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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
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If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.
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The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. All he wants you to do is just leave him alone. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.
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Theoretically, the human is supposed to be the smart one. Well, if we are, then we need to be able to adjust to fit the situation rather than just think Well this is how you work with horses. I've done this on 500 just like you.
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You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways.
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There are things that change all through your life the way you deal with people, the way you approach problems.
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You try to do as little as you can, but you need to do as much as is necessary to get a result. When you get a result, you do less.
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You allow a horse to make mistakes, the horse will learn from mistakes no different than the human. But you can't get him to where he dreads making mistakes for fear of what's going to happen after he does.
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Most people think of a feel as when you touch something or someone and what it feels like to your fingers but, a feel can have a thousand different definitions. Sometimes feel is a mental thing. Sometimes feel can happen clear ‘cross the arena. Sort of an invitation from the horse to come to you.
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My teachers used to tell me you need to learn to adjust to fit the situation. Don't just do what you've always done because it might not always work.
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Someone who doesn't know anything about the ways of the horse could be fooled into thinking the approach is all cosmic or mystical. It's not. Anybody can do it who has a passion to do it and has put in enough time. These people are horsemen and horsewomen, not whisperers.
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I'm still on the move, I'm getting better because I'm still studying. I still want to be a better horseman.
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Your Horse is a mirror to your soul.
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Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.
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The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.
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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
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Horses are very sensitive and perceptive. You don't have to be physical with them.
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The horse can just be a great vehicle for some people to overcome things in their life that they might not be able to overcome otherwise.
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Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.
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I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together.
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Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.
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