Teaching a Horse to Come up Beside You on A Mounting Block
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- Опубліковано 10 бер 2023
- My first book The Principles of Training is available now! In this book I talk about the 12 principles that effective horse people use to work with and train their horses. After training horses for over 30 years I've witnessed countless methods used by professional horse trainers. Each one of these methods fell under one of 12 fundamental principles. In order to work with your horse more effectively, you must understand the thought process behind each training decision. The Principles of Training details the reasons why effective training works.
In this short video, I discuss one of the principles, Application of Aids, and how it relates to teaching a horse how to come up to you on a mounting block.
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"If you can GET them to do something, then you ALWAYS have to GET them to do something. Whereas, if you TEACH them to do something, it gets easier and easier and easier" Thank you for helping us become better educated horse people, and as a result our horses confident, happy and cooperative.
I'm humbled to be a part of your journey
Wasn’t that just the best statement ever about training!
Your techniques and principles are how I train my mare and the trainers at my old barn treated me like a was some silly hippie. Until they watched her learn neat tricks like this quickly and happily.
This is such a perfect of example of how learning to slow down and have some patience results in faster results with far less pressure. Love the connection. I am rewiring my way of thinking to achieve a more in depth relationship with my horse and try to not be so fixated on the training part
I love how the dog pops up! Lol
This is so enlightening. I’m delighted and deflated at the same time! All those times, as a keen but self taught youngster, I struggled to maneuver my pony alongside a convenient bank, so I could scramble up bareback! Poor pony! She was very forgiving, but what a different experience we’d have had, if such education as this had been around then!
Feel a bit the same, enlightened and ashamed because of some of my lack of the insight.
What you said here about Chance being 'easy to train to do the wrong thing' really made the little lightbulb go on in my head where I remembered the application of your aids chapter in the book and now get why my house rabbit keeps coming after me lately for treats and medications when I don't have anything. I realized I've very recently accidentally been training her to respond to more and more subtle cues that I've got something for her and now she's getting way too sensitive and taking my actions as a cue when they're not. Back to the basics, I'm sure she'll be good soon, she's a clever little one. (BTW it's amazing how much horse stuff I've been able to use with my bunnies over the years. Watching you talking about staying below threshold to approach a nervous horse in order to develop trust always reminds me so much of how I got my now ten year old buck to allow me to walk up and pet him w/o him trying to run away when he was a nervous five month old. He's now one of the happiest, most affectionate bunnies I've had, literally will climb into my lap for pets-- you'd never guess how nervous he was and how much he hated being pet as a youngster. I've started trying to translate your methods when talking to people who are struggling with scared bunnies.)
This is so wonderful! Lucky bunnies!
I just love the way you talk to your horses. So respectful. To respect gains respect.
Great differentiation between teaching a horse to do something and making them do something. The critical “pause” is so key. Thanks.
Taught this to my gelding a couple of years ago, whenever we're on a trail and I climb up on sth. (tree stump) he "parks" himself, ready for me to mount. I absolutely love it but it got me into trouble at an extreme trail park where I was supposed to stand on one tree stump, trying to lunge him around other other tree stumps and he basically refused to walk away frome me and kept trying to park. In the end I just laughed and hugged him.....
Love your little dog trying to steal the show !
I remember when I first started riding my new Haflinger gelding, this one day, I got up on my mounting platform and when I stepped into the stirrup he started walking away and I was off balance and had to jump down. As I had been watching your videos and having great success with your training method, I turned to you to help solve this problem of my horse not standing still when being mounted. Haflingers are VERY smart and it didn't take him long to catch on. Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge!🥰 PS: I have the kindle version of your new book.
Sometimes I get ahead of the process without even knowing it. This is a great reminder to break things down a bit. That horse looks like he suprised you.... Lovely surprise though!
I love seeing how well your horse has learned this! My mare is super smart... and it was VERY easy to teach her really really well to pivot and side pass away from me..... and she's very enthusiastic about it .. only problem is I was trying to teach her to sidepass toward me 😂 Your method and cues are different than what I was using though, so I think I'll keep her super solid side pass skills and teach her to pick me up like this 😂
Thanks for sharing Warwick!
😂😂the dog is so funny popping up like that 😂
I discovered your channel with "Raleigh and Links", another channel.
I stopped riding 10 years ago because after 11 years of riding, I just kept falling and falling. I even don't dare to stand next to horses anymore. But I'm amazed by good trainers like you!
Such a useful skill. Getting on and off, such a dangerous and precarious situation. Need that horse to be focused on what is going on and be paying attention to you getting on. Love your videos and your methods.
Yes. Like flying on a commercial jet. Take off and landing the most dangerous parts!
