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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.
Buck Brannaman
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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
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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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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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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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If you miss the beginning, the basics, then you are destined to go back and visit the basics.
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That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome.
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One of the biggest challenges of a horsemen is to be able tot control your emotions.
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They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.
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Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.
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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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Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
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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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You can't make something happen with a horse, but you can fix things up and let it happen.
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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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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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On a horse there is a perfect position of balance where he doesn't feel like he's pushing you along with him or dragging you along with him. It's like two converging currents in a river, where those currents converge, there is a point where there is no movement, no energy and that's what you're thinking when you're on the back of a horse.
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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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With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.
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A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems.
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With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.
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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
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