For every horse trainer and teacher there is a group of haters who think they can do nothing right, and a group of fans who think they can do nothing wrong. Both groups are wrong.
Words like NEVER or ALWAYS don’t belong in a treatise on riding or training. Guidance is one thing, but unbreakable rules have no place in riding or horsemanship.
The onus is on us to gain the knowledge to critically evaluate which expert is best for our horses. We can’t entirely surrender our horse’s welfare to strangers who only have a narrow view of the bigger picture. The responsibility is ours.
It’s okay if sometimes we stop repeating an exercise for the wrong reason or at the wrong time. Not a problem. We can fix that the next time. But we must never stop asking the questions, why did I ask my horse that and why did I stop asking my horse that?
The first part of the clip shows how much Bundy struggled both physically and mentally. But towards the end I hope you can see a big improvement with them both working more as a team. There was still more work to do, but togetherness and Bundy's softness grew steadily.
Let me outline the principle of just one method that I have found helps many green horses. I think this approach is useful on some horses that are learning to yield to pressure and do not have to undo a history of resistance and dullness.
