Carson James

20/06/2024

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17/06/2024

Blog Article: TROTTING DIAGONALS For Strength And Balance

We must be conscious of which diagonal we are posing on so that we can make sure to balance it out. If not, the horse will get stronger on one side. Therefore, he will be crooked with uneven muscling.

Trotting diagonals is one of the best strength building and balancing exercises you can do. Learn how to do them correctly in this article.

15/06/2024

Most horse owners sincerely want the best for their horse. That requires some education on our part. In this video, we talk about the danger of using bad tack with some examples of fairness vs cruelness.

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14/06/2024

A thing about round penning, and or a catching aggressive and / or apprehensive horses.

This below is something Tom dorrance talked about --

This isn’t word for word, but you’ll get the gist.

“Sometimes I’ll just get a small handful of grain. Horses don’t really understand quantity, so I can make a handful of grain last a really long time by just giving them a couple pellets here and there.”

“You wouldn’t try to reach out and touch them in the beginning…. You just want to build their confidence on approaching.”

This below is some of my own stuff…

If you kind of watch them, they will go through multiple different headspaces including evasion with a little bit of aggressiveness while doing it, real curious and cautious but not aggressive, a little pushy, but pretty confident. Pushy and aggressive at the same time as well.

They will go through all of these and a lot of the time it will change every other second and it can be any mixture of these things…..

Try to read them and see when they are getting warmer to the type of horse you want.

If they come in kind of aggressive, headshaking and pushy, you can push them back out, but it doesn’t have to be real big…… if you go to big, they might switch back into full on evasion and scared. On the other hand, you might need to get pretty big in order to get them to back off an inch or two and change their way of thinking. (although doing so may cause some temporary evasion)

There will be a spot in there where they look like they want to come in and check you out, but it’s more of a curious cautiousness. This is the one you want. If any other horse shows up, then send it back out and let it try coming in again.

There are so many variations to this stuff it’s pretty hard to tell you exactly what to do because what you should do one second could be the worst thing to do the next.

As far as something, I know for a fact that you should try to get going……

Can they walk five or six laps around you both directions ?

If you kind of ease off and maybe step out in front of them just a little bit, can you stop them and have them turn their nose in and look at you a little?

Without them facing up, can you walk up (not to their face) but to their shoulder area, and get within eight or 10 feet of it?

If / when you do this, do they stay put and have enough confidence to keep looking at you as you do this ?

I would imagine if you go out there with a bucket of grain, put it in your lap (or hold it) and let them get used to putting their face in by you without trying to touch them for a few sessions, this could probably help a lot.

Keep in mind that being able to have one come in is not more or less important than being able to have one go back out.

In both scenarios they should be sure enough to be able to do both of these without much weirdness (a lot of them get kind of weird, choppy, and rushy when we try to get them to go back out).

I when you move them back out it troubles them, experiment with being a little softer about moving them back out.

Generally, if one is aggressive, I will push them back off pretty firmly, even if that makes them apprehensive. That's still a better headspace than aggressive…. Once they’re not aggressive, but just more on the cautious side, you can start letting that horse work its way in on you (but ready to block and push out if it seems to be turning into the horse, you don’t want).

11/06/2024

For this week’s podcast, I’m gonna go over a few handy tips that I like to do when saddling.

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10/06/2024

Blog Article: HORSE BALKING TRAINING TIPS
There is nothing more frustrating than when a horse balks, freezes up, and refuses to move. These tips about dealing with a balking horse should make life better for both you and your equine partner.

Here's some horse balking training tips to help your horse overcome his inability to move forward when he freezes up and unsure what to do.

08/06/2024

Horse training is more about a way of thinking than sequential steps. To find success, we often have to shift our thinking. How can working with a horse be compared to climbing a ladder? Watch this video to find out.

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01/06/2024

In many cases, a horse’s ears are an indication of their mind and attention. It’s one of the little things, often ignored, that can really get your horse’s thoughts lined up with yours.

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29/05/2024

Honored to be the featured guest on the 'Better Horses Podcast' with Ed Adams. Listen to the episode here:

‎Education · 2024

28/05/2024

Blog Artice: STOP FIGHTING WITH YOUR HORSE

Do you wish you could stop fighting with your horse? That you and your horse would quit having different ideas of what needs to happen? Read this article for more info.

Do you wish you could stop fighting with your horse? That you and your horse would stop having different ideas of what needs to happen?

26/05/2024

“All I’m trying to do at this clinic is be the middleman between you and your horse to help you know what your horse needs” - Seguin, Texas

26/05/2024

Day #3 - Seguin TX clinic - Church Service - Tying halters - Petting doggies

24/05/2024

Some tough clinic participants are hanging in there.

24/05/2024

Day #1 - Seguin TX Clinic - First lesson - Tips for backing a trailer

20/05/2024

As a general rule….

why do they say you should never use both reins at the same time for slowing down or stopping?

20/05/2024

Blog Article: SOLVING HORSE PROBLEMS
Don’t assume the horse’s ‘problem’ is where it happens to show up. Go back to the actual foundational root of any issue and fix it there.
Read the entire article here:

Any horse problem can be solved by going back to the root cause. Don't assume the actual problem is where it happens to show up.

19/05/2024

If “it” is not working in bigger situations / more speed / different environment etc…

"It" won’t be working FULLY ENOUGH in the slow speeds / familiar environment etc….

But sometimes it’s hard to realize that "it" is not working down lower because things are much less obvious. 

Always practice being aware …. Every step , every speed, every ear twitch , every unbalanced foot placement , and every thought they're having / not having etc.

“It” being any and everything.

19/05/2024

If only I could drive to clinics and tie halters at the same time. Anybody know if Tesla makes duallys?😂

18/05/2024

Before a horse does anything, they have to think about it. Whether your horse is spooking at an object on the trail or doing the opposite of what you ask, they had to take their attention off you in order to take those actions.

We’re gonna visit and talk about how to get there early to change those thoughts before they manifest into problems.

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