Pick up your rider - session two - Ashur - 13 Sept 2023

Picking up your rider from a raised mounting platform is an always helpful and sometimes essential skill to teach a horse. This video is Session Two - so if you missed Session One this is the link to it https://rumble.com/v3h6ke6-pick-up-your-rider-session-one-ashur-12-sept-2023.html

Session Two was done the very next morning. Ashur was brought out of the pasture - put on Stand-Stay https://griffes.tripod.com/standstay.html for currying, saddling, bridling and then completely cold (no warm up of any kind) we set up the tripod and did Session Two which you can see in full, unedited from the moment I press start to the moment I press end. What you don't see is that after I lead Ashur back to put away the tripod I then had him pick me up off the horse trailer fender. After our training ride he dropped me off on the horse trailer fender and then picked me up off a couple round bales of different heights - one quite a bit taller than the other. And he picked me up off those completely new places without getting all worried about it - he understands what I am asking him to do - and he has agreed to do it when I ask. And that makes all the difference IMO.

Every horse learns at a different speed. And often as you work with a horse a LOT they get so they learn quicker for you because you have developed a working relationship of trust with them. So you can see a couple other horses being taught the same skill here https://griffes.tripod.com/comeover.html so you can see horses with different learning speed getting taught the same skill.

Training horses always involves some risk of injury (or even death) to the horse, the trainer, any spectators, equipment used, etc. - this risk is totally your own as you will be making your own judgements on what to do. As with any suggestions on any subject you must weigh them out for yourself and proceed accordingly - at your own risk.

Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!!

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