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Who did you get your training skills from?

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Hey all,

Just thought I would get on here since I haven't been on in a few weeks. Got me a new horse!! Have been extremely busy! This horse is actually my daughters. I get most of my training through online videos.

Kass :)
 
#3 ·
Time and wet saddle pads are great teachers. We learned from other horse people in our area, RFD TV and lots of reading research. I've learned a bunch from this horse forum too :wink:
 
#5 ·
My mom. Haha. =]

She's owned, trained and rode horses for a good 25+ years now. A good amount of those years she spent having a successful show career showing Arabs. So she knows what she's doing. lol.

I love having my mom as my trainer. It's pretty handy. :lol:
 
#6 ·
Lots and lots of lessons, I started riding when I was 6 and always took lessons. Also rode a lot of different horses.
I think probably the fastest and most effective way to learn if you eventually want to train on your own is to get a job as a working student somewhere. You learn all of the aspects of horse care/barn management and get unlimited lessons and lots of free education.

Watching a lot of videos and reading a lot of different books helps too, but is hard to correct a problem you dont know you have (sitting off to one side, for example).
 
#7 ·
where to start...

lots and lots of lessons, hanging around the barn helping when i didnt have lessons, asking my trainer every question i could think of.

shadowing vets and apprenticing different trainers at different barns, some places if u volunteer will teach u everything if ur willing to help.

but last but now least i learned the most i've ever know about horses from Linda and Ralph Hill. They have been in horses their whole lives and so had their father. if any of you know who Ralph Hill is, Rolex may ring a bell. and Linda is his sister and she did the hunter/jumpers mainly and had horse of the year quite a bit. and we are the ones who trained Promised Land for any of you hunter/jumpers who know who that horse is.

but yes lots of riding and practice and listening to other people and making ur own mistakes is the only way to truly learn. but most importantly make sure you listen to your horse, they can always help you to tell you whats wrong and what you need to do to fix it.
 
#9 ·
Well to start with my pony taught me a lot about riding. If he didnt like something I got bucked off... But when I got a little older I started attending clinics and getting lessons from different trainers. I like getting my information from many people to see what works best for my horse and I.

I have a tad problem with working with one trainer. They start to decide for you what horse you are to ride, what saddle you have to us, what clothes to wear, who you will buy your stuff from....etc. I know many people that have spent a lot of money to make their trainer happy. I think that if the saddle looks nice and fits the horse and rider well it will work till money can be saved up. Im really lucky to have a very talanted mother that can sew very well. She makes all of my show shirts (she is working on learning chaps) and has had shirts and jackets at AQHA, APHA, and pinto world shows. i just wish I had a fraction of her talent.

My mother also assisted in my learning to ride. With endless pictures and videos to see how I ride and how to get my horse to look. We didnt have tons of money to spend on horses when I was growing up so I couldnt constantly have lessons. But Ive made it...
 
#10 ·
Miss Katie said:
Wet saddle pads????
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Meaning a LOT of time in the saddle.

A life time of horses and over 30+ years of owning them. I spend as much time reading as I do ridding and I love RFD-TV as well as these forums.
 
#11 ·
My first thought when I read the question ,was who did I inherit the horse gene from, lol My answer to that would be my uncle, who has owned and trained horses and he is up into his "80's" But My training skill have been limited to training already "green Broke" horses. Until this summer when I decided to start my 5 year old gelding, who had only been gelded last fall. I trained him abit when he was a two year old but found him to be too studdy by the time he was three and so only keep his training to ground work etc... But I have rode him a few times saddle and bareback in the round pen. This year. I have just been asking lots of questions and reading lots of training tips and technics from different trainers. It helps that this guy is pretty layedback and accepts pretty much anything quickly.
 
