hi it's josie and today i'd actually like to share with you the process i use when i'm training
a very young very green horse this is a method that i learnt when starting young
horses under saddle now i'm not claiming it to be my method i'm pretty sure that i've picked it up
along the way from other people but i've put the pieces of the puzzle together how it suits me i
hope it suits you i hope it helps you understand a little bit more about training your horse there is
a thing called the training scale or some people know it as the german training scale which goes
rhythm suppleness contact impulsion straightness and collection and yes i follow that absolutely
when i'm training my horses but this here is how i teach a very green horse that's literally
just started under saddle it's very simple easy to remember and if you follow it i do believe
that you will actually be able to do many things with your horse that perhaps you didn't think you
could before they will help you as well as a rider learn how to train your horse so the first thing
a young green horse no i don't have one i'm sorry but a young green horse needs to know is to go so
they need to learn go stop turn that's the first lot of things that i teach them so they learn to
go very crudely from these aids so they it starts usually with a click when i'm in the round yard
which spider doesn't listen to
because he says i'm way past the breaking in stage mum so it's a click to go forward it then becomes
my legs to ask the horse to go forward and it then becomes my seat so i'm always trying to
refine the aids on the horse what i've been taught is that our aids should be
about eighty percent seat fifteen percent legs and 5 percent hands and because we're humans and we
do everything with our hands a lot of us do it not quite right so the horse needs to learn to
go from the seat but in the beginning it starts usually with your voice and your legs
and then he learns to stop from the reins and you might have to actually
give a bit of a pull or do a one-rein stop if you're in a pickle when you're training your horse
but he should learn to stop from your seat like that so that you just you don't really use your
hands or if you do you just close your fingers so that's go stop and then he learns to turn and
turn becomes a turn from the inside rein there's no two ways about it when i'm teaching a green
horse i am using my inside rein but i wish to get more finesse as we go along so but i don't use it
in a constant pulling way i i bump the horse around the corner i go bump let go turn let go
turn let go and why do i do that because if i pull his head this way where's spider going out that
way i'm jack knifing him through the shoulder so i ask him to come and let go so his neck and head
can straighten up ask him to come and let go ask him to come and let go ask him to come and let go
so turning comes from in the beginning as i said all your aids are crude and then you aim
to finesse them so the turning comes from a bump release bump release and it's an opening rein
so you come out this way not back here because that just jack knifes your horse and look where
he's going can you see i'm not touching him can you see where he's going okay so i bump release
bump release and it's just a squeeze release of the ends when i say bump it's literally a
squeeze like a sponge release squeeze release and the horse will come around off of that
and eventually you want your horse to come around off a combination of
weight aids and the outside rein but in the beginning it is the inside rein
so now your horse understands go stop and turn doesn't have to be perfect guys
if you're looking for perfection you're not going to find it it just needs to be you know the horse
has a bit of an understanding then he needs to learn to go sideways so i teach my horses turn
on the forehand whoops his nose needs to get over the fence i teach my horses a full pass
keep going good boy good boy and I teach my horses to leg yield so now my horse understands go stop
turn and move sideways and I keep training that until I get really nice finessed
aids and once you've got those aids dialled in with some finesse you can put them all together
this really little half pass that spider's doing here is really just go stop turn and move over
go, to keep going forward, stop, half halt, move your balance back turn, bend so although he's
not turning I'm asking him for bend and go over move sideways so once you've got all of those
you can start playing around with exercises like that that's how I train my young horses I use that
scale to work up through and train them and I also use that scale when
I troubleshoot so if I'm on a young horse and he's getting a bit stuck with something
I will go right back and I will recheck everything does he know go stop does he know turn
can he move over and somewhere in there you'll find the horse has become confused about something
and you just need to re-teach him that little bit and then you can get on with training your
horse some more and and the confusion will go away I hope that helps thanks for watching guys