Today Flynn and I worked on basic respect on the ground. We have been doing this for a few days, as we had a bit of a setback. You can read more about that HERE. We worked on lunging and he did well, but not quite as good as yesterday on his cues. We had a bit of trouble with the canter cue on the right side, he continued at a trot without picking up the pace. He began nodding his head again so I corrected him by making him back up. When he tried it again, this time pawing the ground challenging me, I made him lunge and lunge and lunge and then invited him into the center. He tried it one more time nodding his head, and I sent him off into a canter and switched his directions and made him work harder when he was disrespectful. By the end of the session, he was much better and leading better too and seemed a little more with me. I could tell he didn't want to be with me, but that'll come back with time. Horses need constant maintenance on their training, and set backs can be discouraging, but there is nothing like seeing results in your horse and your horse begin to trust you. We will get back to where we were, slowly, but surely. Horses never lie, if you aren't making progress or you have a setback you need to think over how your doing things and adjust to the horse.
As mentioned earlier, this is not an instructional post, however here are some great sources for horse info:
Rick Gore- Think like a horse- thinklikeahorse on youtube and thinklikeahorse.org
Clinton Anderson- Down under horsemanship- Down under horsemanship on youtube and downunderhorsemanship.com
Carson James- carsonjames.com
I don't agree with any one person on everything, but these horsemen know horses, and understand how they think. And I disagree with some on certain things but in general they are all really good with great info.
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