Sam, you're the best. Thank you so much for the different methods! My mare is turning 23 this year so we don't do much actual riding anymore, and I've been wanting to do more tricks with her (we already know "back-up", "smile", and "gimme kiss"), this one will take us a WHILE but will be so fun!!! ♥️♥️♥️
my horse is older too. he is about 20 so that is why i am training him too. He doesn't listen the best when riding but hopefully he will figure this out because he is a very calm horse.
This is so helpful! I’ve been trying to get my 4yr old horse to do this i tried it and it worked! Thank you so much for this and you just gained one more subscriber!
Thank you so much for making this video! I've been struggling to teach mine, he would try to bow when I would pick his hooves or with the Ferrier, and neither of us fully knew what we were doing. This helped a lot!
Great video! I taught my horse and my alpaca to bow using your video and both look amazing (the horse looks a lot better because of the shorter neck) had to modify it a bit for the alpaca but both look amazing! My Mare was terrified at the thought of bowing at first but we figured it out torwards the end. My alpaca on the other hand I'm pretty sure lacks fear and he did it on the third try.
Also Sam your bond with Lynx is incredible! I'm so glad you train the right way which is to say you don't use fear to bully your horse into doing these tricks. You have a healthy relationship which is why Lynx is so obedient. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise! You rock! You've inspired me to help BLM mustang's by adopting them, training them, and selling them to good homes. And maybe even get a second horse during my journey!
Hi , I’ve just tried to teach my horse to bow I’m having trouble with him hopping sideways when I pick up his leg ? Any suggestions how to get him to not do that would be appreciated ☺️ I’m new to all of this .
thank you so much for this lesson on bowing.My horse i am trying to teach doesn't like keeping his leg up long enough to bow, he yanks his foot down after i get it up for a second.But we are working on it and he will get it.
This will be so helpful! And are you sick? An WHAt HAPPENED TO YOUR LEG!!???❤️🐴 Excited to watch! Love your channel so much I’m on the hunt for the perfect mustang to adopt because of you! I love Lynx so much🐴❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hello, Sam! I've been using your methods to teach my 25-year-old Quarter Horse how to bow. He will hold his leg up and let me rock him back, but then pulls his leg out to try to back up. I can't get him to keep his lifted leg still. What do I do? Thanks!
Just wanted to say I really love your method but I have been doing some research and what I have found is that if they land on there knee it could damage it, so I recommend having him land on his cannon bone. But thank you very much for this method! I am about to teach my giant Clydesdale stallion with your first method!! I can't wait!!!
I’ve been trying to teach my horse to bow for a week and a bit more now, but he keeps jumping up and back when he backs up. Any tips on what I should do? I tried all 3 methods and the one that has worked the best so far is the first one , but once he gets close the the ground he jumps up. Love your videos btw :)
Hey 👋 just had one question been doing this with my filly and we’re both stick. She will take her foot back all the way super comfortable with that but will not let her knee touch the ground she just steps as far back to the point her front leg is basically on top of the back leg. I don’t know how to get her to realize she needs to go on her knee.
Thank you. Btw you never did part 2 of the lay down. I’ve achieved getting my horse to go down on cue...but he ROLLS every time then gets right back up. How do I just get him to lay down without rolling
Thanks for the video. I have a colt that I have had no choice but to use the John Rarey technique on. It sounds inhumane, but in the end you end up with a very willing horse. My problem is that I have a bit of a clumsy fellow. Any advice for a horse that gets himself tangled up?
I saw the lead rope rapped around your hand, Are you doing that since your comfortable with this horse? I’ve always been taught that it’s not safe since a horse could spook, boom fractured wrist.
i’m going to be teaching rooster this trick today because it’s been raining so much!! I think I’ll use the second method, in hopes that it will click faster for him. How would you recommend transitioning cues, so that you don’t have to use the rope every time? Would you transition from the rope to using your hand like in the second method?
