TTouch® Ground Training With Plastic

Using plastic to teach your horse to move forward in new situations such as on the trail, trailer loading, narrow places, indoor arenas. Ground training for safety and teaching your horse to think. Horses learn to control their own behavior if given the opportunity to think about it.
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[hdsheena]

what is the chain in the horse's halter? it looks an awful lot like the ones i've seen that cause discomfort..

[TellingtonTTouch]

TTEAM uses a six-foot soft nylon lead with a thirty inch chain and swivel

sewn on. This type of lead allows you to give clear signals in clear,

precise and soft ways, without force. It also encourages a horse to lower

his head out of the flight stance. Besides the advantages of the TTEAM

use, the neurological horse will receive auditory and vibrational input

and sensory feel from the chain, and also have a connection from one side

of his head, across his face and up the other side of his head.

[Wandturner89]

What is the white stick you are using? it doesn't look like a crop

[TellingtonTTouch]

A four-foot stiff whip with a hard plastic button on the end. It is used as an extension of the arm to stroke all over the horse and to give him a sense of his body. It also teaches him to respond to light signals. A white wand is preferable so the horse can see it easily and doesn't associate it with whips that he might have been punished with in the past.

[Sonialei77]

it's interesting how they become almost like a loyal dog when it comes to space... my mare is having such a hard time with boundaries. She'd crawl into my pocket if she could. It's something i'm working on very hard because she has a tendency to stomp or paw at the ground for no reason... maybe a tick, who knows.

[RunninQHsRock]

Thanks Linda,horses are smart when they get just a second to think.I like the extra gentle way with fillys/mares.Would you change any thing for an intact colt of the same age and training level?

[Wandturner89]

thank you! I know almost nothing of horses, but I am lookin to learnso that when (eventually) I can get one for my own, I know what to do, the right way

[jtjets]

That video was great. I love your methods of having the horse do things as they are ready to and not trying to force them into doing what we want them to. I just love it, love it, love it Linda. Wonderful.

[EQEnlighten]

Some things I really like about the TTeam and TTouch methods is you "chunking" it down to smaller bits so the horse can have gradual successes. Also the way these methods help the horse learn to process and think these things through to become a more stable horse. As always thanks for sharing this important info withe Horse Community!

[firecat6232]

Wonderful video! Thank you for showing people a safer, saner way to train. Now...if they'd only listen.