Teaching Pantherwalk
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- PantherWalk is one of the most fun and useful exercises for both horse and human.
No horse needs to do this; no human needs to train this.
But the benefits and side-effects are powerful, and work with almost ANY horse -- from the fire-breathing dragon to the "energy saver."
ANYBODY can train this. You don't need expert horse skills, just a willingness to explore and have fun.
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Disclaimer: we use +R / positive-reinforcement with a marker signal (for me, it's a clicker) to teach this. If you’re new to training with food, this is NOT the exercise to start with. Although we often DO teach it to horses very early in their training/re-training/re-hab, it can be quite frustrating and stressful for the horse. If the horse is still having ANY food anxiety, that should be worked on FIRST.
As we are in "mud season" right now, I'm reminded how much I love PantherWalk, because it's one of the few HARD, high-effort, high-work exercises that we can do SAFELY when the ground is too slippery (or the space too small) for higher speed.
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This video is a companion to the Crunches, Self-Carriage, and Straightness videos.
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Wonderful! Seems to be a good time for horses with human! Just being! 💚 Tanks a lot!
I've been truly struggling (and that's an understatement) to understand engagement and how to achieve it for a very long time. I can't express how ingenious this is, but also so simple to understand and begin to put into practice. I think this will be a lot of fun for my horse and I. I'm still not sure about a lot of things, especially after I get in the saddle, but this video has left me feeling like I'm actually starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together... even if that's a 2,000 piece puzzle.
As someone who did your Project Proprius, this is such a great refresher on all the benefits and variations of Panther Walk. Thank-you!
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You watched to the end 🙏❤️
Thanks a lot for sharing your gorgeous training methods. Its so much more fun than all the traditional horsetraing , I watch at the barn every day. And your horses look a lot prouder and happier, too!
I've learned a lot about motivating horses from your videos and felt inspired to experiment more with intrinsic motivation. Its fun for both my pony and me and I'm curious how far this intrinsic stuff can take us.
Ohhh thank-you so much for telling me!! 🙏
This is what I needed. Always had the feeling the horse had to make the choice to get engaged. Now I know how to help him to make this choice.
Thanks for sharing.
Lovely words to things we do with feeling. Teaching my old boy Blizz to do this took aaaaaaagggges! Starting from standing leg left. I was learning with him. With Brisingr it went so fast! Something clicked with him a week ago that made him go from stomping higgildypiggildy to a badass walk. I think it was me asking Blizz jambette and Brisingr being the jealous boy he is just said: Hold my beer and give me a day to think.
Big YES on having the forward movement being key as well as having other cues at hand. Living in a flat environment there is no slope around to use, I’ve added some travers (hindquarters in) and poles to help us as well as the lean back. (Our crunches are still a puzzle but as Blizz can still do this.. I have confidence those will come too)
Making a hill is a work I progress on our farm.. can’t wait till summer
Do X while doing Y is so much fun.. I’ve had my horse cantering sideways accidentally in play as he responded to an aid I didn’t known was giving.
I love all of this! I can almost picture Brisingr doing a “hold my beer 🍺 “. He has so much presence / personality 😁.
I did not have a hill when I first started all this, but the hills here let me be lazy 💁♀️.
I strongly recommend just making a very small hill artificially just with dirt moved from one place to another. I’ve even made one by hand shoveling (for several days) 😳🥵, but my neighbor with a tractor made me a great one in about 20 minutes. This property has a slope, but the ones I like to train on are the artificial hills made from excavating (because they are short and have different steepness.)
But when I didn’t have hills, I used obstacles and different challenges. Was more work and creativity for *me* but still lets the fun exploration emerge. You are much more creative and intuitive than I am, and you already have the best training “tool” - more than one horse 😁🤗
Thank you so much for this! Very inspiring!
You’re so welcome!! Thank-you for watching 🙏
This is what I have been waiting for 🤩 Thank you
Yay! You’re welcome 😁🤗
Thanks! I really enjoyed this video! I am just starting my relationship with my new horse. Looking forward to clicker training and teaching this.
this is awesome !
This inspires me to pick up pantherwalk + forward with my horse more often again!