Could you try and made a more in depth video on how to do the bow with the back up and the crop please? I’m trying to teach the horse I ride how to do it but he’s not quite understanding with the little info I can get from the video.
I have a stubborn Arabian who hates to even have his knee touch the ground. Has reared before. I'm doing a lot of new bowing stretches getting him comfortable bending down and bending his knees. He'll pick up his foot on his own sometimes but nothing much more then that. Definitely a slow process at his pace until he figured it out! He's definitely trying though!
Can someone tell me if it matters what leg u use bc I trained my horse how to bend her leg and I thought that was a bow when I was little and I found out that there is another cool way to do it and she is so used to the one leg that I would like to just use that one but I’m not sure if there is a certain one u should use
How do you transition from manually putting their leg where you want it, to them putting their knee down and bowing by themselves? My mare is great at bowing now but I still have to place her leg, we have yet to attach a cue to the move.
What I've been doing with my horse is putting wait on her back using my hands to get her used to it. Then I've been throwing an old towel on her back so looks like somebody is climbing on her back and then put pressure on the towel to simulate a rider. Then I tried hopping on and she was great. I know the towel thing and the pressure on the back sound silly but it actually worked. I'm training the bow so that way I can get on her if there is no mounting block. She ain't tall but neither am I and the first time I tried mounting bareback without a block I just sort of bounced off of her and she just looked at me like what are you doing. Shes used to people sort of bouncing off of her like that or people doing strange things on her back because she is an ex vaulting horse. Anyways hope this helps!
I'm having the same problem with my second horse. What I found that helped was going back and working on the back up. I then went back to the bow and was talking to her reassuring her that she can back up on 3 legs and the world isn't going to end if you drop to the ground and show be how polite you can be. So just going back to the back up, comforting them by talking softly, and rewarding them should solve the problem.
I’m trying to reach my boy how to pick up his foot by tapping him the crop/whip, but no matter what I use he thinks I’m trying to get him to lunge. How should I solve this? He is trying so hard so I can’t be mad ☺️
@Willa Eventing thank you so much! It still seems like he is a little bit anxious about being tapped with a crop or whip, would you suggest anything else? 😳
@Willa Eventing I agree! He’s an ottb so I’m sure somewhere along the line something went on that he’s thinking about, thanks so much and I’ll let you know how it goes!!☺️
@Willa Eventing little update!! We haven’t gotten it down yet but I can tell you that he’s definitely not scared of the crop 🤣 I can swing it all around and there’s no reaction, baby steps 😋
My horse puts her knee on the ground using the first method but as soon as it touches the ground she jumps back up. How can I make her hold the position?
So I tapped his leg to get us started...got nothing...not even a blink in response, at all ever. Now I'm doing tap-gimme your hoof like for the farrier-release. Correct or incorrect?
I had the same problem as you not for the bow but when training the spanish walk (since she already knew from the spanish walk it really helped with the bow) so I tried several things top and try and get her annoyed didn't work, tap her harder still didn't work. So I did several things that helped fix this. So when you tap and tap and tap they learn to ignore you and they sort of just zone out and get bored or distracted and they don't listen so first things first you have to get their attention otherwise you aren't gonna get far. What I did was I to took a riding crop and whacked my boot hard which brought her back to reality. This may sound like a mean thing to do but it really gets their attention back on you so now that you have their attention it's time to work on the foot problem so what I found that worked with my horse was I gave up on the whip and resulted in using my hand I started by just poking the back of the fetlock it's more sensitive there and she picked up her foot and the second she lifted it I stopped poking and told her what an amazing girl she was. Now I know that the fetlock isn't where you tap but trust me I'm getting to it. So then once she understands that I use the whip and do the same thing. Then I went back to my hand and did the same behind the knee. And then switched to the whip. And whenever she would zone out I'd whack my boot with the crop as a friendly reminder what we are focusing on. So then her feet got more sensitive to the whip and the best thing is is now I could progress to the bow, and the spanish walk which both require this action. I know this seems like a lot but it didn't take long for my Mare to understand this. This shouldn't take longer than a week for your horse to understand. I did two 5-10 minute sessions a day and she got it in 3 days. But it is so worth the wait because it also makes picking feet easier! Hope this helps!
