Print Out Training Articles

Did you know that you can print out most of my training articles with a single click?

Just look for the "Print This Article" link at the top of each article - and create a portable copy of all available training.

Find articles at  Horsemanship101.com/Articles

- print pages from your own printer
- carry them when you train for easy reference
- leave your books on the shelf
- articles are formatted to print easily

Do you get on your horse and forget critical training steps? Why not print out these how-to articles and carry them with you?

Want to see for yourself? Here are a few samples:
(some are large files and take a moment to load)

- What Not To Do When Your Horse Bucks
- How Do I Get My Horse's Attention?
- The Snaffle Bit vs The Shank Bit
- Good Now Bad Later Why Does This Happen?

All training features the easy, proven methods of John Lyons.

Again, the web address for the article archive is: http://horsemanship101.com/Articles.

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Hurry Up And Stop

Here's a favorite horse-training tip, excerpted from our article "Hurry Up And Stop":

"Have you ever trained your dog to sit? What did you say to your dog after you told it to sit? You probably told it to "stay." Why did you do that? If the dog sits, he has to stay. In the same respect, I don't have a "stop" on my horse. I only have a "go" and a "back."

Now, I may only want the horse to stop – but in his mind he should be thinking "back up." If I were to ride forward and then stop – and then apply more pressure to the rein to back up, then I'm teaching three cues there. One "go," two "stop," three "back up." So in effect what I'd be doing is telling the horse "Four pounds of pressure on the rein means stop, six pounds means back up."

So, if I really want to make my stops quicker, I only teach "go" and "back up." Now, for you reiners, I'm not talking about how to lengthen the slide here – I'm talking about getting a quicker, more responsive stop. I'm teaching the horse that when I say stop that means stop.

My goal is to take away any hesitation time, with no pause between moving forward then moving backward. I work on "go" then "back up," "go," then "back up." Tip: Only work on this for about 10 or 15 minutes at a time. If you work too much on this the horse gets tired and it gets to be too much...."

Read the entire article when you visit Horsemanship101.com/Articles. You'll find it listed under "Riding Training."

Thanks for reading - and regards,

Keith Hosman, John Lyons Certified Trainer
Horsemanship101.com

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Here's a sample from Day Two:
"Snaffle Bits: Their Use in Controlling Your Speed "

"The snaffle bit is the tool you'll use to do this training most effectively. The reason is simple: The very nature of a shanked or leverage bit causes the horse to stiffen his body from nose to tail. Think of a baseball bat. Rigid and unyielding, right? Shank bits cause our horse to stiffen their bodies in the same way — making training as we've described very difficult because it causes the horse to line up all the bones in his body, one behind the other. He then uses his entire "skeletal structure" to brace against our requests. Why not make this training business a thousand times simpler by using a bit that encourages our horse to stay soft? Snaffle bits enable us to soften one part of the horse at a time; they get your horse to "unlock up" and to move more fluidly.

Now, some of you are saying to yourselves "My horse won't go in a snaffle bit" for whatever reason. You're thinking things like "My horse has to go in a side pull otherwise he whips his head around because he just doesn't like snaffle bits;" or "His last owner smacked his teeth with the bit every day for years;" or "I need the shank for control" ... etc."

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