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If you miss the beginning, the basics, then you are destined to go back and visit the basics.

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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
Destined
Visit
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Missing
Beginning
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Basics

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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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Simply put I'm trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.
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When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.
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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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When you see a horse that’s troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t still ask the horse to behave and find a way to fit in and respond to you as well.
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I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.
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There is something in the human psyche that there is a connection between horses and humans, a real special kind of a thing, and I guess it’s always been there. I hope it will always be there, I hope we don’t evolve past that.
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Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.
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Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.
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Don't get on a horse that's moving.
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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
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It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.
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There have been so many times over the years where people have said Man, I thought I was just coming to this deal to get a little handier with my horse and I'll say Well, in the beginning, I thought that's all you were coming for too. But it turns out it's about something else.
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In nature this animal would have nothing to do with you. Natural horsemanship is just words. It's not natural at all. There's an abundance of trust that must be developed for you. Imagine if humans were that pliable.
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Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare.’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, compare it to what you were doing before, and adjust.
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You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.
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One of the biggest challenges of a horsemen is to be able tot control your emotions.
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It’s not about how much pressure you put on, it’s how good you are at taking it off.
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Horses aren't lazy and they're not greedy and they're not jealous and they're not spiteful, they're not hateful. They're not that way. But the human can sometimes only describe a horse in the way that they view other human beings.
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Horses are very sensitive and perceptive. You don't have to be physical with them.
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