Did you see Bundy look back at the camera when Warwick started to pretend to pull frantically on the lead rope?😂😂 The look on his face was like, “Did you guys see that? What the heck was that?” Lol It was as if he was looking at the people behind him to make sure that he wasn’t the only one who saw that. Lol

Bundy is such a big sweetie. He does a great job helping demonstrate training principles.

Thank you Warwick, all your principles are great! Of alllllll the parenting books I had read, the last one (figures, kids are kinda old now, missed my window) was Love and Logic. It was the best. It said just what you're saying. If we save our children from making mistakes, we're essentially teaching them that we don't have faith that they can deal with things on their own, so then they never think for themselves. Mistakes are wonderful teaching moments!

Hi Warwick, this is so exciting and educational. I love this new series. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and expertise with us. These are such important lessons to learn and know. It helps us help the horses. Thank you for doing this and in such a way that can be easily understood. Please have a happy day! Thank you again.

@apwrg4350

3 жыл бұрын

@Ace Alonso Thank you!

I'm so glad right now, that I instinctly did the right thing with my horses, when they spooked. :)

Thanks Warwick. I've been at it 60 years and never knew to squeeze the chestnut! Learn something new ever day, especially here. I already knew to let all pressure off as soon as they face up, and to work around until they do. Great stuff, doing a good job in a modern world with no more "horse as taxi".

Gosh this makes SO MUCH SENSE! I have been guilty of doing this ☝️ This is fantastic training 🙌

constant pulling and kicking at new and scary objects......defines every Road to the Horse I have ever watched. Maybe YOU should do the Road to the Horse, Warwick!!!!

Thank you so much for this!! I waa doing exactly that (putting more pressure when they move forwards) and not even realizing I was doing it. Now I know what I can do different. Thanks!!

I really appreciate this information and the principles.

Awesome lessons on such important fundamentals...you packed so much into that one video...loved it..... you’re a funny guy....you make it all fun 😁

Thank you for sharing this series. It is amazing!

This is super exciting. Males soo much sense.

Brilliant work sir!

TY

Terrific. Well done Warwick!

@bryanbogart4898

Жыл бұрын

Hello 👋 Kim, how are you doing? I hope you’re having a wonderful day?

Thanks, good video.

Fantastic!

I love how Bundy looks back at the camera after the bad demonstrations like, "Did you guys get that?"

@bryanbogart4898

Жыл бұрын

Hello 👋 Amanda, how are you doing? I hope you’re having a wonderful day?

Great point: horses don’t learn from pressure - they learn from the RELEASE of pressure. Keep that in your head and you’re headed in the right direction. Thanks for another excellent video Warwick! Any chance you’re coming to Tucson this year? Ps:I wish I saw this re: spooking thirty years ago, when I had a super sensitive mare who would spook frequently in one corner of the indoor arena... I definitely thought that I was helping her by working her more in that corner (because I thought she’d eventually notice that no monsters ate her during the time we were there) but I’m sure you can guess that she never really got it out of her system... It was a shame, because she was really a nice mare-I had her as a school lease- but her spooky behavior ended her time at the barn because the school couldn’t trust her to use her for lessons (other than for more advanced riders). She was hot, but much improved in the outdoor arena which leads me to think she might have been sensitive to light changes (there was a window in the corner where she would spook). The lead trainer certainly didn’t help either- his solution (when he worked with her) was to stick a tight martingale on her and ride her into the ground....he was a shitty trainer for sure- the barn was gorgeous but it ended up changing hands due to his poor decisions - including insurance fraud

This is so helpful!

@bryanbogart4898

Жыл бұрын

Hello 👋 Madelyn, how are you doing? I hope you’re having a wonderful day?

Very good introduction

That cat! 😂

Its just that simple....why is so hard LOL great videos as always

@bryanbogart4898

Жыл бұрын

Hello 👋 Rachel, how are you doing? I hope you’re having a wonderful day?

Hi I love your videos, you are my favorite celebrity trainer. I have a question. My mare is dominant in a herd with 3 geldings. One gelding is a little obtuse, and tends to ignore subtle signals (human and horse). Sometimes my mare gets fed up and kicks and kicks and kicks him, sometimes getting him pinned in a corner. Luckily he is much bigger than her and will eventually push past her to get away. She will stop if I am out there and tell her to stop. She will actually freeze and look at me while I walk over and then I ask her to move away so he can get out of the corner. She has never kicked under saddle but because of this behavior I tend to keep her at a safe distance from strange horses. Where in horse logic does this come from and should I be concerned?

Excellent video! I really am a fan, but I do have a request. Could you tighten up your rear cinch? At least to where you can slip your hand through. People that are learning will emulate what they see you do. The rear cinch has a purpose. It is to keep the back of the saddle from lifting in several situations like roping, being pitched forward in unexpected situations, bucking and such. Many have no clue what the rear cinch is for, it's just 'pretty or cool' to have. It is serious danger when they are trail riding down a steep, slippery embankment and their horse gets a rear hoof stuck in a dangling cinch, which I have witnessed Thank, so much for all that you do for horses by training the owners.

