My voice was still 100% gone but check it out!! Michael and Flora did a GREAT JOB!

"We" talked about last weekend's colt start with Buck Brannaman in Santa Cruz where Flora started a colt and Michael lent a tiny bit of a hand to Maddie with hers.

💡Being friends buys you latitude.

💡When to let a kick out or a scoot peak out before shutting it down and when to yield the hindquarters right away.

💡How critical having a forwards finish on a hindquarter yield is. (This is a big subject because, of course, we don't want our horse lunging forward or heavy on the forehand. But, they can easily end up being backwards feeling when we're not wanting or needing them too.)

💡In the end, we really do have to read their mind.

💡Better to be a tiny bit late than too early with a block. (Usually)

💡❇️The hindquarter yield attached to the rein is a deep deep river from which all our wells are drawing.

Episode 116.5! HORSEMANSHIP REMARKS SHOW. ☕️☕️🐴

Buck had to get to the clinic venue to get saddled up so Michael and I did a little post show. Ha! Pretty fun to get to talk about Buck right after he left. We sure do appreciate him.

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Live from the Santa Cruz California Buck Brannaman clinic! It was really fun to have all three of us in a room for a change. Remember to join The Buck Channel.

💡 Coming out of winter, Michael and I are both working on our feed and fitness programs. We chatted about hay feeders, cavaletti and muscle vs fat.

💡 We also talked about how criticizing progress clip in the warm up ring can make us insecure about our own process. Worrying about each moment being perfect is an exercise in insanity. The process is about setting them up and letting them find it. As best we can...

Hope you enjoy the show!

Remember! The Horsemanship Remarks show is about the intersection of philosophy, technique, gymnastics and friendship. It's not a horse training podcast. We do often talk about specifics but they're woven in and can be very advanced. 

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Michael and I were curious about the idea of a “cowboy cavesson" so we chatted about that for a while which, of course, brings up the subject of how much we're manufacturing things or setting them up and letting them find it.

Michael bought a new horse, Novella walked up to me in the pasture and how different the feeling is between working a cow and flaggings colts.

Hope you enjoy the show!

Remember! The Horsemanship Remarks show is about the intersection of philosophy, technique, gymnastics and friendship. It's not a horse training podcast. We do often talk about specifics but they're woven in and can be very advanced. 

For more details on horse development and context on our discussions, you can join ⁠⁠Horsemanship Insider.

RAW AND UNCUT. Oh man! I loved this chat. We went deep into the weeds. Sharing our experiences horseback last week with hearing thoughts touched us off.

More on Rick Ruben’s book. His words about creativity and art apply directly to this conversation!

The crux of the matter is that moving from the seen (techniques) into the unseen (feel) IS mostly the point of it all.

Remember! The Horsemanship Remarks show is about the intersection of philosophy, technique, gymnastics and friendship. It's not a horse training podcast. We do often talk about specifics but they're woven in and can be very advanced. 

For more details on horse development and context on our discussions, you can join ⁠Horsemanship Insider.

We wound around to one of the coolest discussions about what balance might really mean and it's implications regarding belonging. 

Also, I swear we weren't talking over each other as much as this makes it seem. For a while, the instagram platform was automatically chopping out pauses. 

Remember! The Horsemanship Remarks show is about the intersection of philosophy, technique, gymnastics and friendship. It's not a horse training podcast. We do often talk about specifics but they're woven in and can be very advanced. 

For more details on horse development and context on our discussions, you can join Horsemanship Insider.

I hope this tip helps you stay out of the "blackberries" and the "poison oak"! (Avoid fear and frustration, make progress and stay safe!)

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💡Novella sloshing around in the water glass of the rectangle. 

💡Fairness in upleveling quality and expectations.

💡An exploration of developing promptness.

💡However far forward the hind feet can go, the horse can push themselves up into the air. 

“This is the beginning of a long relationship. I want to set the foundation stones for how our relationship is going to be.”🤍

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