Everything Horses and Livestock® Magazine Feb 2019 Vol 4 Issue 1

Everything Horses and Livestock Magazine ®

MATTHEW JOBE C BAR J RANCH WINDSOR, MO 660-537-9542 WWW.CBARJ.COM LIKE US ON FACEBOOK gratification we must slow down and work the process. Work WITH the horse in its timeline, not with our own. This is the key to a successful relationship with your horse, we must allow them to pass first grade before we move to second grade. Allow the good things to happen and reward it by releases of pressure and before long the great things will begin to take place. Then start to up the ante, getting bigger results. Walk your horse through a successful collaboration with you!

time, we could begin to add light pressure with our hands as we lope, suggesting to the horse to get off our hands and lower their head. As always, when we see even the slightest ‘try’ we release immediately. Repeat and build upon this method. The key to this method is allowing the horse to make his own decision and rewarding him for the correct decision by releasing pressure at the correct time. As the horse is in the willing frame of mind, we can start to ask for more. If the horse is obstinate, we must begin again, allowing the horse to work with us not against us. It takes quality learning in each step to progress, just like a child taking each step through school. In a society where everyone wants instant

The “Power of Release Method” can be used to teach in all aspects of horsemanship. Let’s speak about the high headed horse. Everyone loves to see a soft relaxed horse, loping around the arena with a low head set, as opposed to the horse who looks as though it may stampede around the arena wild eyed at any moment. What if, when we loped these high headed horses we did not pick up on the bridle and each time they lowered their head we allowed them to stop and relax? Stopping and relaxing is their release of pressure, they would much rather relax than work! Continue this stop and relaxing each time the horse lowers his head until they can relax several times. At this

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