Train a horse

Are You A PS
Horse Person?

Lots of people want to train a horse and be natural horsemanship trainer.  There is a certain glamour to be a horse trainer.

Often, people have trouble in horse training because they are a PS when it comes to horses. What's a PS?

It's a Professional Student.

People can get themselves book smart and know a lot of useful (and not so useful) stuff. Pretty soon, they have an expert's knowledge but not an expert's experience.

Where am I going with this?

When I first started learning horse training techniques I was a voracious reader. If it had to do with horses and how to get them doing what you ask, I read it!

I soon discovered I became a professional student instead of a doer. So...I became a doer.

Everything I read...everything....didn't matter near as much as putting out the effort and trying different stuff.

Often, things different horse pro's suggested trying didn't work like I understood it would. Sometimes I had to modify the process.

That's when things REALLY began to make sense.

The more I did with horses the better I got. Plus, it was much easier to recall from memory what I learned from experience rather than books and tapes.

Don't get me wrong. Books and tapes are absolutely essential. It's just that you have to get out and put your knew knowledge to practice so you can internalize it.

That's my two-cents worth for today.