Your horse is already awesome 😎. But you were a Fabulous PantherWalker with my guys! Except Nimo hasn’t learned yet… maybe you’ll have to come back and help me teach him 😁🙏
@@KathySierraVideo he is❤️ but I love the reminders when I forget about an excercise. We're working on getting his front hooves more balanced (he has slight high low syndrome) and I think doing more forward PW could help him with this, because the tendons tighten with differently shaped front hooves. I just keep forgetting about different exercises for certain periods of time, when I am distracted by other activities😁 just chaos brain things
@@KathySierraVideo I so wish I could come over, but it's soo hard atm. As soon as the chance appears in the future I will come visit again❤️
Apologies in advance for spamming you with another comment😅 I should have known that commenting before finishing the video is not a good idea. I am almost disappointed that the video is not longer, because I'm not finished with the tiramisu I am making yet😂 love the sequence where Bert is talking over that happy little accident of Draumur playing with bubble wrap! I have also definitely added "catch the bag walking edition" to my list of things to try✅
Nothing you say is ever going to be *spam* 😜🤗
So when a horse walks into water and they paddled at it and stretched their head down while going in - that's pantherwalk?
Wondering if you can give advice for playing with a horse that wants to panther walk exuberantly towards me? It’s fun and I haven’t gotten kicked yet, but it’s a bit high on the spectrum of chaos. Creative-minded though I am, I can’t figure out a protected contact option in the spaces I have to work with.
Ahhh everyone has their own way, but I’ll tell you what I do personally if I can’t be in protected contact:
1. My horses have learned that if I am not holding a target in my hand, we are NOT in “game on” mode, so there is never a reason to do it toward me if I’m not holding a target, stick, clicker, etc. But some horses take time to figure that out, and so they do a lot of experimenting at first… so that’s why I use other things too…
2. If it’s an issue, I literally will NEVER click/mark for something like this unless I am *beside* the horse, not ever in front of them. My horses might come toward me at speed, but if it’s in PantherWalk I would step to the side of them and keep going from beside them.
3. Maybe too late for you now, 😁but I learned the hard way to never teach or reward a movement until after I already know it’s going to be safe, either protective contact OR (my personal choice) until I know the horse is comfortable with me being beside them and out of range of the front legs.
4. Use objects as targets that the horse learns to move toward instead of toward you. Example, I can point at the mat and have the horse PantherWalk toward the mat, away from me.
Overall, I don’t like to spend much time in front of the horse when doing things, so they are maybe not thinking about that as much. I wait until they come up to me, then I immediately move into a position usually behind their shoulder.
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Horses are great at probability learning though, so if you just STOP rewarding PantherWalk unless they are beside you, it usually takes very little time for them to stop doing it. Or, you can quickly teach a *different* movement for when they come toward you… something that feels safer (maybe a collected walk?) and make it VERY high reinforced so the horse then offers that when coming toward you. Then transition back to PantherWalk once you are beside them…
Thanks for providing such a thoughtful and detailed response. I've definitely made some mistakes along the way, but for some reason this horse appears to like me right in front of him. Given his background before I got him as a traumatized sporthorse, and his general presentation as burned out / low energy...I ended up rewarding anything and everything that awakened his love of movement. To be honest, I don't regret this because he went from stuck to vivacious -- but safety is important and probability learning sounds like a good direction for us at this point. Cheers!@@KathySierraVideo
What que do you teach the horse for the panther walk before adapting it as an exercise under rider?😊
Everyone does it their own way, but I personally use a “lazy” way 😁…
1. I use a verbal cue (“step”)
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2. I use my little target/pocket pointer
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If I’m planning to ride it, I spend time doing it from the ground with myself in the position I will be in while riding, in my case I keep myself next to the horse just behind the withers. That way, the horse sees my cues with the pointer from the same place he will see them in riding (except on his back my hand will obviously be higher).
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3. I use environment cues… things I do for a week or two before trying to ride it, where we make a temporary habit of PantherWalk in a specific location. For example, I might put a ground pole down and cue PantherWalk each time we go over the pole (with me on the ground). Very quickly the horse associates that pole in that location with PantherWalk. If all my other cues are too messy / unclear, the environment cue is almost a guarantee. Then later I can transfer that cue to something else in the saddle, and do not need to use the pole (or whatever environment cue I pick).
It is called “passo spagnolo” si c’è 500 years
Spanish walk is done with the horse's head up higher. This is a variation on it which affords more freedom of expression.
@@karroten ok, buy to me it’s the same