Warwick, this is exactly what I experienced myself with my new horse. I can ask him to do a lot of things, he is always trying to do it right. But being only 3 and just in from the youngsters pasture, he is mentally not really ready for it. For example, brushing him all over. I can do it, but if I just brush him on the neck and extend it gradually further each day , he is so much more connecting with me! Listening to the horse is what it's all about building a true relation!
“Turning them loose” was so key for my own experience. That was my yes question yesterday. We made definite connection when I unlatched the line and everything I had been asking came to me, meaning he stayed engaged with the freedom. Truly exceptional and the bond was the confidence that flowed between us, and it was totally fluent. Perfect space and order. Short and sweet, and accurate the dance was. I sat with him in his runout after he left his food, and gave him the freedom to speak to me on his terms. I have found holding the peace and staying in tune with patience has been key and such a platform for all my horses at whatever age and stage we are in. That foundation, the solid one, starts so clearly on the ground.💟 Journaling the interaction has been incredible. That alone has taught me about myself and the bond I desire for each of my horses. I love your videos.....
Thank you for your videos. I've been paying more attention to where my horses are than where I want them to be. My change in thought and actions is definitely building better relationships with them.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Just found out Elsa Sinclair is coming to Germany in the Fall 2020!!! Hope it will take place (y)---- Great content as always, dear Warwick! Greetings from Dresden.
It's funny how Elsa Sinclair has been quietly going about her Tuesday Tea with Elsa ' and now many of us are following her great advice, myself included!
I had signed up to take her course in April, but due to the lockdown, couldn't get out to the barn, so have had to post-pone the whole thing. I was SO looking forward to it! But still taking the time to watch her videos and Warwick's and learn something. :)
Thank you! What you have been doing since March is fabulous! Have been spending pasture time with my girls. When I moved the 4 year old Warlander filly to a new boarding situation and came for a visit, she followed me all over the field and letting the other horses get near me unless I welcomed them. It was eye-opening...and she's only seen me a few times at the old location after purchasing her. before this move. These are incredible creatures.
WarwickSchiller 6 days ago I have 650 full length training videos on my video library that has a 7-day-free-trial if you're interested in more in depth videos!
THANK YOU for sharing your teachings, these have helped me immensely. Reading the energy, knowing when they are relaxed. Raising our foal now yearling, this has helped me SO much!
This is one of many favorites! This is my biggest goal this year - increasing my horse’s confidence in me! I am making huge strides with my horse, Louis. Very grateful, Warwick, thank you!! #journeyon20
The saying I've held to ... is choose your battles wisely choose only that what yiu can win... not that its a battle but exactly as you are saying they need to know the answer its in their vocabulary
What always works for me is, standing by the gate to the barn where they get their feed, or standing where I throw out vegetables and fruit for them. I haven’t meet a horse yet that wasn’t food motivated.
This is actually really bad advice! 1.) you don’t want your horse to only care about you if you have food 2.) treats create bad habits 3.) extra food can cause all sorts of metabolic issues
I love your idea of knowing when to ask the questions. I noticed this during your video showing how to teach a young horse how to pick up a leg and you mentioned that it wasn't a good time to ask if the horse had all of it's weight on the leg you were about to ask for. This has helped me a lot with teaching my yearling the basic handling work :)
This makes me think of when we were kids wanting to go to the fair or anywhere special, mom would say don't ask dad when he first gets home from work. Wait until he's eaten and relaxed. My little sister always messed up and would ask him as soon as he opened the door. And, of course, he would give here a grumpy, negative! (Army vet). 😑🤣
One thing about sayings like, "Good leaders only ask Yes questions" is that people translate that into: "I'm going to ask you to do something and then if you don't/can't, I will make sure you do it one way or another". I would love to see more progressive trainers like Warwick Schiller, really address this tendency to turn these types of sayings into a reason to be more aggressive and to continue to just not listen to the horse.
Speaking of feeding/awkwardness of requests, I believe you are against using treats for training. Is requiring certain behaviors before feeding essentially the same thing? For example if you need to halter your horse before feeding grain, and the horse hates the halter, do you give them the option to refuse and consequently withhold the grain? Or just ignore their opinion about the halter and keep working on the acceptance of it in other venues?
I am confused. When you discussed these exercises, I thought one of the prerequisites was that you should have zero expectations for reaction from the horse. That the point was to let the horse know that you were aware of him, not requiring that he be aware of you. How could it be the wrong time to do that based on the fact that he might not react to you and how would it cause him to lose confidence in you if you are not asking him to do anything?
WarwickSchiller Thanks. I thought attracting their attention was as small as an ear flick or a head turn. Having them come to you was , I thought, a demonstration of significant connection but getting an ear flick was ok as a start.
@@mikeprendergast6866 Thats what she was trying, and couldnt get an ear flick when there was grass. So i suggested that exercise was not a good fit at that time.
Warwick, this is exactly what I experienced myself with my new horse. I can ask him to do a lot of things, he is always trying to do it right. But being only 3 and just in from the youngsters pasture, he is mentally not really ready for it. For example, brushing him all over. I can do it, but if I just brush him on the neck and extend it gradually further each day , he is so much more connecting with me!
Listening to the horse is what it's all about building a true relation!
