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Welcome to the March 2007 issue of "Lyons Training 101," written by Josh Lyons (John's son) and John Lyons Certified Trainer Keith Hosman.
Have you hit a training plateau? Do you just seem to be riding your horse around (maybe every day) without seeing improvement? Well, this month we offer three short articles, each crafted to offer you "the keys to change." And while they are short articles, sometimes it's the simple changes that have the most profound effect on your training.
This month's easy, step-by-step horse training articles:
- Do Everything Better with "How Far How Fast How Little"
- Keys To Improvement: Every Time You Ride
- Thought vs Action: Think Different, Be Different
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The following example is appropriate for horses of any discipline. Let's say we have a reining horse – and we want to make his spin better. We have a recipe to improve his performance and there are three ingredients in this recipe. They are "further," "faster," and "less."
To begin, I don't worry about anything except "further." I do whatever it takes to make something go further. (In this case, the spin "action.") So I look at his front feet and I see that the step they take covers a distance of, let's say, two feet. I make it my goal to go further, maybe to two and a half feet. I'll then spin my horse; I'll kiss or kick with both legs or do whatever it takes to make that step bigger – and that's all I'll concentrate on. I'll only work on that for about thirty seconds, just till that one step is "further." (Maybe it sweeps and covers three feet.)
The next part is "faster." So now I keep the "further" – and I make it "faster." As soon as he gets faster, that is, as soon as he covers that same three feet in less time, I quit. Again, I do whatever it takes to make it faster – and for only about thirty seconds. Pretty soon, the step is further and it's faster....
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How many times do you think you've ridden your horse? A thousand? Five hundred? Just guess. What if every time you got on, you improved something, no matter how small? If you could just see some little improvement for each of those thousand times you've been on that horse, that's a thousand percent improvement. After all, you can't get the horse trained all at once; the key is to make some small improvement every time you get in that saddle.
Your mind set, when you get in that saddle, is that something is going to get better. Now, it might not be what you'd planned on working on because it's not a matter of what you want to work on that day – your horse decides for you. You may want to work on your right lead, but the horse says "No, I'm just going to run away." So you may not work on leads at all; you may just work on loping.... read the rest of "Keys To Improvement " |
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"Snaffle Bits vs Shank Bits"
"The snaffle bit allows me to work his head side to side and get him to begin to utilize his neck. The difference is that, with a snaffle bit, if I pick up the reins and I putt ten pounds of pressure on the rein, that's exactly what the horse feels, ten pounds of pressure. It's pound for pound. If I pull a pound here he feels a pound there. With a leverage bit, if I pull 1 pound he feels 10 pounds down there. That's a big difference. When I train my horses, I'm always using a snaffle bit. Do I ever ride in a shank bit? Yes, because I show my horses and when I show it's required.
"What a leverage bit does is give me the feeling of having more control than I actually have. But it doesn't. The leverage (or shanked) bit doesn't give me any more control than any other bit."
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