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Make your horse better with Annie Oakley horse trainingAnnie was a female sharpshooter back in the horse 'n buggy days. To prove her sharpshooting ability, she once had 5,000 pennies tossed in the air. She hit..."4,777 of them!" That's an anstounding 95.57%. Was she a natural? Maybe. But even a natural has to practice. Doing something over and over can only get you better at it. And that, my friend, is a BIG horse training principle. If you want your horse to do something, it has to be explained to him....day after day. At first, he won't likely get it. In fact, as he attempts what you're asking, it won't be purty. He may be a little clumsy doing it. But you keep at it remembering that you must explain it to your horse day after day after day. Don't kick yourself for not being good at getting your horse good at doing something right away. It's not your fault. He'll get better and better as long as the habit you're teaching him is the one you want him learning. That's one place the consistency factor comes in to make your horse better. Consistently, you explain to horse what you want him to do..day after day. And you know what one of the best things you should explain to your horse is? Explaining to him how to move his parts. By parts I mean his body. You see, if you divide your horse into 4 parts you would have the head and neck, the shoulders, the barrel (rib cage), and the hind- quarters. Why divide them up like that? Because you need a way to make it easiest for the horse to understand what you're asking him. If you asked him to move all the parts at once, he wouldn't get it. You and he would get frustrated and it just wouldn't work. But start with a body part and just work on that and you have a formula for success. Now why do you want to teach him move his body parts? Because that's how you get your horse to move his whole body later. Just think. You touch your leg toward his flank and immediately his hindend moves away. And that can be done while you do a little neck- reining. You use your other leg and bump him by the shoulder and moves his body around. If you've ever ridden a horse that responds like what I'm describing, you would settle for nothing less. It's exhilirating to ride (and own) a horse that responds like that.
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One of the best ways I've EVER seen to teach this to a horse is using Sam Burrell's "How To Install An Operating System In Your Horse" Even Sam would tell you that he went for years training horses without knowing this. And when he discovered it, everything changed for him. Sam told me when he discovered this he remembered a saying from famous horseman Ray Hunt who said: "The first thing you need to know is the last thing you'll find out" If you have Sam's DVD, I implore you to watch it again and do this with your horse. You will be shocked how responsive your horse becomes. He'll listen better too.Be more respectful. And best of all, you'll have more fun with him, he'll be so much safer and making your horse better.
They laughed when I started training my own horse, but when they saw what he could do...
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