10 Things GOOD Trainers DO or DON’T Do! No. 1 Is Often Why Horses REAR UP

I've been debating all day what title I was going to title or how I was going to present this video and originally I admit that I wanted to title this video as the Top 10 Things Bad Coaches Do because it's a very sensitive topic for me, but I agree that this puts a negative spin on

things

and this channel is all about positive energy so I'm going to title this video the top 10

things

good

coaches do so without further ado let's get into it. What's happening? Today's topic for everyone will be the Top 10 Things Good Coaches Do and yes, I have had to say that about 10 times until I got it right, but anyway, these topics are not listed in chronological order from least to worse or whatever, but I will want to stay in the top three because they are the main things that I think will really make a difference in the long term for you as a rider or as a coach, but they are all equally important and some of them more than others depending depending on the situation you are in at the time or the type of person you are, so start with number 10, something you will see

good

trainers

doing frequently is resting their

horses

between training periods or training sessions , OK?

Very important exercises and exercises as riders, we do not feel the fatigue that your

horses

feel. You know, through their exercise, we can feel it when they get tired, but once you feel it, it's very important that you stop what you're doing. as soon as possible and let your horse's body oxygenate, okay, so it's the same as for us to go to the gym, especially if you haven't been in the gym for a while, so when are you going to start exercising if You know it's going to be very, very important that you do lighter work, short sessions with good rest periods in between, otherwise you're going to be horribly sore the next day and probably still sore the next day, and this is something you should do. do.

Always keep in mind how our horses feel. You know, depending on the exercises we're doing, sometimes you have a new horse that comes to training and you don't know what shape he's in or what you know about the recent history of his training and what he's been doing, so you'll want the horse will do things your way and you will show him things and maybe the first day will feel like your first day at the gym. I can do this just fine until you wake up the next morning and then you can barely walk properly. Our horses may feel the same.

Best way to avoid it and even with horses that are in good shape, heck, my crossfit trainer every time. I go there he says oh pain here pain there I'm like you're a crossfit trainer you do this all day how can you be sore but he's in pain because you use your body or a muscle that you haven't used before? in a certain way or whatever and then it hurts and that's fine because once you know if a horse is in good shape but some part of the body or slightly hurts, then you warm him up properly and he'll be fine just like us. but it's very important to keep that in mind, short sessions have breaks in between and it's also good for the mind because I think if you're trying to train something and teach your horse something, you should give it a chance to assimilate.

You have to give them a chance to assimilate what you have done and give them adequate time to think about it before starting again or moving on to the next thing now number nine number nine is going to be to reward the horses you will see that good

trainers

usually reward to their horses very clearly with a body signal or letting go of the reins or a good pat on the neck or butt to tell the horse that it did what it did very well or sometimes you can reward just a small effort even if the maneuver was not executed perfectly but you felt like there was an effort in the right direction, the horse tried, you know you have to reward that to build confidence and uh and develop your horse's desire to succeed and do well for you and I think if you never reward, Even if you're not punishing, you're just moving forward and training and training and training and riding and riding, but you don't take the time to make your horse feel like he's doing what you're asking him to do well or that he's trying to do it. well, then you'll be stuck in this vicious cycle where your horse is never really sure he knows what to do. do to make you happy and you may be lucky and have a very willing horse, but the ones who are willing need a little more encouragement or more justification as to what it is that you expect of them and what the end goal is, you know.

For you to spend all this time in the arena doing all these drills and drills well, I think rewarding your horse and making him feel really good about himself as

often

as possible is going to be a really important thing in training and writing and something like that. Which I recommend you do as

often

as possible. Number eight will be to make a plan that structures your trip well and once you get in there after 30 seconds, your plan can go out the window or during the entire session something can happen that I will work on something or I will have to work on something that I hadn't planned at all, but if you are really confident in your program in general, then this is a plan in itself and you will always be able to fall back on it, but you will move forward.

Having a plan knowing that you will warm up your horses according to the things you feel or plan to train that day will be starting off on the right foot instead of going in there and winging it and not really. Warming up your horse the way we're going to benefit what you're going to work on that day and setting yourself up for failure, so it's a very simple thing but it's something that makes a big difference. long term and it's something that I think really professional coaches or good writers who have a really good, clear idea of ​​what their program is can't afford to go in there without thinking too much about it and being able to adapt, but I think as that we learn, it's always good to have a very good idea of ​​what today's plan will be and have the ability to adapt along the way, number seven will be one more cyclist type mistake that I often see that you don't see that good coaches do it and that's looking down at the horse's shoulder and pulling down with your hands and sitting on your thighs and just leaning your foot, leaning your shoulder forward and this is a common mistake that I see because yeah, we.

