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Re: [RC] update on bucky twh.... - Don HustonHello Lori,A few horses back I was riding a well broke TB out on trails. Did a lot of easy stuff the first month then started off cross country, brushpopping as you say. Got down to the bottom of a steep ravine and the horse lost his mind, rearing, bucking, spinning, huge leaps, what a show. My buddy sat on the other side grinning. After 15 mins of mostly spinning and rearing the horse was finally tired enough to stand when I asked but only if he was facing parallel to or uphill away from the ravine. During one of these rests I got the idea to try backing up and what a surprise, that bad boy backed right into the bottom and stood there so we rested again. Turned him and he jumped right out so we circled to head back into the bottom and he refused so turned, stopped a minute then backed right on in again and a few more times then left. Over the next several weeks I would ride down toward small gullies and ditches until the horse got real tense then stop and back in then out. Very soon gullies became a non-issue. The high dollar label for this training procedure is "The Backasswards Technique" :-D Don Huston At 03:29 PM 9/6/2006 Wednesday, you wrote: Everything was fine on the last ride, but had my husband on him to see what would happen. He pulled the same scenario with my husband, brushpopping same as last time, last horse, as he was going down ditch, he takes the bit, heads down the ditch line, in a lunge buck motion. Thankfully, this was a wider place, and my husband got him circled, and rode the wheels off of him right there. I've also noticed, coming off the side into a stream bed, or doing a steep 3 length out, he wants to get on the hind end, do a rear like his whole attitude changes in these particular cases.
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