Video Critique: Liz and Ellie Submission 2
San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Liz and gives suggestions for further improvement.
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Lone Bindesbol says: Hello
I am doing this work with my horse three times a week, it sounds like it should be done every day to make a difference.I feel by doing it that often it becomes a drill and he always seems bored, and that makes me feel quite guilty.
Thank you for posting the blogs it has helped us a lot.
Best
L
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Radka says:
Dear Lone,
From my experience also working with other people, the boring comes with no aims and short-term goals. If you are not trying to achieve anything, the work is not progressing and you are not getting anywhere. But achieving just little goals like how big overstep can i get out of my horse today in stretch is one example. Or how big, powerful trot, how deep stretch or how long the horse keeps the stretch. To start a training with no goals brings no progress and boredom of your mind. And if you are bored, so is the horse. I find that the horses like routine, if they know what is asked of them and if they find it easy and within their comfort. You can push them out of their comfort zone here and there (like “i don’t think i can engage the hind end any more”) and reward them for their attempts which will help them to develop. We have been doing will’s training for 1,5 years and we both enjoy it. We do it every day and i just now love watching my horse moving so well and enjoying himself, i can see his pleasure in the movement. He had a little injury on his head and he had antibiotics and he was a bit not normal, let’s say, but when i took him for his lunge lesson down in the big grass field, he was enjoying himself and i could see it actually did him good and raised his spirits, we both loved it. So once you overcome the beginnings, there is loads of great stuff after that. And it gets better and better with every day! So just keep doing it with little goals in mind! Hope it helps 😉
Hello
I am doing this work with my horse three times a week, it sounds like it should be done every day to make a difference.I feel by doing it that often it becomes a drill and he always seems bored, and that makes me feel quite guilty.
Thank you for posting the blogs it has helped us a lot.
Best
L
Dear Lone,
From my experience also working with other people, the boring comes with no aims and short-term goals. If you are not trying to achieve anything, the work is not progressing and you are not getting anywhere. But achieving just little goals like how big overstep can i get out of my horse today in stretch is one example. Or how big, powerful trot, how deep stretch or how long the horse keeps the stretch. To start a training with no goals brings no progress and boredom of your mind. And if you are bored, so is the horse. I find that the horses like routine, if they know what is asked of them and if they find it easy and within their comfort. You can push them out of their comfort zone here and there (like “i don’t think i can engage the hind end any more”) and reward them for their attempts which will help them to develop. We have been doing will’s training for 1,5 years and we both enjoy it. We do it every day and i just now love watching my horse moving so well and enjoying himself, i can see his pleasure in the movement. He had a little injury on his head and he had antibiotics and he was a bit not normal, let’s say, but when i took him for his lunge lesson down in the big grass field, he was enjoying himself and i could see it actually did him good and raised his spirits, we both loved it. So once you overcome the beginnings, there is loads of great stuff after that. And it gets better and better with every day! So just keep doing it with little goals in mind! Hope it helps 😉