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| Where did you learn the fundamentals/foundation training prior to starting your horse on barrels?? For me, personally, I have the colt breaking/first ride part down, and when riding a 'finished'-ready to start on barrels prospect I am very confident... but it's the inbetween that I'm not. So I'm curious if there are horsemanship clinics, or videos, or anything in particular that people use or go to to learn this. I have all of the Clinton Anderson dvds but am looking for other avenues. Thanks! |
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The Advice Guru
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| I am a bit confused on what you are asking. Colt breaking IMO you need to know how to put all the buttons on, and be able to turn an untouched horse into a finished broke horse.
What has helped me become a better rider
I was in horse 4h, got to ride with some of the best horsemanship instructors over the years
I took reining clinics.
Rode with different people of different disciplines.
John Lyons has awesome videos on starting a horse from the ground all the way to putting the finishing buttons on a horse
Ray Hunt was amazing.
I am not a Parrelli fan, but the more knowledge you have the better you become.
I also took still take barrel clinics, Sharon Camarillo focuses on basics.
I read books on horses, their behaviour, as horsemanship comes done to reading the horse and manipulating the program to fit the horses needs. |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | I learned how to ride by working at a barn that was primarily focused on hunters, jumpers, and eventers. The owner of the barn was also the resident trainer. I grew up in a very low-income household, so I worked for my lessons. Because I didn't have a horse of my own, I rode the horses that she had in for training. She trained me, while I trained them. This helped her because she could get two horses worked in the same time frame. She would ride one, and coach me on another. I was rarely on the same horse two days in a row. I worked my tail off cleaning stalls, grooming, feeding, etc. as well and in turn my trainer paid my fees to attend several clinics with several HUGE names in the jumping world.
In my opinion, you learn the most by riding as many horses as you can. Ride with an open mind and be aware of the fact that you can learn something from every horse you swing a leg over.
My favorite stage of training is the "adding buttons" stage. I don't like to put the first few rides on a horse, I want something that isn't afraid of the whole riding thing. I love love love to finish horses and polish them up though. My barrel horse could probably show very well in a low-level hunter class because although he spent a year with an amazing trainer, when I got him back I had to polish him up in my own style: hunter. |
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Location: Peach State | Not really sure what your looking for however I just did a two week free trail subscription for "training barrel horses.com" so far it seems to have some good tips and from a wide range of training styles. |
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Location: Da Booshes | I primarily ride cow horses. I find that putting a horse that is broke like a cow horse on barrels is an easy transition. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | I think I get the gist of what you're saying....that you struggle with bringing them along after they're green broke until they're finished and ready to start on barrels. You have more trouble with the day to day in between stage. And you're wanting to know where and how we learned to bring one along from green broke to finished.
I was fortunate to work under a couple of fabulous trainers and I soaked up all I could. What was good about that was I rode and learned every day, and really the in between stage is about riding every day or as much as you can. The improvements are smaller and more subtle than they are when you're breaking one out or putting them on the pattern. Because of that you have to take smaller steps and be more consistent.
I've gone to a lot of ranch clinics too and I always learn something about being lighter, easier and finding easier ways to get my horse working for me.
If you could find someone that you could ride with on a frequent basis until your horse is finished and you're ready to take over, that would help.
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | Phil Haugen...he puts on clinics all over the country but he has a fabulous record of horses he's started and put the foundation on that then went into training for barrels or roping and were winners..check out his fb and webpages...he's out of Weatherford Oklahoma....he also takes colts for training..that where we send ours for first 90-120 days...he has DVDs and stuff too if you want to go that route too. |
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