Such a useful and easily applied video! I love how you break things down for us just like you do for the horses. Also, how cute and sweet was Chance nuzzling you and being so affectionate! He has certainly bloomed into a gorgeous fellow, too. xo
I’ve been following WS for 11 years and the only reason I’ve followed him For that long is because what he says and does makes perfect sense and it works. I learnt how to become a more patient and productive person and work as a team with my horse ! Cant wait to get your book Warwick and getting a new horse soon! So will be logging on to the online training 👍🏼thank you so much for all your videos xx
Ellie UK XX
I’m going to begin using this technique asap. My horse has awful mounting block manners, and always walks off. He’s lovely and eager to learn under saddle, so I don’t know that it’s simply “I don’t want to work today”. It seems automatic.
Having had Border Collies for many years now, this video made me giggle.
I am buying your hardback addition of your book for my equine science library. So worth the money! If anyone is a true horseman and horse scientist, you are Warwick!
Thanks for another video!
Thank you, very good video. Perfect timing for me.
Amazing !!!!!!! Warwick u are the best trainer !! Gratula !
Such a great video. Thank you
I have taught my one horse to sidle over to wherever I am (since I don't have any official mounting place and just pick between various opportune structures). The way I figured to do it was that I had already taught her to touch my hand with her nose. Then I slowly managed to transfer to touching my hand finally with her side belly. Because she likes to figure out what we're doing, I have to clarify that there is moving away and moving towards, so that way she has to listen instead of being smarter than me and already knowing what is going to happen before it happens. I'm working on the aid of the word that I use, and also of my hand. I had thought about using a whip early on, but then I realized that I wanted to try to use less props that require carrying things, like a whip.
Awesome! I've been working on this very thing. Thank you so much.
I bought a horse last year, dominant, clever, always interacting.if there is something spooky he will stop and look at it and sometimes even walk in the direction to get a better look.
We are now trying your method but he tries to climb himself on the block or walks over it sideways (and i fall down😂). Or he parks but then always walks 1 step backwards to look at me.
Thank you Warwick, your advice has been very helpful!!
Brilliant, thank you for sharing!!
Ordered the book so excited
These was an extremely helpful breakdown. Thank you!!!
I love the short videos. Bite size bits of info and inspiration. Excellent for watching (and listening) during tea and lunch breaks.
I have been trying to articulate the getting versus teaching thing for a while now, thanks for helping me finally put it into words.
Outstanding information Sir! Was just about to start training mine to come on over. Thanks for what you do!
That is really cool. I got the email like 4 in the morning and I was reading it it says that your first book came out so I had to read it and after 2 days it arrived. Didn't finish it yet but in the first chapter I already learned something new for my anxiety of the canter. It helped and I am making progress but it is a long way to go.
Lovely demonstration. Thank you for breaking it down into steps.
Love your assistant manager keeping an eye out. 🐕
I guess it forces you to identify what qualifies as an aid. If you were to start every session with this horse asking for the horse to file up to the bucket where you stand, then I wouldn't be surprised for your mere presence to potentially be an aid to go over the bucket, possibly even before you yourself stand there. I do like the planning ahead to see that you ideally will give the most gentle and subtle aid, and that might be just raising the whip, or even the hand, to cue him to sidle over to you. I did a subscription, but a handful of years back, and I always remember the one where, for steering, you let the horse walk freely and when the horse goes one way, you cue to go the other way until the horse responds and you release. Sometimes I just use this as a query for Where is Your Mind, and How Can We Focus Together exercise to start. Because I know that I tend to cue steering in ways that I might even be less aware of, I play games like, trying to steer with the seat, or touching the neck, or just looking. Even if my horse doesn't initially respond to a newer or gentler focus, there is always somewhere in the string of cues that is reliable, so, if I end up picking up the rein, so be it. But, this helps me clarify my own mind, too, because I'm figuring out what my aids are. This helps me when I am problem-solving too, how to formulate aids and a process, and also how to pick apart unintended aids that I might be giving that are fostering a response. Thank you for the great videos which clarify my mind!
Sounds like you are on a wonderful journey with horses, keep up the great work.
Brilliant, love the teach how vs do
I have a young mare that is sooo smart. I have to really take my time with. I have been teaching her to pick up her front feet now all I do is touch her on the upper part of her leg and she jerks her foot up and holds it up. Which some people would mistake for possibly striking.
Love how you broke this down with reminders to pause between adding aids. What do you do if horse is great to line itself up, But when you start to get on they move sideways or ahead?
My friend taught me to use a dressage “whip”, a golf club with the head cut off or ? to tap the off side hip/butt while making motions towards me. It seems to be working for the pickup. My mare did it too well moving almost on top of the mounting block, lol, when I just motioned with my hands to come to me. Later I had to get off to retrieve keys that had fallen out of my pocket. I walked only a little ways before I found a large rock in the bushes. I was able to get the mare next to the rock into the brush and mounted. It’s so nice to not have to worry about getting on your horse. She’s fat and has a really round back so it’s difficult for me to mount from the ground on this particular horse.
Makes me thinks of the “Taxi” clip 😁
Thats exactly how I taught the taxi clip
@@WarwickSchiller I realize this & I keep grinning thinking if you calling out: “taxi” 😂
Love it!
