Sample Our Newsletter From "Good Now Bad Later," Issue 10, part 2 of our FREE monthly newsletter
Re: horse training books
Every time you teach an exercise, your horse will go through the same learning cycle. He'll go from "Bad" to "Good" to "Worse" to "Not So Bad" to "Learned." That's the typical cycle: Bad. Good. Worse. Not so bad. Learned.
You know "Good." "Good" is where we get excited. It's the part where we want to show off to our friends. We want to show somebody how soft our horse has become, so we walk over to brag to somebody, pick up our reins and the horse sticks his nose straight out, stiff as a board. We're embarrassed and our friends snicker. We've just entered the "worse" stage. It's the part where "he was getting but now he's not."
It's during the "worse" part where we typically second-guess our training. "The horse was good but now he's worse. I must be doing something wrong." You begin to think you need to change what you're doing. "Maybe my hand's in the wrong position" or "I'm using too little pressure." You begin to think you're doing something that's not correct. That's when we're most likely to change what we're doing. But that's the most important time for us to not change, to keep on doing what we're doing. You've got to get through this stage by being consistent. Keep doing the same thing over and over so that the horse realizes all the movements that are "mistakes" and which single movement is correct. It's consistency and time that teach your horse.
Based on the Dear John section of John Lyons' Perfect Horse Magazine, John answers real questions posed by readers, and we get to see how the textbook approach becomes real life solutions.
In this book, we have brought together the best of Dear John, as it were, incorporating reader letters about training and care. We have packed this book with all the editorials we could fit in. John tells us his view of many topics, which helps us understand how we can develop a good relationship with our horse.
Major sections in this book include:
• Answers To Your Ground Handling Questions
• Answers To Your Riding Questions
• My Horse Won't
• Answers To Your Health Care Questions
• Readers Share Tips and Stories
• But I'm Scared
A Partial List of Topics from the "Ground Handling" section:
• Standing still for shots
• Unbridling problems
• Crosstie problems
• Ear-Pinning at dinner time
• Cinchy and nippy
• Loping for the first time
• Move forward or speed up
A Partial List of Topics from the "Health Care" section:
• Bowed tendon advice
• Tail chewing
• How cold is too cold?
"Bedtime Reading for the Horse Lover" also includes 19 editorials written by John as formerly published in Perfect Horse Magazine. John's sage advice will provide insight into his way of thinking - resulting in a framework to help you put training and health care decisions into place and perspective.
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