Nope. In all the methods the horse goes onto the knee. You still have to release for the horse rocking back with the second method. As you can see, the horse demonstrating already knows how to bow, so he’s going to go into it fast. I also explained that the rope is the same as a hand holding up the leg, it just makes it easier on the back and you have have more leverage if you have one hopping around 🙂
Ok, so I have a problem. If Sam or someone out here in the comments who has done this before could give me some advice, that would be great! My mare has an ok backup, and her feet handling is great. The problem I have encountered is that she is actually quite soft when I pick up her hoof (facing her head ) and I pull on her upper leg. She will immediately yield to my pressure, but not quite how I want her to... she has learned to walk backward on three feet-ish. The first step she takes is with her other front, and then her back feet will move, and then she has to take her bowing leg back for her balance. I need her left front (the one that is supposed to lean, not go down on the knee) to stay where it is, but she’ll hop it back. Please, if someone could help me out, I would appreciate it so so sooo much. ❤
“Don’t let your horse mug you” 😂 lol
Very carm girl ,,very nice
I’m 100% trying this when it’s done raining. Thanks for teaching.
did it work for u😊
Sam, you're the best. Thank you so much for the different methods! My mare is turning 23 this year so we don't do much actual riding anymore, and I've been wanting to do more tricks with her (we already know "back-up", "smile", and "gimme kiss"), this one will take us a WHILE but will be so fun!!! ♥️♥️♥️
my horse is older too. he is about 20 so that is why i am training him too. He doesn't listen the best when riding but hopefully he will figure this out because he is a very calm horse.
Im definetly gonna try the first method for my horse! Also hope your foot gets better soon!
So excited for the how tos!!!!!!!!!!
This is so helpful! I’ve been trying to get my 4yr old horse to do this i tried it and it worked! Thank you so much for this and you just gained one more subscriber!
Thank you so much for making this video! I've been struggling to teach mine, he would try to bow when I would pick his hooves or with the Ferrier, and neither of us fully knew what we were doing. This helped a lot!
This was really awesome I love your horse that was awesome and I love your horse
My horse Bella was so happy when my dad came home from work and I showed him and he was so happy. :)
Great video! I taught my horse and my alpaca to bow using your video and both look amazing (the horse looks a lot better because of the shorter neck) had to modify it a bit for the alpaca but both look amazing! My Mare was terrified at the thought of bowing at first but we figured it out torwards the end. My alpaca on the other hand I'm pretty sure lacks fear and he did it on the third try.
I wouldn't of thought to try it on an alpaca :)
This is absolutely the BEST video I have seen on this!!👍👏👏👏👏👏
Well explained. Excellent.
I am gonna try this with my filly, but gotta wait because snow is on ground. Could put straw down too lol. 😂 Awesome video thanks! ♥️
Your poor horse is looking at you as if to say, "What are you, nuts?" Especially since Lynx already knows how to do this trick.
Lol, he’s such a sport for these how to’s 🤣
Also Sam your bond with Lynx is incredible! I'm so glad you train the right way which is to say you don't use fear to bully your horse into doing these tricks. You have a healthy relationship which is why Lynx is so obedient. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise! You rock! You've inspired me to help BLM mustang's by adopting them, training them, and selling them to good homes. And maybe even get a second horse during my journey!
I’m going to teach my mustang to bow for a competition I’m going to in June. Thank you for the tutorial!
What a sweet horse!!!
Very nice very good job. Please more tricks do the send. You are fawn. Very Thanks.
I love your mustang!! I'm attempting to teach my Green Mountain mustang to bow once I can really start working again!
Thank you for this! I will try this! Also get well soon!
I'm definetly going to teach my horse to bow!