#12 ·
This is a fun topic! I was praticlaly born on a horse! I rode from the tiem I could hold on and in a backpack before that. My mom kind of moved away from horses and I just kept going. I had a mare that woudl dump me if she didn't liek something I did. I learned how to work with them from watching otehr people and just what i seemed to know. I have attended clinics and watched many people. I worked for a huge arab barn for awhile and also worked at a morgan barn for awhile. Just picked up tidbits of thigns along the way. I recently was workignout of a TW horse barn and that was a real different experiance. Now i'm currantly not training and miss it allot. I have watched many people and picked up thigns along the way.
 
#13 ·
You've done 4 posts here and all of them are about that superstar crap. Personally, I get tired of someone always trying to do cheap publicity. If that guy is as good as you say he is, which I doubt, because I've never even heard of him and I'm from Tx too, then he shouldn't need the hawking of his videos on a forum.
 
#16 ·
Interesting question.

Training skills? People. Do I value them? Not really.

Horsemanship? People taught me what not to do. Dogs taught me the opposite direction (which incidentally is actually what most trainers base their training attitude upon) which meant if I knew south I just had to find north. Horses showed me true north. It started with a Tobiano that had caused an amputation, and so far it's reached as far as Argentina and S.Russia (working with the Tarpan).

Take the human emotions out of horsemanship, and actually, there's nothing to it. Maybe that's why it's so difficult.
 
#17 ·
PS that probably sounds a bit harsh. I don't mean that I never learned from people, I just differentiate on intent. I've learnt comparatively very little from trainers, yet I've learnt a lot from horsemen. That's why I'm so keen to point put the difference between the two. Trainers lack true horsemanship in general because it isn't their priority. Horsemen on the other hand have only one focus. The horse.

My disdain is especially great because of the change in parameter. When horses were (and where they still are) an essential worktool, then training is fine with me. That's livestock.

However in the modern world of the, and heaven forbid I say it, the recreational......wait for it.....'pet' ..... well then I have the ultimate disdain for the trainers that pretend to have the interest of the horse at stake. That claim to speak horse...yahde yahde yah. You aren't horsemen. You are trainers. Accept it. Be proud of it, but don't pretend.
 
#18 ·
I've learned the most from the horses I've worked with. Even watching other people working horses taught me a lot. I've had two great trainers that trained me as much or more than they trained the horses. And I always learn something when I ride with friends.
 
#19 · (Edited)
I AM NOT A TRAINER but I interact with about 20 horses everyday and I watch the person and the horses' reaction to the treatment. I like to think of myself as the horse whisperer of our barn. I can get most of the horses to do things people didn't think they could because I talk with each horse, pat and sooth them for each new experience (cross ties, trails ect), do everything slowly and quietly, and respect the horse. I read a ton of books and pulled some bits of wisdom from each book. Watching fiction movies like "The Horse whisperer" taught me some things and watching youtube videos taught me more. A horse who respects you is more likely to do what you want him/her to do then a horse who is handled roughly. I guess it's kinda goofy but it works for me and the horses at our barn.
 
#21 ·
My dad has had horses and been working with them for 50 year or so, I have learned almost everything I know from him. I have also taken tons and tons of lessons as well as learning from my boyfriend who has been riding for about 20 years. The best teacher I have found is time in the saddle and time working with horses.
 
#23 ·
Reading reading reading, watching watching watching, then practice practice, get bucked off, practice practice practice eat a little more dirt, practice practice, practice........ little by little it all falls into place. Then you learn something new and you have to reorganize and practice practice practice practice......
 
#26 ·
When I was little, it was from my brother. When I was in grade school, it was mostly shared amongst us horsey kids. As a teen, it was working in a riding/training stable with an older cowboy & his trainer daughter (a wonder I was never killed or crippled). As an adult, with various trainers, clinics, coaches and lotsa one on one time with nags.
 
#27 ·
Experience is the best teacher for sure, unless you've been doing it wrong for 30 years.

But i got mine from my momma who learned from a guy named Forrest Schmidt who likely worked with dorrance and hunt (they were in the same area)

But i've learned something from each of the RFD guys, boil past the ego they all basically are saying the same thing what Dorrance and Hunt did

As for the RFD guys its who you can relate to the best
 
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