Yes, please do teach us how to lead a horse over grass with a loose lead!

Hate cross ties. Especially in aisles crowded with stuff and people walking horses past etc.

I love your whole approach.

I have ridden hundreds of sport horses and my estimate is maybe 20 % get girthy or something else. Maybe they need a saddle fitting.

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Hi! thanks so much for this video. Is it the correct one for solving separation anxiety? I think the title may be wrong. Thanks!

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Keep on what you do, I like your dedication

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One other amazing video! And so needed for me!! I had a session the other day and felt I could have fone more but now see that I "still" did a lot. A friend of mine needs help with her nervous and now rearing competition horse. I was like "well I am not so trained with these advanced horses but let me see it may be fun to train a really well educated horse". Took him to an oval ring and the horse had so much tension he was way worse than the horses I am riding in!! My immediate thought was "this horse is not ready for a saddle" when I was reminded of the fact he is "supposedly WELL educatef" 😂 I could not touch him without him doing a million things as if I was sending him off. Touching the lead rope was hard, scratching my own knee was hard I mean he like this one also stared at me the whole time as if saying "why arent you sending me off?". Little by little he relaxed. I did not much else then walk a head of him. Do turns and also try to stroke him and scratch him with the wrong end of thexwhio (since I made the discovery he was terrified of a simple dressage whip). I was careful not to ask him to lounge but a couple of times he did and I allowed him and everytime it was a high necked trot. Never a walk. He fid seem to relax a bit after around 20 minutes at least I could touch him more. (PS how can u compete on a horse that wont allow you to stand relaxed next to him? I hate to admit my friend lost a few "points" as to how I viewed her abilities 😅😅😅). But on the walk to the barn he reared bc of a stationary horse transport 🤯🤯🤯 next tp the stables on our 15 meyer walk. I kid you not. I was in shock how she can be riding this horse? So I spent a few minutes sending him away from the transport and allowing him.to rest next to it. He actually became quite curious of it and sniffed it an all. Which made me take him past another one until he wanted to "rest" next to it as well 😅😅😅 At least some success but even still I feel like his brain was thinkibg way too much it was no "real" relaxation.... So since I still was not happy that the horse was not relaxed, I decided to not let him go roll with the horses but did a "forbidden thing" and feed him hay and have him lose in the middle of the stable to see how he would behave with me there doing nothing. And I kid you not he cant even relax FULLY with me standing next to him even if I was looking away, if I moved a leg he had his eye on me and he was half through his hey when FINALLY I got a "brhhhhhhhh" from him. I was forced to tell her " I feel like your horse is not fit for riding he is way too tense". She was like "yeah she said thats his character he is very responsive" and I was like "no he is stressed" He keeps thinking "what does she want what does she want". My friend got him only 5 months ago and already competed twice and was disqualified second time. He reared and took off and she started telling me the techicalities about how he gets stressed in this one place. Meanwhile I am thinking how I could not touch him with the lead rope...... Its a fourgated Icelander, a beauty and the selmers have cut serious cotners on their training. Yupp why not skip teaching relaxation and go straight to collected slow tölt shall we? Good grief. Like this one the horse is or wants to be, obedient but way too nervous to take in much information. I was happy to see her sitting in the paddock next time I came. Feeding him hay and just hanging ❤❤❤

Part 2 Oh my gosh finished your video now (the other comment came before). That makes so much sense! (The part of the leading rope really being so slack! Love it! )

Great points!! A horse can be much more relaxed behind. I usually like to teach horses to lead beside and get the confidence to do so on both sides littke by little. Also I sometimes get nervous having a very agitated horse behind me as it can jump on me and or I dont really see their mood or ears or anuthing. As a kid we taught them to kead beside bc they had to kearn to jump over creeks next to you whike rounding uo sheep in the mountains. U would not want the horse landing on you heals. But leading beside on a very long rope/training rope is then good for a nervous horse The may rush a head and you simply stop (no pulling) which means they stop (sometimes at the end if the rope but more often not) and turn and go a bit soft in the body look at you "oh there she is" then I change directions. Changing directions has an incredibly calming effect. Let the horse follow then move him again next to me then proceed where we were going. Little by little the horse will follow on your side. Funny thing is a young horse will learn more easily riding next to an older horse doing this in stead wanting to "smell the bum" as they tend to do in the heard. Important to switch sides as well. But stay on the "easier" side in stressful cirkumstances and actually necer force a horse to lead on a very shy side until you feel they are getting cslm around you and trust you. Oh- The benefit of the horse coming back to you after rushing forwards on a long rope are also that they dont experience you are pushing them to go forward but actually you stop and they find their calm while at the same time returning to you. I hope this makes sense to you. I am not educated like you at Holar university. This is just my thing correct me if I am doing it wrong 🙈😁

