Clinton Anderson Presents: Gaining Control and Respect on the Ground

G'day mates, Clinton Anderson here from Down Under Horsemanship. You know what? Horses are a beautiful creature. They're smart, they're very graceful, they're strong, they're athletic. But then at times they can also be very dangerous. Pressure. I believe horses are dangerous by nature, but they don't realize how big they are. They don't realize how strong they are. They move very very quickly. When you can gain your horse's respect and learn how to control your horse, not only can you do it safely with your horse, but you can also get your horse to enjoy the time that he spends with you. My job or my core purpose here at Down Under Horsemanship is to inspire the dreams of horsemen. And I'm going to show you by understanding, by moving the horse's feet forwards, backwards, left and right and gaining that horse's respect, there isn't anything that you can't teach your horse. All you have to do mate to get tremendous success with your horse is follow the Down Under Horsemanship method. So listen mate, sit back, relax because we're going to inspire you with the method. Run, run, run, run, run, run, run. Now in, chase your eye. Run faster, run faster, bend ahead towards the withers. It makes your partnership with your horse so much nicer. It's just a lot of fun besides you know being able to get a lot out of it. This is hard work. I'm Clinton Anderson and I have a method for training horses. Getting horses to behave is simple. It's training people that's the real trick. Join me as I tackle some of the most challenging situations with problem horses and with problem owners. It's very important mate to make sure that you flex her every day and get her nice and light. You have a go. Good job. It's very important mate when you're training a horse to be consistent. Remember consistency is your greatest ally and inconsistency is your greatest enemy. G'day mate, I'm Clinton Anderson and I'd like to welcome you to another program of Down Under Horsemanship. On today's show I'm going to be working with a group of students that have come to my ranch here in Stephenville, Texas and I'm going to be working with the fundamental level of my program. I'm going to be showing them how to get respect and control of their horses on the ground and on the saddle. So come on mate, let's go get them broke. I consider the round panning to be very important because it's the first lesson. If you can't catch your horse how are you supposed to train it? So being able to get your horse to give you two eyes and be caught is crucial in success of the method. Plus in the round pan you're not connected to the horse so that there's a lot less chance the horse could kick you, run over you, bite you because he's a lot further away from you. So it's safety first mate. It's difficult in the round pan for people when they get started because there's a lot going on. You have to stay behind the driveline of the horse. You have to keep the horse moving. You have to be aware of when to apply pressure and what not to apply pressure. So there's a lot of things going on all at once that you have to be aware of. I have a five-year-old quarter horse. I've had him about three months. He didn't know anything of this method when I first got him so it's been exciting experience for him and for me. He's young and I knew there were a lot of holes in his training and when I came I found out those quickly. So it's been a real experience for both of us, him especially. Tap on her chest with rhythm. There we go. As soon as she backs up I release the pressure. Then I'm going to tap the rope with rhythm. There. As soon as she backs up a step or two. A definite attitude adjustment. He before was very slow in the backup. He was just lazy and now all of a sudden he backs up with enthusiasm and like like I really mean it. When I asked him to yield behind quarters he yielded okay but what he didn't want to do was stop. So when I rubbed him to a stop he just kept going around and around and around. So the method that we used was to if he wanted to move his feet then we made him move his feet and we moved it rapidly. So we kind of chased his rear end around until he got tired enough that he wanted to stop. He was willing to stop and when we rubbed him. When you're in the horse world sometimes you know in the regular world you don't see these people that that understand your passion for horses but here we're all and we all have the same passion. That makes a big difference. Stay tuned mate because after the break we're going to be back with more innovation inspiration and instruction. Check out our latest catalog from Down Under Horsemanship. It's filled with beautiful imagery and in-depth information on all the products used in this show. Visit our website or call this number and we'll send it to your door free of charge. Issues with him was just basically needed a tune-up. A little bit slow on his feet sometimes. Hard to get him to move once in a while. Not really pushy but didn't you know the horse just needed confidence built also. So he was just extremely rusty. I had had purchased the horse back and due to certain things he wasn't getting used and other horses were and it just they just get rusty like anything else you know and just time to just needed a tuning back up and getting getting back in shape. Well what he was showing me in the backing was just how a simple method to keep the feet moving. Once you get him moving in a 360 then you just go right into the backup with you know just a you know light pressure a little more and what you just need to do to get him to move his feet. To me backing is one of the most important exercises you can do in the Down Under Horsemanship method because backing a horse up gets the horse to respect you. It gets the horse to stay out of your personal space. It gets him to give you two eyes you know. A horse that's pushy, dominant, wants to bite you or run over you okay that's a forward motion. Backing is the opposite of that. Backing is the most humbling exercise a horse can do for a human being to show a sign of respect mate. He is all meat and potatoes. It's all no frills just straight to the point. It's all black and white there's no gray and it's just simple to follow and apply at home. You can see it on tv but to come in and have somebody actually coach you in person really really helps out. It's just a lot of fun besides you know being able to get a lot out of you see the issues other people are having and and you come out and whenever