Join up - First attempt

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chilworth23

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Ok, i have a lovely relationship with my mare, but i still have in mind last november she was wild and is still young, so thought i'd try this, her ridden manners are lovely but on ground she seems to think she is the size of a puppy and frequently treds on me, knocks me etc, tried join up (just basic for a few mins) in the round pen today, and she seemed to get it immediately, afterwards although my fella stood shaking her bucket at her stable door, to see how she reacted, she walked quietly next me ( normally i'd have been shoved out way or dragged at speed across the school to get to it! )
 
You see this is what bothers me about those who pin their hopes on this wonderful thing called "join up". If she got join up immediately why on earth haven't you taught her basic manners as soon as you got her?

I mean it's all very nice that you put her in the round pen and she behaves beautifully but what about the rest of the time?
 
Join-up and free schooling are two very different things with opposite purposes. Please don't confuse them or you will have a very mixed up horse who doesn't know what to do or where to go.
 
i meant now she'll listen to me without a lunge attached, ive tried free schooling before, in our sandschool, and she either ignores me, or runs away and doesnt listen, unless i attach a lunge.

R.E. Manners - she has beautiful ridden manners, but i have struggled with ground manners, she will rear and paw the ground when getting impatient if im off getting tack / feed etc, she barges when rugging, there doesnt appear to be any nastiness in it, but i have struggled with it
 
Surely "Join up" is something you do with unbacked young horses. Once you ve done that to achieve the purpose for which it is designed, ie catch your horse, put on a headcollar, you move on to the next stage. Thats how I see it and how I used it with my youngster. You re not supposed to need it further in their training!?!!
 
i tried it as she has only fairly recently been broken, she seemed to take to being ridden very well and her ridden manners are lovely, however on the ground, she thinks she is the boss, and i should as she say's, she'll come when called, then pratically barge me over to get to where she wants to go, i thought i may help her respect my space a little more
 
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