We are all working to raise, raise and direct our shoulders in the direction we want to go, but in order for us to do that, you must first have a very good idea of ​​where you are going and this is being clear in your mind even if you are looking down. looking at your horse when you are training, which is fine looking at your horse, but you need to have a very clear picture of where you are going, so looking up and staying a quarter circle in front of your horse at all times will be very beneficial and that will be the posture you want, having your shoulders elevated and sitting in the pockets and really staying away from this area where we are.

When trying to lift the shoulder, you need to release it and bring that energy into the horse's body, but all too often I see people leaning forward, pulling down, and just looking down trying to get their horse into a certain position that ends up not working. it benefits nothing because All you have to do is concentrate all that energy right here when we try to take it from there and transfer it to the back and this will be something that you just don't see good coaches doing um and What I recommend that you put a lot of emphasis on as a cyclist it's about making sure you look up, know where you're going and always point your upper body in the direction you're going to sit in your pockets and release this. area, it will make everything else much easier to do.

Number six will be the breath and I call the breath and if you follow my videos you've heard me talk about this before, but this is something that I think I mean, I put a lot of emphasis on and I always think about it, but I think that everyone good coaches do it. They may not think about it the same way I do, but I know they do and that's waiting for your horse to take that breath and I promise you that if you go out tomorrow you will ride your horse and every time you do something, whether it's an exercise , an exercise or a maneuver, and then you will stop and let go of the reins, wait three or four seconds, I promise your horse will be fine and he will take a deep breath and exhale and that is the indicator that you are ready to move on to the next thing.

This is what tells me that my horse has assimilated what we just did and we are ready to move on and it is very important before correcting your horse if he made a mistake or before moving on to the next thing or asking something else, even if They did the right thing, always hope this is always the case. a good indicator that you're ready to move on to the next thing, that this part is done, the horse has recorded and you're ready to move on to the next thing, so it's a very simple thing but it makes a big difference.

Path number five will be to adapt to different types of horses. This is what really good trainers will do naturally and sometimes even think about it in the way they change spurs. Changing the bit depends on whether it fits the horse. It is very important that we all have. This really works well for us, it's something we are very comfortable with and have success with on most horses, but it's very important to not always work on making the horse work a little, but find it big. that works for the horse, so it may not be wise to stop mid-session and go inside and get another bite or two to try and get a better result, so we keep working and keep fighting if we can.

I'm struggling and sometimes it's in vain so I think it's very good, if things aren't going very well then maybe go and change the spurs, use a different row, a different length of shank or a different bit , use your legs differently. way and uh and I think that's very important because every horse is different so I think it's very good to adapt to each horse and know what your horse is like and what you should do and how you should set yourself up for success and really get the best out of each horse. horse adapting the way you interact and the way you prepare now this is where it's getting really interesting now this is number four and number four is something that I think is very, very important and that will be judging very accurately if your horse that you know made a mistake or did something wrong intentionally or not, because sometimes horses you can tell that they can do something wrong because you know that they did it.

You know, they might have farted in the brain or they might have gotten scared or whatever, and it's very important if, especially if the horse got scared and did something wrong because it was afraid, don't punish, that never punish the fear because then it makes the horse afraid to make a mistake and this is where it is very difficult to control this type of negative energy in the horse's body when it is afraid of making a mistake, so what you really want to make sure you do is give it to your horses the benefit of the doubt at least the first two times of running something even if they know what it is and they should know what it is because there can be many factors that can come into play as to why they didn't do it right, it could be a malfunction physical a problem with the shoe it could be something in the fit of your tack it could be anything or it could be like I said a simple brain fart or the horse could have spooked and I think it's very important to give your horse the benefit of the doubt just prepare yourself again and ask again and when you know and you are 100% sure you know your horse failed because he said no or he got too lazy and didn't even try. you need to make your consequences very clear and effective and ask again and go back to the first things we talked about and then as soon as you make the effort and get what you want, your reward so you know it's like that. uh, it's very black and white in a way that uh, it's okay that you know how to make mistakes, it's okay to fail and I'm not going to punish you every time you fail, but I'm not going to tolerate any lack of effort. at work a number three is going to be something that good trainers don't do and that's overkill now I like to go back to the golden rule in horse training which is if you can get one percent every day then in a hundred days you will have one hundred percent and I think that is the truest thing there is and some horses one percent each day may not be the same as other horses one percent each day and some horses may be a green horse at six months of training and perform much better on one than one that is also a green horse but that has 12 or 18 months of training, so I think what defines a green horse is not the schedule of the amount of training it has and for how long but just where they are in their training and some horses evolve faster and learn faster than others so I think it's good to set a goal.