So awesome .. thank you. 🐴🤠🐎
Easy 4 U because U R the real horse whisperer!
Very nice good truth job mind happy. I teach. Thanks Thanks
Love the video help me so much, thank you
I needed this!
THANK YOU! Love every video
fab -thanks. my daughter loves your site
I love your horse and you.
I have a horse to thay are so fun and you are so so so so good at this
Hi ,
I’ve just tried to teach my horse to bow
I’m having trouble with him hopping sideways when I pick up his leg ?
Any suggestions how to get him to not do that would be appreciated ☺️
I’m new to all of this .
Thank you! I am so going to do this.
Thank you for sharing.
I'm going to try this tomarrow on my horse
Very good video I’ll try it!
Thanks for sharing😎🌻
thank you so much for this lesson on bowing.My horse i am trying to teach doesn't like keeping his leg up long enough to bow, he yanks his foot down after i get it up for a second.But we are working on it and he will get it.
A true horse woman hard to believe he was a wild horse well done .
This will be so helpful! And are you sick? An WHAt HAPPENED TO YOUR LEG!!???❤️🐴 Excited to watch! Love your channel so much I’m on the hunt for the perfect mustang to adopt because of you! I love Lynx so much🐴❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Nope, that’s just my voice. Leg got hurt in an non-horse related accident
Sam VanFleet oh okay! Hope it heals fast! Love your videos!🐴❤️👍
Hello, Sam! I've been using your methods to teach my 25-year-old Quarter Horse how to bow. He will hold his leg up and let me rock him back, but then pulls his leg out to try to back up. I can't get him to keep his lifted leg still. What do I do?
Thanks!
Just wanted to say I really love your method but I have been doing some research and what I have found is that if they land on there knee it could damage it, so I recommend having him land on his cannon bone. But thank you very much for this method! I am about to teach my giant Clydesdale stallion with your first method!! I can't wait!!!
I really like how u explain Thank you
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When i have my horse, i will try this, here is day by day doing something (lol):
Day 1: watching this xD
Day 2:
Day 3:
Day 4:
Day 5:
Day ...:
How it went?
Hi thanks for the video but what is the stick thing that your holding I’m going to get my 1st horse soon
Hi Sam, I’m really close to getting this but my horse just won’t put his knee all the way to the ground. Any tips? We’re stuck!
do you have a video on how to get a horse to back up when you just walk at them? like you showed in the beginning
Hi Sam, you are Amazing at training horse's I love watching your videos 😊
I’ve been trying to teach my horse to bow for a week and a bit more now, but he keeps jumping up and back when he backs up. Any tips on what I should do? I tried all 3 methods and the one that has worked the best so far is the first one , but once he gets close the the ground he jumps up. Love your videos btw :)
Hey 👋 just had one question been doing this with my filly and we’re both stick. She will take her foot back all the way super comfortable with that but will not let her knee touch the ground she just steps as far back to the point her front leg is basically on top of the back leg. I don’t know how to get her to realize she needs to go on her knee.
Thank you. Btw you never did part 2 of the lay down. I’ve achieved getting my horse to go down on cue...but he ROLLS every time then gets right back up. How do I just get him to lay down without rolling
I’m well aware there isn’t a part two for the laydown 🙂
Sam VanFleet that legit was no help to her 💀
Sam VanFleet how long would you say it typically takes to teach the pay down?? Like days vs months?
Thank you
Excelent
Thanks for the video. I have a colt that I have had no choice but to use the John Rarey technique on. It sounds inhumane, but in the end you end up with a very willing horse. My problem is that I have a bit of a clumsy fellow. Any advice for a horse that gets himself tangled up?
I Love your video
Hi! I’ve been trying this with my horse but he’s not rocking back he’s trying to pull away when asking him to rock back. Any ideas
About how long a day do you work on training them to bow? Or any liberty work?
Quick question is it good for a horse to rear up and then fall into a bow position?
