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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
Basics
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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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A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.
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I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.
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You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward.
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Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.
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You get that horse to really operate as if he’s your legs and you can take that anywhere you want. You can dress up in any kind of clothes you like. You can be a jumper, dressage rider, trail rider, cowboy, anything.
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Some guys make their careers off one horse kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for me I'm trying to get better and study. That means taking out new horses. It's a life study. When I've finished a horse, I turn him out and basically stop riding him, except taking him to the occasional branding so I can enjoy him.
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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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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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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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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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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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My work is my play. I found a way to make my passion to be the same as how I make a living.
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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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They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.
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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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Don't get on a horse that's moving.
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The comforting thing to the horse is, is as you become more and more accurate, he knows you’re aware of him, and pretty soon because of that he’s aware of you more and more of the time.
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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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