What does horse WELFARE mean to YOU? Clinic with Tristan Tucker

I recently explored the profound topic of horse welfare at KNHS-Congresweek.
It's not just about survival for them; it's about ensuring they're happy and healthy.
My mission is to teach horses self-awareness and self-management to prevent issues like dressage disasters.
It's not just about what we do but why we do it, to ensure horses live lives better than nature intended.
Interested in learning more? Check out the full clinic.
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To learn more about TRT method and my online training, go here: trtmethod.com/...

[@HuntClubRdBarbie]

This isn't horse training - this is the gospel of horses. Profound insight!

[@SarahWRah]

I love Tristan and his commitment to "horse welfare". And I'm happy about how many trainers and riders are following that philosophy, each in their own ways. A few of my favorites are Matt Harnacke & his partner Jesse Dent in The Nethelands, Joseph Newcomb & his sister Amelia Newcomb in California, Steve Young and Barry Hook in Britain.

[@kathrinelynn4289]

I totally agree with you. I joined TRT some years ago & have used the training with my own horses. Like you I also follow Steve Young & Amelia Newcombe , & recently came across Josie Matthews, another Aussie.

[@jess3310]

@29:00 and I'm thinking... the way I handle my horse now is totally different than years ago. Between Ryan Rose and TRT I learned to show my super emotional ottb mare how to respond and react. Tristan explains how someone would bring their horse into a new environment and then say the horse is sometimes out of control... I am so happy to say that I would confidently walk my mare into a new place with a loop in my leadrope and an awareness of her emotional state - if she gets bothered I have strategies to help her that we have practiced when things are going well. When I remind her, when I ask her to bend and give and think about the space between us, the conversation, she will remember to breathe and read my energy. She will remember that she can control her own body even in a new place. I am so proud of her emotional and mental fitness these days and... I should be more proud of what I have accomplished in myself that has allowed me to help her and learn just as much from her as she has from me.

[@wendylow5748]

This was fantastic can't wait to explore this with my OTTB.

[@christinalogan311]

Excellent presentation and valuable discussion & information. Thankyou ✨

[@foxridge4352]

awesome!! much needed message to everyone!

[@michellep9303]

Thank you Triston for addressing what is being bred now. They are different now. Your dedication to their welfare means so much for the horses❤

[@isairis2188]

As a meditator and one who used to be with horses for a very long time, I am deeply impressed....

[@1sacoyle]

I hope you will be posting more from this clinic.

[@battanle]

Excellent presentation and demonstration of very fundamental but profound concepts.

[@Bisbee101]

Please come to the US for some clinics!!

[@archadeinteriors]

hi it's me AGAIN ! i l almost forgot, this idea of connecting our idea of the horse to it's nature, or rather it's natural habitat or environment as it would be in the wild is really awesome ! i think this is the great lesson for all animal and all of nature in general, across the board, a constant source of wisdom, thank you so much for sharing the vidoes and your knowledge with us !

[@archadeinteriors]

RE listen you are the expert and i am the new guy, life is complicated though . . my first reaction: you are using this horse a speciman, this primal contradiction kind of undermines the incredible and awesome attiutde you have from the first minute . . for example, i would have extended a hand and touched thehorse immediately . . well that's interssting, the very first thing you yourself did the first time you saw a horse is the very thing you neglected, what ensued is a series of very awkward events while you USED it to be speciman, not an indiviual, and give your clinic, thoughts anyone: i am not trying to condemn, but i understan the complexity, that sometiome the very thing we attempt to is the very things that fails the most, but this is only part of the whole story, the next question, when you give the horse such good mentoring and then they go into an environment where the owner is a complete old school domiant or maybe aggressive person, and the horse is stuck with them for life, what then, you take a sesnitve enlightened horse and they get stuck with anextremely insesistve coboy or something, well my bad habit is commenting before finishing watching, i wish you all the best, and i applaud your awesome work !

[@lindakrelle6607]

😂😂do your horses respect you or are they as confused as your response,? 😂😂​@@archadeinteriors

[@archadeinteriors]

@@lindakrelle6607 😂😂thanks for reminding me of the conflicting rage of my inner emotions, . .i think you might be on to something, i might be a philosopher more than a horseman, to put it gently, questioning the most basic premises of life, so to answer your question it seems like the result might be a lot of 1 step forward two steps back😢😮‍💨!