I saw the lead rope rapped around your hand, Are you doing that since your comfortable with this horse? I’ve always been taught that it’s not safe since a horse could spook, boom fractured wrist.
At what point was the leadrope wrapped around my hand? Give me a time stamp please 🙂
Sam VanFleet it looked like it at 0:17 but I just now realize that was your bracelet, silly me.
Prefect !
U are so good what U do top job
So cool !!
I've tried holding and pulling his leg back slightly but he just buckles his other leg.. any ideas to prevent this?
Another great video - thanks! Any chance of parts 2 and 3 of your lay down how to??
All the steps are in the first video.
i’m going to be teaching rooster this trick today because it’s been raining so much!! I think I’ll use the second method, in hopes that it will click faster for him. How would you recommend transitioning cues, so that you don’t have to use the rope every time? Would you transition from the rope to using your hand like in the second method?
oops, i meant from using the rope to using your hand in the first* method
How's the halter working out?
This was my first time getting the chance to use it- so far I like it but I’ll have to use it a few more times to decide
Gran trabajo 👍gracias
Could you try and made a more in depth video on how to do the bow with the back up and the crop please? I’m trying to teach the horse I ride how to do it but he’s not quite understanding with the little info I can get from the video.
Will this trick affect the Spanish walk?
I have a stubborn Arabian who hates to even have his knee touch the ground. Has reared before. I'm doing a lot of new bowing stretches getting him comfortable bending down and bending his knees. He'll pick up his foot on his own sometimes but nothing much more then that. Definitely a slow process at his pace until he figured it out! He's definitely trying though!
How I know which side lag is more comfortable to my horse
Can someone tell me if it matters what leg u use bc I trained my horse how to bend her leg and I thought that was a bow when I was little and I found out that there is another cool way to do it and she is so used to the one leg that I would like to just use that one but I’m not sure if there is a certain one u should use
You can use either leg
Sam VanFleet thx! That helps a lot
How do you transition from manually putting their leg where you want it, to them putting their knee down and bowing by themselves? My mare is great at bowing now but I still have to place her leg, we have yet to attach a cue to the move.
Start tapping and then manually do it. Use the new cue, and then the old cue. Sequence your cues to transition it
i love you !!
How did you get your horse used to sitting on him lying down & carrying you up?
What I've been doing with my horse is putting wait on her back using my hands to get her used to it. Then I've been throwing an old towel on her back so looks like somebody is climbing on her back and then put pressure on the towel to simulate a rider. Then I tried hopping on and she was great. I know the towel thing and the pressure on the back sound silly but it actually worked. I'm training the bow so that way I can get on her if there is no mounting block. She ain't tall but neither am I and the first time I tried mounting bareback without a block I just sort of bounced off of her and she just looked at me like what are you doing. Shes used to people sort of bouncing off of her like that or people doing strange things on her back because she is an ex vaulting horse. Anyways hope this helps!
Me : do not have a horse me looking like 👁👄👁
What sip do you use
I got back problems so I have to use a rope 😂
Sometimes she will bow for me without one. Sometimes she's like... nah ill just stand here 😂
im not to sure but im guessing most of these are not good for older horses or it might just be harder
I can’t get my horse to backup when he has his leg raised
I'm having the same problem with my second horse. What I found that helped was going back and working on the back up. I then went back to the bow and was talking to her reassuring her that she can back up on 3 legs and the world isn't going to end if you drop to the ground and show be how polite you can be. So just going back to the back up, comforting them by talking softly, and rewarding them should solve the problem.
I’m trying to reach my boy how to pick up his foot by tapping him the crop/whip, but no matter what I use he thinks I’m trying to get him to lunge. How should I solve this? He is trying so hard so I can’t be mad ☺️
@Willa Eventing thank you so much! It still seems like he is a little bit anxious about being tapped with a crop or whip, would you suggest anything else? 😳
@Willa Eventing I agree! He’s an ottb so I’m sure somewhere along the line something went on that he’s thinking about, thanks so much and I’ll let you know how it goes!!☺️
@Willa Eventing little update!! We haven’t gotten it down yet but I can tell you that he’s definitely not scared of the crop 🤣 I can swing it all around and there’s no reaction, baby steps 😋
My horse puts her knee on the ground using the first method but as soon as it touches the ground she jumps back up. How can I make her hold the position?