@louisecassidy5991

4 жыл бұрын

BarbedStar .....Mmm, I was wondering what the purpose was, might as well take it off eh? Myself, in Australia, I am a great fan of the crupper. I rode with mountain men around Jindabyne (sometimes on their horses, with crupper), and when I later had a little stud and rode my 3 y olds, those same men said "Keep a crupper on them" and I always did and found out why. The saddle never shifts forward, never bears on the shoulders downhill, and they balance the rider using the whole spine, tuck the rump and carry with the tail. Frees up the front legs and they strut downhill, leaving all else way behind and mincing. Certainly in roping, reining and cutting it should also be a tremendous asset. But no, everyone is afraid of it. Has to come with early training, of course, you can't just put one on any horse.

@barbedstar6480

4 жыл бұрын

@@louisecassidy5991 I use a crupper on my mule when I go for a quick ride on gentle ground. I do have a bretchen, for rough riding, which does the same as a crupper without working the tail so hard. But of late, especially with a mule, I am going to a second mohair , wide cinch which you cinch up pretty snuggly just where the belly starts to curve up toward the flank, while the front cinch is not as tight as you would cinch a horse. Cleaner look while being very effective on the shape of a mule for keeping the saddle put in any riding conditions. See this a lot down South and South of the border. With the horses, I tighten the rear cinch up til it nearly touches the belly hair. In a Western saddle, keep the rear cinch on, but snug it up so it can serve its real purpose. There is a real difference between a mule saddle and a Western horse saddle. A fat, soft rope can be used to teach any horse to accept a crupper, but a crupper is made to hook up to a mule or Australian saddle for they are built with the rings to hook up to. In the end, the idea is to keep the saddle securely in place and comfortably on the equine.

@barbedstar6480

4 жыл бұрын

@@louisecassidy5991 Louise, if you are riding a Western saddle, keep the rear cinch on and use it for what it was intended for. Cinch it up just to the point you can get your fingers between the rear cinch and the belly. Then it can be depended on to do what it was designed to do. A fat soft rope under a horses tail initially will teach any horse to accept the crupper. Australian saddle and mule saddles have the rings to hook up the crupper. You won't ever see a red-blooded American cowboy with a crupper! lol

@louisecassidy5991

4 жыл бұрын

BarbedStar ....I'm in an old traditional Aussie saddle, one mohair ring cinch, no crupper because the horses are not my own. I just did a rail sitter at a clinic last weekend, sussing out a bloke to start our youngster, all Western. His reason is partly because these Aussie saddles break, the trees will smash in a roll over or a fall, also he's studied in USA. There is a reason for everything. There is absolutely nowhere to put a saddle on a mule! The back is dead straight and horizontal. Most mule people (none here, but seen on You Tube) use breastplate, breeching, crupper, and 2 girths, and with all that gear the girths need not be as tight. When I packed I had all that on my pack saddle, and kept the rear cinch and crupper snug.

Thank you for providing this help. Have you got some info on bosals? (sp?) I'd like to use that rather than a bit. I don't compete just trail ride (used to do endurance). I need some guidance on the size of the bosal etc., also should I just ride with a rope halter before going to a bosal? My mare is 15 but has very little rides on her and pulled some b.s. on me i.e. buck, then rear. I was NOT on her face the reins were loose but we were close to the other horses and they came across the pasture and I think she just thought let's just get this human off me so I can go back to my buddies. She also doesn't know 'how to go forward' (buddy sour? & turning) I've been riding since I was 13 but the mounts were all 'broke' (I hate that word lol)

Warwick, my horse will spook at a sound, not at anything ge can see. Would you use this same principal with a sound spooking horse?

Warwick, a word of warning, if you feel the need to slow the video down to 50% to watch the length and quantity of strides, turn the sound off, otherwise it sounds like an Aussie in default mode!

Really appreciate your knowledge and insight. You have so much to teach us. But could you say about a thousand times more, "make the wrong thing hard and the right thing easy"? I'm sorry, but we get it!

Okay that back cinch is majorly bugging me. Any particular reason you don't have it snugged up properly? With that kind of a gap, it's useless, and if they hop over something it can grab their belly suddenly and scared the crap out of them. Horses have also been known to catch a foot in a too-loose back cinch. That cinch is made to help keep the back of the saddle from coming up off of him. If it's not used right, you may as well not have it. That being said, I have a lot of respect for you and I imagine you have a reason for doing that at this point in time?

@louisecassidy5991

4 жыл бұрын

Lisa Foster ....I ride Aussie with a crupper, horse carries you downhill with shoulders free, using his whole spine and tail to balance the rider, strutting instead of mincing. Got no time at all for Western rigs, especially not a swinging flank girth. I see they have cruppers on the Missouri Foxtrotters that go down into the Grand Canyon (see Lothar Rowe).

@lisafoster4468

4 жыл бұрын

@@louisecassidy5991 It shouldn't be swinging :/ Like, it should be snug like a well-fitting sock, or a little looser, but not tight or hanging. I believe it was originally to help keep the saddle in place when stock was roped. I've never used a crupper...hey, I wonder if that's why he's not using it correctly? Maybe they didn't have them when he was in Australia and someone in the US taught him wrong. Tell me about the crupper, though...it's kind of a loop around the tail, right?....doesn't it make a horse's dock sore?