[@Weltenseglerin]

Unspeakably valuable information 🙏👍

[@lindakrelle6607]

Ive been watching alot of these videos and another good person who trains with mustangs that remind me of my donkeys with their different ways of processing infomation . Its been really great as donkeys are very different. So after watching them i felt happy that my sensitive and patient and somewhat slow approach is legitimate❤. In just a few sessions i don't get mugged, i can split them up and made being tied a fun part and recognised the 20 year old very sweet girlie who stomps around if not pleased has me laughing, so ive been starting her with her head down and we've both been shaking our heads and blowing out together to relax.😂 Its becoming a joint exercise. The circling i had always used to stop my young forward pushy girl from running ahead but now im introducing the flag which doesn't bother them at all. Lifting of feet is amazingly happening not enough but a good change and their attitude is like two women chatting over a garden fence both looking at me and i imagine saying to each other, " oh here we go I'm staying here until i get called over you can go first, she'll have you blowing done your nose but it's worth a bit of carrot at the end! "😂

[@Bisbee101]

PREACH!

[@marjanpijlman]

What a brilliant clinic to short hahahaha

[@nadjaberyl1487]

A serious question which I do not ask because I want to be provocative: what do you do when the horse is not spooked, but extra fresh and just wants to flip out a bit for having fun...jumping with two (or maybe all four) feet off the ground? Pitty of course that I cannot just let him go and enjoy the moment, because we are walking on a country lane and not in the wild...but well, what to do?

[@chivasmom2024]

Oh, it would have been so nice if some time was spent teaching the handler too, as the minute she got her horse back she began to micromanage her again, lifting the mare's head when she was stretching down, standing very close, keeping a very watchful eye on the horse, etc.

[@elizabethblackwell6242]

Bites, spurs, side reins, lunge reins are not healthy for horses.

[@archadeinteriors]

listen you are the expert and i am the new guy, life is complicated though . . my first reaction: you are using this horse a speciman, this primal contradiction kind of undermines the incredible and awesome attiutde you have from the first minute . . for example, i would have extended a hand and touched thehorse immediately . . well that's interssting, the very first thing you yourself did the first time you saw a horse is the very thing you neglected, what ensued is a series of very awkward events while you USED it to be speciman, not an indiviual, and give your clinic, thoughts anyone: i am not trying to condmn, but i understan the complexity, that sometiome the very thing we attempt to is the very things that fails the most, but this is only part of the whole story, the next question, when you give the horse such good mentoring and then they go into an environment where the owner is a complete old school domiant or maybe aggressive person, and the horse is stuck with them for life, what then, you take a sesnitve enlightened horse and they get stuck with anextremely insesistve cobot or something, well my bad habit is commenting before finishing watching, i wish you all the best, and i applaude your awesome work !

[@archadeinteriors]

i think maybe people hate me sometimes because i think so deeply, but what i mean is that you did not greet the horse, an act of humbly disregarding all conventions, right from the outset. And so you have the pscology and/or phisiology correct down to a scince of thought, but the idea of awareness, instead of being consistent iwth you thoughts, has been negated by yu yourself; by not being being aware of your own introduction and using this individual, and so all that was lacking was a hand or a touch, maybe a hello, welcome; am i too deeply thinking this, because to me it's simple as absolutely throwing out every preconcieved notion of you are horse i am human, and humbly saying i am creature saying hello to you another being, yet firmly engrained are notions of human/animal differentiation ( not saying that is inherently bad ) but nonetheless difference creates a primaryabandonment and/or dominance structure from the initial contact . . i think that it's imortrtant to carry that awareness through faitfully, being consistent to the absolute, not 99,9 percent . . but hey i think you are doing pretty good! i'm a specatator only so, but still i do try to live my own life with those ideas; being consistent to the absolute, and not accepting or taking anything for granted, it becomes not just pscologocal, but spiritual . .

[@charmcshane3517]

Give that horse some FOOD!!!!! Apples, carrots, oats, apple sauce. Guaranteed she'll calm down.

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

Emotional eating for horses 😂👍