 Just realize that it's really not so much training As what we as we hear we're the ones the human needs to be trained Horses they just need the right feel and direction from you. Do you know what I mean? So that's kind of the message on on that one. Does anybody hand-feed Maddie? Yeah, and I think do you hand-feed your horse? Uh-huh. Yeah, I can tell You don't hand-feed Just say yeah Good answer. Yeah, maybe you do hand-feed stop it if you are and Ron I don't think you hand-feed anymore, but let's just go over that real quick if you hand-feed all right It's called rewarding at variable intervals So do you know it's like I always say it's like a slot machine You know you you win once in a while and that keeps people pulling the lever Well, your horse is thinking hey, you know what I do is I oh maybe you do hand-feed so the horse will lean in on you They'll lean in get on their front legs They're burying in on you. They're leaning in they're on their front end and what they do is they think if they nudge you enough poop treat pops Magic treat pops in their mouth. They don't always understand why they get a treat See so what they do is they just do the behaviors that get some of the treat And then when you don't want them to be mouthing you they do right make sense. May I work with your horse first? Okay? Nice I'd pretty much give everybody that speech automatically. Yeah, so now she's used to somebody operating close to her Isn't she alright? So I'm just gonna let her out and we'll explore a little bit notice She was looking and chewing there a little bit that'll that'll be meaningful. I'm telling her just just stay Back there there stay back So wouldn't it be nice if any time you're riding or working on the ground and your horse started to freak out that you could establish a halt Right, so any any time Just let her have a think there anytime your horse gets excited if you could halt wouldn't that be a nice feature? To have a safety there we go look at that safety switch. Oh Oh Now when I get further away from from these horses You'll see their head will come down because I'm giving them room when we're always here all the time We're in their space so much that they They have a hard time with that notice when I lift I'll lift up because in the saddle We're gonna lift up when we want to ride forward or back up. So you'll notice I get tall So what I'll do is I'll say to her stay put Stay where you're at, but it's really by lifting and then I'll step off to the side a little bit and Get her coming forward and then when I turn towards her. Oh, she's starting to pick up on that So it's really nice to have the horse Square nose between their shoulders Well, I wasn't really on the ball there see and then she walked off So when that nose comes past the shoulder all of a sudden the mind leaves you and they walk off So if I keep that nose between the shoulders when I'm in front She'll be ready if I get tall and step in that would be back up All right, and I'm gonna walk off There's a headlight. You didn't know it But there's a headlight on your chest and you can shine that headlight to where you'd like to go So if I want to walk towards you I shine the headlight towards you But if I want to halt shine it towards the horse, so she's picking up on that So that allows me to get further away Which is fun for the horse and the horse appreciates you being further away. So same same thing now She's not used to that back there. You know, she's She's like well, I'm used to having you know having you right under my my head or further back Look at her ears and her her expression now notice when I step off to the side a little bit Do you see her cross the hind legs a little so do you see that how that that right hind leg starts to step under? See that right there, and if I do it more Dramatically or more exaggerated here watch that right hind leg step under under and I come forward. I turn I halt lift back Good. So do you see what we're establishing? Halt walk forward start up cross your left hind leg now. I'm just circling and arcing around Halt back. I'm almost done and Then I'll let everybody else do it. I can now tell her you stay where you're at Not to watch her. I'm watching her. I'm looking at her expression or eyes or ears, and I'm saying you stay where you're at She's such a wild horse There she goes and oh, oh That's great. So what'd you notice there? She's she's like you say that again totally Yeah, so I it's not always about pushing How many times have you heard the horse has to yield away from you the horse has to move away from pressure, right? And this is true, but it's not all about that Sometimes we're just so close to our horses. We're the ones that get we're the ones that start close So if I start further away The horse goes. Oh, I feel better. I can relax a little bit more So then if I step to the side she'll cross that left hind leg and come forward good turn halt