OMG YOU GUYZ i have just learnt how to embed video. i posted this yesterday & didn't think it worked for some reason, but beybladesabre managed to see it
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yay for squeeze game over dodgy jumps. :-) I believe I have a video like that too, only Sage BREAKS the jump on the 3rd or 4rth time over, lol! I don't know if I ever posted it tho. Anyways...
Your body language is so nice and calm but confident right up until the end when I maybe get the feeling yr pissed at him for walking thru you??? But I think I pick up on that in how you're staring at him. Hard eyes=predator. Honestly if he did that to me I would have had a very similar response...and gotten bigger esp. with my right arm...like "hellooo???" I take it he was pooped and somehow didn't feel he had it in him to respond huh?
Squeeze game over a jump is about pressure from underneath. The opposite is something like a car wash obstacle where there's usually a bar overhead that they have to walk under, with flapping plastic strips or something similar that brushes over the top of them. For Sage, squeeze game over a jump = super borrring Mom! So he actually often ignores me on the whole turn and face thing because he feels I've done it too much and he's quite bored now. It is challenging sometimes keeping such a left-brained horse interested in my baby steps...
i was pissed & very BLAH. plus i had an audience, which takes some getting used to. i didn't notice the predator eyes at first, but now you point them out, i can see. i have to be really conscious of not doing them! i find i eyeball him at the slightest thing. ugh, my bad. and i felt i should have used a lot more energy from my guts because it seemed to just come from my arm - hence his ignoring it - there was no meaning behind it?
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thanks for explaining the squeeze over a jump. very interesting.
audiences certainly *do* take getting used to, don't they? Parelli play days are helping me with that and I 'freeze' less often than I used to, but...still happens, esp. around non-parelli types that are really giving me the hairy eyeball to begin with.
I think it's helped me a lot to videotape myself working with Sage...I need to do that more often / start doing that again now that spring is here. A few different people have commented on how confident I seem lately and I'm curious to see if that translates into my work with Sage. I know that watching old videos always makes me cringe...I always think I'm so much better than I really am!!! Do I *really* look like such a wuss? What a pushover! (Hopefully that's changing...)
Anyways, I totally understand about audiences, whether in human or electronic form... :/
On the energy front...this may sound strange but I actually think he may need more stillness. At least I am finding in my sessions with Brad that the more stillness I can give him, the easier it is for him to sort out the signals from the 'noise.' He perceives a fairly high level of 'noise' even when I think nothing is going on, so its interesting to feel out his boundaries. Besides, feeling pissed & blah will always affect yr energy which is exactly what tao of equus is all about (I know, I don't blame you for wanting to hit me for dragging up that darned book again). But basically, of course your energy will reflect your emotions, which is why Linda Kohanov talks about doing a body scan before working with your horse, to just check in and be aware of your own emotions. I often find on bumpier days it helps for me to just stand with Sage or sit nearby for a few minutes and let my emotions shift and settle down some before working him. Not always possible on busy days, but helpful when I can do it...
oooh, very helpful. petra told me (before i got broke & could afford lessons) that because bj is so sensitive if i keep working at it, he should respond just from very slight lifts of the rope etc. upon reflection i realise that i *really* worked at being able to do that during transitions in 'lunging' or circling game, but not so much in my daily parelli life. i also tend to have a fairly structured 'time' with him, so more sitting still & thinking with him nearby. i know that i cannot go & see him if i am at all worked up because he is *such* a mirror and will straightaway reflect what i'm feeling/thinking, so it's important for me to be as relaxed as possible. but i think chilling with him nearby & appreciating stillness will help a lot.
Yeah, Sage is great with scared little kids but even he cannot tolerate being around me when I am really worked up. And yet...one of the best things for me when I am out of sorts that way is to just go and sit with him. I find I end up picking up his calmness that way, rather than him having to mirror my upsetness.
I would agree with Petra...even watching yr video I would guess to disengage his hq's you could just lean forward and stare at his bum and not have to tap the ground with the CS or anything... BUT that requires really having a good neutral position when you're not giving him a signal...upright and calm, relaxed, fairly unengaged, so that leaning forward and staring at his bum is clearly different from 'neutral.'
Your body language is so nice and calm but confident right up until the end when I maybe get the feeling yr pissed at him for walking thru you??? But I think I pick up on that in how you're staring at him. Hard eyes=predator. Honestly if he did that to me I would have had a very similar response...and gotten bigger esp. with my right arm...like "hellooo???" I take it he was pooped and somehow didn't feel he had it in him to respond huh?
Squeeze game over a jump is about pressure from underneath. The opposite is something like a car wash obstacle where there's usually a bar overhead that they have to walk under, with flapping plastic strips or something similar that brushes over the top of them. For Sage, squeeze game over a jump = super borrring Mom! So he actually often ignores me on the whole turn and face thing because he feels I've done it too much and he's quite bored now. It is challenging sometimes keeping such a left-brained horse interested in my baby steps...
Yay for embedded video! :-)
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idk.
thanks for explaining the squeeze over a jump. very interesting.
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I think it's helped me a lot to videotape myself working with Sage...I need to do that more often / start doing that again now that spring is here. A few different people have commented on how confident I seem lately and I'm curious to see if that translates into my work with Sage. I know that watching old videos always makes me cringe...I always think I'm so much better than I really am!!! Do I *really* look like such a wuss? What a pushover! (Hopefully that's changing...)
Anyways, I totally understand about audiences, whether in human or electronic form... :/
On the energy front...this may sound strange but I actually think he may need more stillness. At least I am finding in my sessions with Brad that the more stillness I can give him, the easier it is for him to sort out the signals from the 'noise.' He perceives a fairly high level of 'noise' even when I think nothing is going on, so its interesting to feel out his boundaries. Besides, feeling pissed & blah will always affect yr energy which is exactly what tao of equus is all about (I know, I don't blame you for wanting to hit me for dragging up that darned book again). But basically, of course your energy will reflect your emotions, which is why Linda Kohanov talks about doing a body scan before working with your horse, to just check in and be aware of your own emotions. I often find on bumpier days it helps for me to just stand with Sage or sit nearby for a few minutes and let my emotions shift and settle down some before working him. Not always possible on busy days, but helpful when I can do it...
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Yeah, Sage is great with scared little kids but even he cannot tolerate being around me when I am really worked up. And yet...one of the best things for me when I am out of sorts that way is to just go and sit with him. I find I end up picking up his calmness that way, rather than him having to mirror my upsetness.
I would agree with Petra...even watching yr video I would guess to disengage his hq's you could just lean forward and stare at his bum and not have to tap the ground with the CS or anything... BUT that requires really having a good neutral position when you're not giving him a signal...upright and calm, relaxed, fairly unengaged, so that leaning forward and staring at his bum is clearly different from 'neutral.'
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