“Turning them loose” was so key for my own experience. That was my yes question yesterday. We made definite connection when I unlatched the line and everything I had been asking came to me, meaning he stayed engaged with the freedom. Truly exceptional and the bond was the confidence that flowed between us, and it was totally fluent. Perfect space and order. Short and sweet, and accurate the dance was.
I sat with him in his runout after he left his food, and gave him the freedom to speak to me on his terms.
I have found holding the peace and staying in tune with patience has been key and such a platform for all my horses at whatever age and stage we are in.
That foundation, the solid one, starts so clearly on the ground.💟
Journaling the interaction has been incredible. That alone has taught me about myself and the bond I desire for each of my horses.
I love your videos.....
Combining Warwick's and Elsa's techniques has worked magic with horses for me.
Does Elsa have also a RUclips channel?
Thank you for your videos. I've been paying more attention to where my horses are than where I want them to be. My change in thought and actions is definitely building better relationships with them.
Wonderful!
Yes questions wirh things they can do love it❤
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Just found out Elsa Sinclair is coming to Germany in the Fall 2020!!! Hope it will take place (y)---- Great content as always, dear Warwick! Greetings from Dresden.
Timing, feel, logic, instinct. Thank you Warwick.
It's funny how Elsa Sinclair has been quietly going about her Tuesday Tea with Elsa ' and now many of us are following her great advice, myself included!
I had signed up to take her course in April, but due to the lockdown, couldn't get out to the barn, so have had to post-pone the whole thing. I was SO looking forward to it! But still taking the time to watch her videos and Warwick's and learn something. :)
Thank you! What you have been doing since March is fabulous! Have been spending pasture time with my girls. When I moved the 4 year old Warlander filly to a new boarding situation and came for a visit, she followed me all over the field and letting the other horses get near me unless I welcomed them. It was eye-opening...and she's only seen me a few times at the old location after purchasing her. before this move. These are incredible creatures.
Wonderful!
I have Horse TV. Please put up full vids on this subject. You & Carson James are my two favorites.
WarwickSchiller
6 days ago
I have 650 full length training videos on my video library that has a 7-day-free-trial if you're interested in more in depth videos!
THANK YOU for sharing your teachings, these have helped me immensely. Reading the energy, knowing when they are relaxed. Raising our foal now yearling, this has helped me SO much!
Thank you for sharing love from Sweden 😊🇸🇪❤
This is one of many favorites! This is my biggest goal this year - increasing my horse’s confidence in me! I am making huge strides with my horse, Louis. Very grateful, Warwick, thank you!! #journeyon20
The saying I've held to ... is choose your battles wisely choose only that what yiu can win... not that its a battle but exactly as you are saying they need to know the answer its in their vocabulary
Timing- it's everything. Excellent video, Warwick! I'm looking forward to the next ones for sure!
What always works for me is, standing by the gate to the barn where they get their feed, or standing where I throw out vegetables and fruit for them. I haven’t meet a horse yet that wasn’t food motivated.
So what happens when you don't have food with you? Does their behaviour change?
This is actually really bad advice! 1.) you don’t want your horse to only care about you if you have food 2.) treats create bad habits 3.) extra food can cause all sorts of metabolic issues
I love your idea of knowing when to ask the questions. I noticed this during your video showing how to teach a young horse how to pick up a leg and you mentioned that it wasn't a good time to ask if the horse had all of it's weight on the leg you were about to ask for. This has helped me a lot with teaching my yearling the basic handling work :)
I need these videos!
A really interesting point of view, thank you!
This makes me think of when we were kids wanting to go to the fair or anywhere special, mom would say don't ask dad when he first gets home from work. Wait until he's eaten and relaxed. My little sister always messed up and would ask him as soon as he opened the door. And, of course, he would give here a grumpy, negative! (Army vet). 😑🤣
Hilarious analogy!
I have one big mistake I hold the saddle while riding
Nice
One thing about sayings like, "Good leaders only ask Yes questions" is that people translate that into: "I'm going to ask you to do something and then if you don't/can't, I will make sure you do it one way or another". I would love to see more progressive trainers like Warwick Schiller, really address this tendency to turn these types of sayings into a reason to be more aggressive and to continue to just not listen to the horse.
Speaking of feeding/awkwardness of requests, I believe you are against using treats for training. Is requiring certain behaviors before feeding essentially the same thing? For example if you need to halter your horse before feeding grain, and the horse hates the halter, do you give them the option to refuse and consequently withhold the grain? Or just ignore their opinion about the halter and keep working on the acceptance of it in other venues?
I am not against using treats, I have no idea where you got that idea
I am confused. When you discussed these exercises, I thought one of the prerequisites was that you should have zero expectations for reaction from the horse. That the point was to let the horse know that you were aware of him, not requiring that he be aware of you. How could it be the wrong time to do that based on the fact that he might not react to you and how would it cause him to lose confidence in you if you are not asking him to do anything?
She was trying the third exercise, where you try to attract their attention.
WarwickSchiller Thanks. I thought attracting their attention was as small as an ear flick or a head turn. Having them come to you was , I thought, a demonstration of significant connection but getting an ear flick was ok as a start.
@@mikeprendergast6866 Thats what she was trying, and couldnt get an ear flick when there was grass. So i suggested that exercise was not a good fit at that time.
Today I fell from my horse now I have no more confidence
Work with the Horse thats in front of you.id be more inclined to do matching steps in this situation.