@lisafoster4468

4 жыл бұрын

@@louisecassidy5991 I''m actually considering using an Aussie stock saddle when I finally get my own horse to train.

@jjfriday1180

4 жыл бұрын

@@lisafoster4468 I had an Aussie stock saddle. I wish I still had it! Best saddles ever!

@louisecassidy5991

4 жыл бұрын

Lisa Foster ..My saddle is a 1976 RM Williams Campdrafter, which I purchased new in 1977, it was the signature saddle for that year, and old RM actually got one for himself. It has dees all over, crupper dee, latigo cinch (unusual on an Aussie saddle but great, I love it) is stuffed with horsehair and lined with wool serge, and lately counterlined, it packs down and you put another over the top, with more horsehair, not disturbing the original work. I would not mind a dollar for every time it saved me, I've come out of it only 3 times since I've had it, and riding 3 y olds. I don't know where you are, but have a look at the Australian Saddle Company, an Aussie in USA. I rode in one once, they are very good. Lately our stock saddles have gone "half breed" like a Western saddle but kneepads and no horn. Whatever, but mine fits everything from 11 hands to 17-18 and never a sore back or a lost blanket.

What is the sport called in the US

How can I make the wrong thing hard for a horse that keeps running away when we are outside? We do endurance riding but this particular horse only runs away outside in a group ride. So how can i make the wrong thing hard when he starts running away?

@WarwickSchiller

8 ай бұрын

You are focused on "making things hard", but the episode is called "Make things easy". Making things easy in this case might be making sure your horse is perfectly good outside on his own, then perfectly good with one horse, then perfectly good with 2 horses etc etc. Obviously he is over threshold with the group, and so you want to make it easy for him to learn how to be good with it, by breaking things down.

Good video. Thank you! However, that is the squeakiest saddle I've ever heard! 😱

@Loki1815

4 жыл бұрын

Gal Friday : Cheers Gal, I hadn't noticed but now I can't not notice it! lol

Haha I WISH managers didn't micromanage 😅

@WarwickSchiller

4 жыл бұрын

Well they're not suppose to.

@rhythmandblues_alibi

4 жыл бұрын

@@WarwickSchiller amen to that! Really enjoying your videos btw, they have been super helpful. Thank you!

When were these filmed Warwick?

@WarwickSchiller

4 жыл бұрын

About 3 years ago.

@xSpiderswebx

4 жыл бұрын

@@WarwickSchiller I didn't think this was recent since I'm not seeing the stuff you've been posting lately present. Would you still handle spooking the same way? i find when you agitate them a little for being frightened, it just makes things worse. So i just let the spook happen and only get in the horse's way if they are about to do something unsafe, like run into a ditch or the road. Big reactions to spooks happen less and less, relatively quickly and then I get a horse that spooks in place, then carries on a few seconds later like nothing happened.

@WarwickSchiller

4 жыл бұрын

@@xSpiderswebx Id probably do it differently these days, BUT, this works, I've used it for a long time. The key is, I'm not agitating them. I'm just riding a little;e more energetically. If they can't handle you doing that, then they don't have the preparation to be able to do this exercise.

@xSpiderswebx

4 жыл бұрын

@@WarwickSchiller Perhaps I should have used annoy rather than agitate. I've just found it adds bad feelings to the already bad feeling from being frightened. But, i also tend to work with more sensitive breeds, like Arabs, and now mostly Pasos. Doesn't take much to annoy them. Not like a QH.

Hi Warwick, you probably wont reply but one of the horses at my work is very spooky. He's got much better with it overtime with the help of another trainer but when theres anything loud or something jumps out in the bushes etc. he will still spook (understandably). The problem is when he spooks he runs in front of you bucking and a few months ago he broke my hand from bucking in front of me (I had my arm out in front of me holding his lead rope). Since then he's spooked twice again and kicked out where I've had to dodge his feet. His rope is long so i can still keep a hold of him and back him up after with voice commands (I was told to yell and aggressively shake the rope but that only made things worse especially since he was already scared most of the time). Not sure if you or anyone knows anything that might help. He's not my horse so i cant do any groundwork or anything with him unfortunately.

@WarwickSchiller

4 жыл бұрын

Thats a tough situation to be in, you are not allowed to fix it.

Does a horse ever get over spooking

@louisecassidy5991

4 жыл бұрын

Kerryanne Narvo ......Ride tight and balanced with your body so you don't get spilled, leave the reins alone, try and ignore it. Either it is a habit designed to dump you, or a green horse you'd best not fall off. I found that miles of long steady work will help them to forget, yes, they get over it, but not if you are falling off, then it becomes a trick. Best not to ever fall off a green youngster, they never forget how it happened, and may try it again. It takes a good rider to make a good horse. Equally, it takes a very good horse to make a good rider, because if you never had the feel of a good one, you would not know what to aspire to!