Hi I am new to your channel. Just want to say - I love it and have subscribed!!! I agree with you in everything -have seen more videos too :) For me I use both bit/, bitless but usually I will (for example now) use a lead rope (bandmúll/snúrumúll) and ride in the horse then introduce the bit later. I will ride all over the area of course beginning in a closed area first, but get the horse used to the environment with a simple lead rope and rope halter, or reins on the lead rope. Then have the teeth checked and fixed. I am in Reykjavik. My favorite bit to start a young horse with bit (right now at least) is peewee. That or the one you had there that has this: Þ its great because the horses take time to learn to stear properly. In fact I find it easier to steer with only halter. There is not much contact on the reins at all with peewee and I use a leading turn aid with no pressure on the outer rein. Until when I start to collect the horse then I change to normal bit. Right now I have not done any real collecting work on my horse but he is starting to collect himself anyway and is tölting quite well . I took him in 3,5 months ago he had almost no human experience, they even neglected his hoofs. I took about 4 or 5 weeks only working from the ground and teaching him to lead. I also like to go running with him next to me we did a lot of that but we still enjoy it. He had been in a herd with 80 horses and I believe we built a really strong connection he will run next to me slow and do everything quite well. Of course its like interval training for me since I cant run like that more than 30 seconds LOL He will even do a slow gallop with me, then I usually hang a bit on his mane you know the place you hold when you are a kid or when you get on, since its a bit to fast for me and thus he will kind of pull me forward. Its so much fun. When I saddled up he would not move with the saddle on excepth the walk. He was always turning dniffing the aaddle also when I bounced on his back he would turn and stop agains sniffing the saddle. I did not want to be too harsh in urging him forward. So this only happened bc the only way for him to run with a saddle was if I ran with him and not sitting on. I also did this a few times with a tight training girth. I felt if I stayed by the saddle it made it closer to the feeling of me in the saddle. I would then get on and we trotted and off again and ran etc. Fyi: Usually I would otherwise not run behind the front legs of a horse much since you simply dont want a horse pulling you. But every horse is so different, in a way him pulling me was a huge breakthrough for him. He generally lacked forward thinking and would hide behind me a lot for ex if he saw spooky things on our walks. (He would actually hide his head behind my back. It was really funny!! He is big too 1,49 cm) He is lovely to ride now, we are riding very free and carelessly. He is extremely curious and will want to be the first to walk before the other riders if there is a new place which I find so cool. He is a son of Galdur frá Leirubakka and looks a lot like him. Five gater. I need to start collecting him more and train the gates but I kind of dont want to. I sometimes still ride with a halter just to see if all my signals work as well as before. They do. Its so much fun. I urge anyone to "break in" their own Icelandic horse, if you have learned "gangsetning" breaking in is not an issue. Its just fun 🎉 and having a horse that follows you around never is "unpolite" for ex will move away by a gentle touch when you are tacking up. I mean its your horse so you can do everything over an EXTENDED period of time. People are in awe how well trained he will be. Sending him off for 8 weeks is not good. Plus then he meets you and needs to re-leatn anyway.... and you wont be his first human trainer. Sorry for the speech.

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I clicked on this by mistake.. I dont have a horse, never had a horse.. dont take lessons.. But listening to you is lovely... Ive subscribed... Not sure where this will go but.. yes. Total sense... Not just about horses either...

Excellent subject for a video!!

My mule does that when she wants me to itch her tail.

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🥰 so super good understandable explanetion

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I'd like to attend next Wednesday and I don't see a link. I'm very interested in what you have to say. Thank you!

Hej Jag skulle gärna se mer av connection video. God fortsättning på nya året 🥰

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Hi Catherine, I would love to learn more on this. Would you please send me the link for the video. Thank you for all your wonderful videos, it is so helpful to learn all of this and connect deeper with my horse. Cheers, Paula

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so cool what you teach us🥰

such a good example😘

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I appreciate you sharing you knowledge with us. You gently way of working with horses really resonates with me.

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Très intéressant!! Watching from Antibes, France. Thank you 👍🐎