something messes up or you mess it up you know that you're not alone. My horse is new to me. I just I found for a couple months he's disrespectful he's pushy he likes to get his own way. He's been sitting around for two years so he's pretty rusty needed a lot of work. March your elbows hold it like a ski pole march walk there. Now he's not real sensitive Colleen so you might have to give him a little jaw therapy. He was working with me on getting him to back up getting the response that I needed because he was pretty dead so just showing me how to get really get his feet moving and just basically for me to put more force into what I was doing. You see what I'm saying when you get serious they'll get serious good job. Specifically I needed to have more energy and act like I'm gonna you know like I mean business and you know let's let him get away with it and make him do what I want him to do. It's going great there's been a big improvement on him. He's calmer definitely a lot calmer when I ask him back up he'll back up he never did that before and he's just basically a lot calmer he doesn't he doesn't invade my space. We had most of the problem because he when he got around the other horses and I needed to move him away from him and you know get after him to get away that's he got upset that's when he started going a lot faster really fast he didn't want to you know he didn't want to slow down but he did great until then. I really was hoping that I was going to get a lot out of it and I really have yes it's just he's really easy to listen to he teaches very well. A little teeny tap for the buck. Come on hold on woman run. Step up your horsemanship with the Clinton Anderson Method now available in a complete set. Fundamentals starts you on your journey to ultimate control as you learn to communicate with your horse earn his trust and respect and gain control of his body. Intermediate opens the door to ultimate performance as you build on your knowledge to create a safe willing and supple partner you control with a feather light touch and now all new advanced delivers ultimate inspiration to fine-tune your application of the method and reach the highest level of horsemanship Clinton Anderson offers you the ultimate collection of his wildly popular training method kits at a packaged price. Both my horsemanship and my horse needed this clinic. I needed to improve my seat work on my secure seat and my horse is a little lazy and a little dull and so I needed some tweaking from Clinton on how to get the the better results out of my horse. I was getting results but I needed just a little bit better. Her flexing was bump bump bump bump bump that's where she's really dull yeah. You know when we first teach flexing you know we do it with steady pressure which is just a steady amount of pressure and most horses respond relatively well to that however there are some horses that are kind of heavy and stiff and dull and lazy where you're going to have to increase that pressure to get the horse to respect you that's when we use driving pressure which is a bump bump bump sensation it's much harder for a horse to lean on driving pressure what and then what it is steady pressure okay you can you know you can sit on a chair if it sits still but if that chair was jumping up and down it'd be harder for you to sit on it. When Clinton came by and showed me exactly where to stand exactly where to put my feet and then how quickly to pull to bump to get her to get off that halter that made a huge difference in the softness of her flexing. The expectations have more than been met I've just been really pleased with the personalized attention the positivity of everybody's comments and nobody ever makes you feel like you're dumb or you can't do it it's all positive so I know my seat has improved doing the cruising lessons today at the trot and at the canter just being able to relax and and not you know try to tense up and so that has been a big benefit in the group also. Reggie's having a tough time getting out of my space and we were working against the fence and he's trying to pass through back and forth and Clinton came over and gave me a hand and started working with the horse and he could see how pushy he was so we just we decided we need a little extra work in that area. When you go to yield you're stepping away from him I want you to step towards his butt like when he gets too close here get away. You know Jack's horse was extremely lazy pushy and disrespectful so we had to spend a bit of time waking him up you know we had to be a little more aggressive with his horse and get his feet to move now you know his horse wanted to move when he wanted to move it you know your horse is going to move when you say move. Watch I want you to step forward and then jerk on him and back him Clinton's teaching style is pretty hands-on and I really like that he doesn't mind pushing you and he knows when to push and he knows when to say good job and that makes it fun just like with the horse I reward the horse when he's done a good job for me. The reason I'm whacking his butt is because he's not giving me what two eyes is he? I'm going to point belly button tap tail and I'm going to back him out of my space slide your hand down again do a one rein stop that's what we're going to work on right now. When we started riding today after learning how to flex the horse and using that as a one rein stop for the first time since I've owned the horse I actually felt comfortable about him coming to a stop I've had the horse for eight years and it's he's stopped but it's always been a struggle no struggle today it really worked well it was a worry of mine the stopping of the horse which is pretty much what brought me here to start with disrespect from the horse and if I can't stop him I'm not having any fun riding him and it was a it was a pleasant surprise today. I've been watching Clinton for five years and I loved the way his horses were so responsive to him and he had an excellent way of explaining how he got them there and that's what impressed me about Clinton his method is truly easy to understand but you have to concentrate to get the steps just right so that the horse responds the way you want them to the exercise he really helped me on was yielding the four quarters she did not do that well she's you know she's kind of stiff and not as supple and when Clinton actually I actually got to see a little more of refinement on how to get sis to move her four quarters without moving okay mate couple problems here your horse is back