Horsemanship Showcase 2023

Yes that part of it is tiresome, for sure. I remember being at a Mark Rashid clinic and him being berated by stans for no longer advocating something he had said twenty years earlier - which they now saw as absolutely gospel!

It was ‘make the wrong thing hard and the right thing easy’ if you’re interested. He now says the ‘wrong thing’ (Ie not loading, leaning on bit, running with head in the air etc) is already hard so if a horse is choosing that it means he’s confused or physically compromised so ‘punishing’ them (ie deliberately making it even harder) for ‘doing the wrong thing’ is unfair and unhelpful. These demo participants were outraged. ‘But you said….!’

Joe said much the same thing about Lottie’s canter: ‘if she knew another way to canter exists she’d take it. Because this is as horrible for her as it is for you’.
 
I guess wrong thing hard is a point in time with training and that’s changed as people understand anxiety in horses more.
I have to say I have had great success with Warwick’s mindfulness on a horse who didn’t like brush jumps.
 
Yes I think it was more that the concept was overused, and stopped people thinking about why the horse was doing 'the wrong thing'.
 
It was a good video weird the algorithm dislikes it. I was surprised they let you film though. I went last year and was told off for it.
 
LEC said:
I put the YouTube up and all I get is comments from Steve Young evangelists 🙄. It’s performed very badly as a video so will only do part 2 with Joe and Warwick when lacking content.
This side of horses I have to say really interests me and then really puts me off as it’s exactly like religion. One is not better than the other, they are just different and we should be receptive to everything and can learn from it.

What have I learnt? So called Natural Horsemanship (I hate this name as everything is just horsemanship) is more niche than I thought. I appreciate algorithms will have some impact but the Piggy video was big for us vs Steve/Ben which is very poor. Just interesting.
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I agree but I may point some blame to youtube, I follow your channel but haven't seen the horsemanship one pop up on my home page. Whereas the Piggy one did. Off for a look.
 
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The thing I like about Joe (and all good trainers will be the same) is that he reads the individual horse in front of him. When doing loading training with my 3 year old he came expecting to have him on the box in a short space of time, but after a while admitted that the method he usually used wasn't going to work and he had to do something else.

I don't believe you can write a manual about how to train a horse - it would be lovely if you could - but there are way too many variables.
 
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