Some horses are just born more alert and therefore more likely to be spooky, especially when taken out alone. If you want a bombproof horse, start with the right horse. Don't pick the high headed horse that notices everything, pick the one who doesn't even look up when a big truck goes by with a rattling load and no muffler. I have a lifetime of horse experience, almost all of it solo riding and some horses will forever be on red alert. Choose the one who ignores gunfire, traffic, deer, whatever. Happy and safe riding to all.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

10 ай бұрын

Thank you and happy and safe riding to you.

@modocroughstock5700

6 ай бұрын

Good points, bloodlines, breeding plays a part for sure..

@modocroughstock5700

6 ай бұрын

Videos so good, I review a few times each.. still know alot less than most real horseman and women

And the greatest of those is trust. If your horse trusts you they will do anything for you.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

10 ай бұрын

And trust comes from consistency

Years back I attended a clinic being given by a famous trainer who asked the audience what they'd do if while out riding alone they came out of the woods into a small clearing by a road & saw a rattling dump truck with its load covering tarp flapping in the wind coming towards them. He got the usual sort of answers about dismounting, circling the horse, etc. & then he called on me. I said I'd stop facing the road, pitch the horse slack & light a cigarette. The audience laughed. He didn't, he asked me why I'd do that & I explained that assuming this wasn't my first ride on this horse it would know that a stop, totally slack reins & a cigarette signaled a nice long air break for him & he'd best take full advantage of it because we'd go right back to work as soon as I was done with my smoke. I'm sure it wasn't exactly the answer he was looking for, but he liked it well enough because, as you say, consistency cures a whole lot of ails. Consistency in any form builds walls around a horse that make it feel safe & confident in any situation. Bombproof.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

10 ай бұрын

I love your answer and you are 100 percent correct in my book. I had a real life situation on a three year old one time involving a train coming behind me and a cliff on the other side. IT was a situation that would either work or kill us both so I just relaxed determined to meet St. Peter with clean shorts. The Filly grabbed one a little and when I didn't she relaxed and kept trotting between the train and the cliff till the train passed. Its all that could be done. Thanks for the comment .

Probably the best explanation of what a broke horse is I ever heard

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

thank you

Raised one between a daycare center and a rifle range, only thing he was ever scared of was an ostrich!!! Hahaha

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

7 ай бұрын

Ill bet that is the truth!

Good morning everybody thanks for coming over to the channel today... All A- I comment punch and go.. working.. great video

Came here to comment that even me not having the experience, i have noticed that in 4 years of consistent handling, my horse is less bothered by XYZ. As I fine tune my leadership, that is what is helping my once reactive, high whorled (just watched that vid) horse. Thank u for another great vid!

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

11 ай бұрын

constancy is the key. Good job and thanks for the comment

Excellent explanation. Would it be a fair assessment in a way to say that to make a bomb proof horse you have to be a bombproof rider? He knows and he has learned that he can trust you, and as you said, he knows you’re not going to get him in a wreck.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

yes I think that is a really good way of putting it. Wish I had thought of that.

@Inca1122

11 ай бұрын

I too love this explanation. Thank u!

Great explanation. Trust on both sides ive always thought.

Brett, I think you have a pretty good handle on it. After chasing this issue for many years I have pretty much come to the same conclusion. I have even rode a couple of horses through a few civillian mounted patrol clinics, and I really think it just comes down to how much you trust each other.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

10 ай бұрын

Thanks, im not always sure I have a handle on anything lol. Yeah in the end its just a matter of being together in lots of situations.

Excellent teaching, it’s exactly how it works with following the Lord, do ya trust Him during maneuvers. Thanks for the lesson, I learn a lot about life by watching animals.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

You sir are correct.

Good stuff as always...

Very good. I was starting a colt one fall and he was doing so well. I could do anything with him and had even ridden him to the sawmill with all that equipment working up there. But he began to get nervous and one afternoon when the spreader body truck rattled down the driveway and a helicopter flew over, it really got to him. He didn't blow then but waited until 10 minutes later when I was at the mailbox. I opened the box, got the mail out and let him walk off while I zipped a letter open. When I went to turn that letter over, he went into a dead run and bucked at the same time. Turning the page was the proverbial “straw that broke the “camel’'s back”. It took me more than a quarter mile to get him turned with one rein and there was the real possibility he was going to fall with me. But I got him turned. There was a trail of mail for 400 yards and I had to start over with the colt. It had all been too much, too soon. Slow down! But he made a great horse. I rode him on a 100 mile circle in the Teton Wilderness.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

awesome

@julieammons9016

Жыл бұрын

Great story! I envisioned your mail flying all over the place 😂!

Watched this explanation again has I do several of your excellent talks…. Such great common sense, paints a cool horse…. .. Good luck with move….

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

3 ай бұрын

thank you. he is cool

Beautifully explained; appreciate ya!

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

thank you

One of your best videos Brett!

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

thank you

Thanks, this is great advice!

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

you bet, glad you liked it

Excellent explanation….. I’m crazy for Paint….. please keep me posted if u ever want to sell paint….. Consistency!!!! Yes sir!!! Love 3 yr old kids and horses… Paint is a unique horse👌 Thomas is great too:) ha

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

4 ай бұрын

I will do that.

This is my horse. He’s unrefined but he’s never scared of anything. He doesn’t care about anything but doing the job in front of him.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

perfect

Once and done, does not exist with horses ... Well said Sir

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

I want to know more about roping the pig???

Well, aren't you just gorgeous.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

?

You are a great horseman, therefore A horse will eventually get bomb proof just by being around you. Exposure surely helps. Around here there is absolutely nothing to do with a horse. But, roping PIGS , ....hhmmmm

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

Im an old pig roper from way back lol

How do you find this patreon thing?

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

www.patreon.com/TheArtofHorsemanship

I would say but Him to work

I guess I will have to throw away my blue tarp, flag and loud radio now. Had a horse once that was deathly afraid of pigs, never did get over it. Then again he wasn't any good outside of a fence either. Lions, tigers and bears.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

oh my! lol I always enjoy your comments

My favorite topic! Might be that unrelenting exposure can get you brain dead horses?. I Don't know of anywhere you can order up a string of lesson horses if there were I'd get one in every color. We expose our lesson horses as they're ridden we have many different exercises the horses know forwards and backwards that's why we can switch up riders from adults to itty-bitty kids and get consistency and predictably. Showing your horse new stuff is way fun and when done during their job can 'buy' you a bit more time before they tend to get bothered. That's how you make lesson horses.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

true dat

damn, i didn't think of a marching band..good call

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

lol

Switching cars..

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

Жыл бұрын

MAybe it's only shunting in Briton

Not a bombproof horse in 6 minutes, 6 hours, 6 days, .......ever.

@esmewetterwachs7462

6 ай бұрын

6 years 😁✌🏼

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

6 ай бұрын

you may have missed the joke.

@HorsemanshipAsAnArt

6 ай бұрын

The video is 6 min long.