Okay, there will be this competition in three or six months that I want to compete in. that's what you're working on too, but then as youYou get closer to that competition, if this horse is ready but has less training and this horse is not ready and has more training, then it is important not to overdo it with this horse to know, to be able to achieve this goal. just set a new goal in the future and prepare and be ready for this goal and that brings me to another thing that I like to tell myself because it seems like every year when we change years the horse goes two years old. from age to a three-year-old or from a three-year-old to a four-year-old and so on, and it seems that our expectations change, but more and more often in overly dramatic ways, more dramatically anyway than the overnight period.

That simply happens from changing from one year to another but now we are if a horse is three years old turns four, well now we are riding them as four years old that are not doing well or that are green. So we are more demanding than the previous year, where They were just three year olds and they were doing very well, so I think if you can adopt the fact that, when you change years in the first two or three months of that year they continue to ride this horse like a horse from the year before that's doing really well rather than like the new year's horse that's not doing well and I think that's going to make all the little things that we discussed before uh take a little more of your time and be a little more rewarding. for your horses and keep their confidence level a little higher instead of destroying it by uh, suddenly increasing your expectations tenfold just because you change the year Overnight, number two is going to be something that I think everyone We will be victims at some point, but it is something that you will notice that good coaches hide very well or can control very well and that is something that is very important. that's either to get angry or not to get angry, so in the world of performance horses you know when you have clients that pay you and have expectations and you make promises because of an event that's coming up and you have that pressure that increases the horse. is not cooperating or not doing good for whatever reason and then you know that just puts pressure on you and sometimes it can make you angry and letting anger get the best of you is going to be the number one recipe for failure and I think this is what you can see. , the best professionals you know, who compete at the highest level of any discipline, the ones who, somehow, you know, the ones who have the most to lose seem to be the ones who can control that anger. much better than anyone else and I think we can all learn from that so my advice to you is when you feel anger building do everything you can to stop whatever you are doing at the time and realign yourself and Control that. body energy within you so as not to channel it into your horse and make your horse, you know, afraid of you or scared, which again is all, um, all the kind of things that never lead to anything good, so control . the energy in your body to remain passive and if you feel that pressure getting to you or you feel that anger to stop what you're doing, breathe and only continue when you have control of that energy, well, here we are. even number one and number one is going to be the most important in a way, it's such a bad thing in a way and that's something that good coaches don't do, but they don't even think about not doing it.

It's just something that's natural to your body and that's what I call pulling and kicking at the same time now in horse training so that our horses really drive from behind and channel their energy through their diagonal and lift their shoulders and really learn to use your body, we need to use our legs and we need to use our hands, okay, but if you're wondering how they teach horses to

rear

in the movies, it's usually by applying a lot of pressure with your hands and legs on the Al At the same time, it's a little like taking your car and putting it at full speed with the

rear

wheels while you're going while you have it in reverse, at full speed with the front wheels, what's going to happen is that you're both going to crash into each other and the half.

It's going to shoot up into the sky and that's going to explode and it's the same thing that happens with a horse, so when you see a horse that just grabs the bit and jumps or goes into the air or rears up nicely that's because This horse is probably getting too much pressure from the hand and leg at the same time with no outlet for that pressure, so the energy builds up until it explodes, so it's very, very important that in some cases with horses that are a little more uh, sentimental or lazy or whatever, that has a lot of energy anyway to be able to uh and you may need to use your you know more leg and you need to be aggressive with your leg at some point or you may need to throw a a little harder or be a little more aggressive with your hand, but it is very important that you naturally and instinctively be able to separate your upper body from your lower body, the stronger you are going to lose your lower body , lighter and more passive needs the upper part of the body. to stay and the more you use your hands, the more stable and relaxed your lower body and legs should be.

It can be firmly around your horse and still be there. I'm not saying go slack, but it's very important to be able to really divide yourself, as the higher the intensity in one, the lower the intensity should be in the other and that's how you'll always keep that energy from building up and exploding all at once. ugly way and And so, that's something that I consider very dangerous because it's something that I see, you know, trainers who often have problems with their horses and often it's because I see too much tension coming from the hands and the legs at the same time. time and that never equals anything good, but then when you see the really good trainers running around, you see that they are very effective with their legs and very effective with their hands, but you never see them use both strongly. at the same time and that's why you can afford to be a little firmer without the horse worrying guys that's it for me today thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed this video yes Please give me like it, as it tells a YouTube algorithm that this video is worth showing to other people and helps me grow this community.

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