Keep slowly increasing how long you ask her to stay down for. Just reward for her slightly touching at the start then raise your expectations
He said, while I'm down here I will get a lil snacky snack
Can they hurt their knee doing this?
👍👍👍👍👍
So I tapped his leg to get us started...got nothing...not even a blink in response, at all ever. Now I'm doing tap-gimme your hoof like for the farrier-release. Correct or incorrect?
I had the same problem as you not for the bow but when training the spanish walk (since she already knew from the spanish walk it really helped with the bow) so I tried several things top and try and get her annoyed didn't work, tap her harder still didn't work. So I did several things that helped fix this. So when you tap and tap and tap they learn to ignore you and they sort of just zone out and get bored or distracted and they don't listen so first things first you have to get their attention otherwise you aren't gonna get far. What I did was I to took a riding crop and whacked my boot hard which brought her back to reality. This may sound like a mean thing to do but it really gets their attention back on you so now that you have their attention it's time to work on the foot problem so what I found that worked with my horse was I gave up on the whip and resulted in using my hand I started by just poking the back of the fetlock it's more sensitive there and she picked up her foot and the second she lifted it I stopped poking and told her what an amazing girl she was. Now I know that the fetlock isn't where you tap but trust me I'm getting to it. So then once she understands that I use the whip and do the same thing. Then I went back to my hand and did the same behind the knee. And then switched to the whip. And whenever she would zone out I'd whack my boot with the crop as a friendly reminder what we are focusing on. So then her feet got more sensitive to the whip and the best thing is is now I could progress to the bow, and the spanish walk which both require this action. I know this seems like a lot but it didn't take long for my Mare to understand this. This shouldn't take longer than a week for your horse to understand. I did two 5-10 minute sessions a day and she got it in 3 days. But it is so worth the wait because it also makes picking feet easier! Hope this helps!
How do you teach your horse to pick up there leg with the third technique?
My horse can do 1 leg bow, but she doesn't want to do 2 legs bow. Are there any ideas how to do that?
Tried this on my wife.. She mule kicked me clawing a hole in the back of my head 😂
I can see myself teaching with 1, and then going into the 3rd for teaching the cue. The second method looks like it can be really hard on their knee
Nope. In all the methods the horse goes onto the knee. You still have to release for the horse rocking back with the second method. As you can see, the horse demonstrating already knows how to bow, so he’s going to go into it fast. I also explained that the rope is the same as a hand holding up the leg, it just makes it easier on the back and you have have more leverage if you have one hopping around 🙂
@@SamVanFleet Makes sense!
Ok, so I have a problem. If Sam or someone out here in the comments who has done this before could give me some advice, that would be great!
My mare has an ok backup, and her feet handling is great. The problem I have encountered is that she is actually quite soft when I pick up her hoof (facing her head ) and I pull on her upper leg. She will immediately yield to my pressure, but not quite how I want her to... she has learned to walk backward on three feet-ish. The first step she takes is with her other front, and then her back feet will move, and then she has to take her bowing leg back for her balance. I need her left front (the one that is supposed to lean, not go down on the knee) to stay where it is, but she’ll hop it back.
Please, if someone could help me out, I would appreciate it so so sooo much. ❤
Sam vanfleet i use treats! so!
I love this. Idk if ill ever teach it. I lift the front right leg to clean/stretch and she tries going on her knees 🥴 while tied. little turd.
I noticed that your horse is a mustang I am going to be trying this with my mustang too
My horse did it in the first try😂
How old is that horse?
When all horses bow to you in part 7
Wh are you lifting your horses hoof like that
So he can bow properly
Horse's knee is in a completely different place
Please mam teach me