd of cattle their is the same order. Dad's comment was the boss runs the feed bunk.
Glad you're back on horses. Admittedly, i stopped watching your videos for awhile because i come here for horse stuff. I was subbed before you had less than 500 subscribers. Looks like y'all are doing well since moving. I was in your old area of Tennessee just the other week. Did you ever try out those cigars i gave ya?
I love your psychology with animals. How about spoiled cats?
Always take away so many gems from these videos and use the horsemanship and horses as a metaphor for things or people in my life.
For horse and rider to be in the right frame of mind doing it right on the ground getting to know each other before you get respect riding I would think after this chatt If you learn ground work well together then you should not have to lunge before you ride just walking them to the riding area I would think unless they have a huge amount of energy for some reason
I don’t have horses but great parenting advice
Great content. Thank you! On a side note I notice there is no snow left in your area. Is that normal for this time of the year in your region?
Damn Mr.Dewayne you look cool and badass like Arthur Morgan from rdr2 , great video loved it ! ✨✨
I’m happy to hear the professional gets dizzy sometimes. Any tips on how to prevent that would be welcomed.
@DryCreekWranglerSchool
2 ай бұрын
Stop spinning in circles 😁
Mouse is tellin' me, "Sit back, I got this!". Especially, if he has his alpha there too.
Nice
Don't really have much interest in horse riding or training, but it's a pleasure to watch your calm and measured approach to animal psychology and using induction. Truly an independent learner. See that horse? That's how redpill content creators see KZreadrs, except with much less finesse than Dewayne.
My Dad would tell us to do something and SOME HOW he knew we'd poke out our lip and within seconds he's say "Suck in that lip!" and IT WAS ON!😂
'Any physical accomplishment must be directly related to attitude and mind.' That sounds strangely Musashi like, hehe.
How's the book coming along?
What denim jacket do you wear and wore in your campfire coffee video? I like it
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Dewayne, great show; been a subscriber many months now. A QUESTION: where can I get one of those brown cardigan sweaters, brother? I'm a couple of years older than you and that thing looks great on you (so I hope it'll look at least half as good on me!).
@DryCreekWranglerSchool
2 ай бұрын
Thank you! I ordered it from Filson. I love it
@applepie2775
2 ай бұрын
Thank you, sir!@@DryCreekWranglerSchool
Excellent horsemanship
Funny, I thought by the looks of his stout legs and build he was a Hancock bred horse before you mentioned it.
We had a Hancock/king bred horse in the 70's. He was a little hot. He was always a good horse. You just had to be awake.
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I have some relatives that want me to ride their gelding and mare to get some of the rust off of them and get them active. These horses haven't been riden in over two years though. How long and how many sessions of lunging would be recommended before riding them? Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated.
@DryCreekWranglerSchool
2 ай бұрын
Each situation, and each horse is individually different. Just mind the attitude of the horse, and they will tell you when they are ready. The fact that they have not been ridden in over two years is not in and of itself and indication that they will be difficult. When they are willing and calm and listening to you on the ground, then you can attempt from the saddle. That could be the first session, or it could be after many sessions. There’s just no way to know.
Horses are very intelligent. They understand.
Can you talk about having patience ? I don't have it, I want it, I need it but I always rush things that shouldn't have to be rushed.
Longing them to take the edge off only makes them more fit. Over time it defeat the purpose.
Any advice on how to get a lazy stubborn horse who’s had way too much time off to move AT ALL on a lunge line? He will just stand there and stare at me. Doesn’t matter how much energy I put into it or how hard I’m cracking the whip, he won’t even walk for me 🤦♀️ and he knows how to. Others lunge him well. But I’m very new to this and he’s discovered he can get away with far too much lately. Trying to take that back.
@DryCreekWranglerSchool
2 ай бұрын
You have to make sure you’re in the right position, standing at his shoulder, like I showed in the video, and then you have to start applying energy to his shoulder. You have to find what works for you and him when it comes to the energy. That might be the tale of the lead rope like I’m using in this video, or it might be a flag. If the energy by itself does not get his attention, you will have to start making physical contact. Usually a tap on the shoulder with a flag will be enough, but if not, you’ll have to tap a little harder. Whatever energy that you use, as soon as he takes a step forward, you have to cease the energy. If he stops moving, you go back to the energy. Eventually, he will figure out that if he wants you to stop with the energy at his shoulder, he will keep moving.
@destiny439207
2 ай бұрын
@@DryCreekWranglerSchool ok I’ll work on this..thanks so much for replying!
No disrespect Dwayne!Good video.Mouse looks a little off in the back end?
@DryCreekWranglerSchool
2 ай бұрын
He slipped in some rocks a couple days ago, open some steep country here at the ranch. He still a little tender from that.
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I dont know anything about horses but, if the horse is new to you and is doing everything right do you have to work to throw him off track so you can then try to prove your the alpha to him/her? Is that necessary in order to know that they are under your control and broken of any free thinking? Or is that sort of training strictly reactionary?
@DryCreekWranglerSchool
2 ай бұрын
Good question. There is no need to correct when there is no bad behavior. If the new horse gets to the point that it shows me that it is not willing to listen to me me, then I will begin correcting the incorrect behavior. And I do that both for his well-being as well as for mine.
Unless, I have it wrong, they were great cow horses but...hah a mind of their own...some other lines were buckers
@DryCreekWranglerSchool
2 ай бұрын
You don’t have it wrong 😆
@drycreekwranglerschool, any advice on how to handle a horse’s death?
@DryCreekWranglerSchool
2 ай бұрын
It is not easy. You have to understand that only something that has the ability to bring great pleasure will have the ability to bring great grief. Remember the joy that they brought you, and be thankful for that time.
@Jbdunham
2 ай бұрын
@@DryCreekWranglerSchool, thanks for the good advice. Just lost my horse, Amigo, today. Been trying to focus on the good memories.
Would training like this be beneficial for donkeys and llamas?
If you have nothing to do with horses this video is still gold.