Re: RC: Re: RE: Slower Ld's

[sharp penny <penelope_75647@yahoo.com>]

 He still gets excited, but he knows
> how to deal with it now. I
> am convinced that no amount of training in the 
> world would have been more
> effective than just doing a lot of long slow
> endurance miles.


     Actually, you are just doing the next step in the
level of your training. You begin a horses training in
a calm controlled environment. As the horse learns and
you get a level of 100% response . you go to the next
level and train him in an environment that has "more
outside distractions and stimuli". You work him in
this environment untill you get that 100% and then
move on the the next level,ect. Some people only need
or want to reach a certain level and are happy staying
at that level. Here the show horse comes to mind. In
endurance you have to train your horse to "preform" at
the highest level of excitement. 
    For example you trained your horse first in an
arena or ring. When he was good there I bet you felt
confident working in an open pasture. I would bet when
you first rode him in a different environment he took
a few steps backward training wise. The same goes for
that first controlled trail ride, I bet you had to
work to get his attention off of his surroundings and
onto you. Eventually he was no problem on a calm trail
or training ride. By going to an endurance ride you
just upped the excitement level again. Just the next
step in training, which you are doing now. Sure, he
won't be as well behaved and as responsive to you as
he was at the calmer rides. He will improve and settle
because he has the training and disipline to draw on.
Unlike the untrained horse he has learned how to get a
grip on his emotional self. If you look at the horses
that don't settle no matter how many rides they have
done, I bet you will find they have never been taught
how to handle their emotions in a calm controlled
environment and then asked to work up through the
levels of excitement.
    A horse isn't trained until he responds to you and
your cues 100% of the time in any environment, even
when all hell is breaking loose around him. This takes
lots of time and you have to work through the steps of
the various excitement levels.
    Basically training is just a way to teach a horse
how to handle his emotions. A horse that is trained to
the 10th degree in dressage has actually just learned
to handle his emotions in that environment. Try asking
a grand prix horse to piaffe on a trail. Most likely
he will act up, not because he is lacking in training,
its because he has not been trained to work in this
level of excitment. If you wanted to be able to work
him here you would have to work on the basics leading
up to the piaffe on the trail environment. Please do
not take this literally as I use this only as an
example.  My point being is you can't jump from point
A to D without doing the steps inbetween. 

  Penny   
     
     




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