Also, really excited to hear you are in Paso Robles now! My sister lives there, and I hope to make it to a clinic at some point.
@@KingsMom831 :-)
Love the doggie video bomber. 😂
That dog was cracking me up xD
The dog!!!! LOL
Greetings....from the Western North Carolina Mountains...! Such an excellent thing to teach EVERY horse....I've always known this to be called "Siding Up".... (what a horror it is....to witness a horse that won't stand still to be mounted....and then runs off before the rider is even fully on ! ). When I was "spring cleaning" my tack room....I happened upon an OLD bridle device called a "Berry Breaking Bridle" . I had received this way back in 1971..... when I was 14 and just rescued my first horse....along with some "horse breaking" pamphlets by Professor Berry. Do you remember him by any chance ? He had some very interesting ways of working with horses....which I believe should stay back there in the 70's...!! Thank you for sharing your horse training techniques with all of us....there will be more competent & caring horse owners because of it. Sincerely, Cindy 🐴
I remember Dr Berry pamphlets lol. I'm just across the state line from you I think.
I've been watching these videos. They are all great. I can't afford to have a horse of my own. I'd like to know how to build a connection with a riding school horse?
Oh - wish you lived close - I've a back issue - so can't work my mare like I would like - if you were close - you could come out every day! Maybe see if someone close to you is in a similar situation? you would be helping the owner as well as the horse - as well as building your horse skills ! :)
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I love this video - what a good subject Chance is!
I tried it with my young mare.I quietly stood on the mounting block then lifted my dressage whip up before reaching over her body and tapping her on the right side of her quarters. She glared at me then shifter her quarters in the wrong direction 😂
I tried several times ….. what am I doing wrong?
Hows all your ground work?
@@WarwickSchiller I’ve been rather flushed with success up until now! She’s quite young and pushy but has quickly learnt to move her quarters and forehand over and to step backwards. Used a dressage whip initially then just inclined my body.
What if happens if your horse doesn’t move a muscle?
G O L D
I'm struggling to get my mustang to respond to taps, I think I might need to back it up a bit
Mustangs tend to go into freeze mode easily, so before you try to get your horse to respond, make sure they are capable of it
@@WarwickSchiller thank you!! I just got your book this week and am going to join the site as well. She's a year gentled (by someone else) and she seems relaxed, bidding for connection which I engage in. Looking forward to joining and learning!
Can we get journey on hats with the podcast logo!!?
I believe they are for Patreon members
That was excellent! I liked how he licked and chewed when he came in. Just like a baby.
I taught my horse to do this and I’m a little confused on what to do now bc he is stepping into mounting block, has even knocked it over. He gets too close to me when I’m trying to mount. I’m wondering if I need to reinforce my “bubble” of energy but worried about pushing him off after I spent time teaching him to come in.
When teaching a horse to come towards you, its so important to make sure that you can move them away just as easily. Dont be worried about the fact he might not be as good at coming to you, just reteach it, making sure both parts work as well as each other.
@@WarwickSchiller you are the best! Thank you for taking the time to reply. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
@@WarwickSchillerthanks for answering that - I also have a horse that will come way too close and was wondering about this myself .... she is like an armored tank - and I've been trying to ramp up my touches - now I realize - I need to do the opposite and let her think about some delicate touches for a while - I sure can't push her around ! LOL
God gave me a damaged mare. Once she learned to present to the block she would almost be desperate to do it and rush sideways towards it. She's proof that what Warwick said is true. She is so anxious to please and ready to learn that she is vulnerable to learn unwanted behaviour very quickly and once learned, it's incredibly difficult to unlearn. After 4 years I still won't ride her in the school. She must have had a very bad experience in a school and I'm worried she'll get triggered and take leave of her senses and I'm too old to be bucked off. We have a great relationship out hacking and trust each other more every day but I may never feel confident enough to get on her in the school despite her stepping in towards me saying come on mum, get on! I would like a round pen and wear a harness attached to a bungee like they have in the circus for people learning acrobatics on liberty horses before I risked it 😄
You should really look into Tara Davis and Celeste lazarus to learn about emotional regulation 🥰
Wondering if Warwick is okay. Why so thin and unshaven? Hope alls well.
That's rude
Hey Warwick, how do I, as a young newcomer to a barn, convince the trainer to stop leading horses with zero slack in the lead rope?
Her logic is "if they spook I don't want them to run me over"
I tried to explain that they're less likely to spook when they have their head, and they won't jump directly on top of you or take your arm off like they would with zero slack but... I got nowhere.
If I could go elsewhere I would but... I'm taking a long trip on horseback in Ireland this summer and need to at least understand English cues so.... Help?
"'m taking a long trip on horseback in Ireland this summer and need to at least understand English cues"
Horses are horses, you dont need to learn "English" cues.
As far as the trainer goes, shes not ready to nhear it
@@WarwickSchiller thank you for responding, you're totally right