Post by Elaine on Jul 17, 2008 8:27:20 GMT
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"The more nervous the horse the more you want to do. You don't want to be standing around."
"The more the horse wants to think about something else, the more I'm going to give him something to think about"
"If that nose doesn't give to you then theres no way you can work your way back through that body. The softer you get the nose the easier all the other exercises become."
"Everything is going and stopping"
"Four things you need: motivate, spot, direction, reward"
"Whats makes a horse responsive or lighter is a cue. A pre-cue is something you do before the cue."
"What a give feels like, you feel energy come up that rope and you let it go"
"The horse learns when he's doing it wrong not when he's doing it right"
"If everytime you get on you improve something - a little bit - over 1000 times you get on that horse thats a 1000% improvement. The key is to improve something every time you get into that saddle. Something is gonna get better"
Lyons Fact #719:
Don't be a passenger. Work.
Lyons Fact #3906:
If your horse bucks, if he bolts, whatever he does, as soon as you look at the ground at where you think you're going to hit, that's where you're guaranteed to land.
Lyons Fact #729:
I don't ask the horse to stop. I just quit riding.
"The more nervous the horse the more you want to do. You don't want to be standing around."
"The more the horse wants to think about something else, the more I'm going to give him something to think about"
"If that nose doesn't give to you then theres no way you can work your way back through that body. The softer you get the nose the easier all the other exercises become."
"Everything is going and stopping"
"Four things you need: motivate, spot, direction, reward"
"Whats makes a horse responsive or lighter is a cue. A pre-cue is something you do before the cue."
"What a give feels like, you feel energy come up that rope and you let it go"
"The horse learns when he's doing it wrong not when he's doing it right"
"If everytime you get on you improve something - a little bit - over 1000 times you get on that horse thats a 1000% improvement. The key is to improve something every time you get into that saddle. Something is gonna get better"
Lyons Fact #719:
Don't be a passenger. Work.
Lyons Fact #3906:
If your horse bucks, if he bolts, whatever he does, as soon as you look at the ground at where you think you're going to hit, that's where you're guaranteed to land.
Lyons Fact #729:
I don't ask the horse to stop. I just quit riding.