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The Round Pen - Step 16

20 Steps In Discover

Horsemanship - Discover “20 Steps In The Round Pen” Step # 16

Desensitize whole Body Of The Horse with your Hands

had a library where a wealth of knowledge was passed from one generation to another generation throughout our family. There were books about any interest that you could desire or think about in your life. Going back to my father and his love for his exotic fish, any time my father would pass in front of his aquariums, his fish would always come to the front of the aquarium wall to see him. We all thought that these fish were coming to him because he was the one feeding them, so we decided to try an experi- ment with them. We asked my father to walk back and forth in front of the aquari- um and these fish would actually follow him back and forth. What would you name this? I could not answer this. The rest of my family,

would like to share with you some important details about my father, because he has had the greatest influence in this great love for animals, and other life forms and has inserted this love inside of me. My father was a very gentle man, not only to people; he was a gentle man to all liv- ing things. When I was a child, we had not one but three aquariums with exot- ic fish in our home. My father enjoyed caring for them and enjoyed learning and reading about all of the different species. In our home we also

read in my introduction, or may have already viewed the video of my interview about how I was raised by my loving parents and the influence they had on my life, you will start to under- stand who I am and how important the love of all animal life is to me.

between the horse and the human. I will share with you how I understand and feel that this step #16 Desensitize whole body of the horse with your hands is the heart and the soul between me and my horses. As you have already

with my Discover “20 Steps in the Round Pen” in my Kozak Horsemanship with Step # 16 Desensitize whole body of the horse with your hands. I am very excited to share with you my readers and horse lovers this next step. I believe that in this step, a lot of philosophy, mystery, and you may even say magic

that happens Let’s now continue Russ Krachun “Kozak”

of this wonderful con- nection with living things my father also had a love for flowers and they also loved him back. You may say that this is impossi- ble, but I will tell you that it is possible. I have seen with my own eyes this amazing love. My father cared for a cactus that was only known to flower once each year. This cactus flowered for him not only once but seven times each year and was covered in flowers. No one would believe this, and many peo- ple would come to visit just to see this wonderful cac- tus.

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my mother, my brother and me would walk in front of the aquarium in this experi-

reality with our horses, I will be honored to share with you our next step to desensitize or you can also call this building confi- dence with our horse through our hands. I will also share with you some examples from our real life experiences with our hors- es. In one example, with your horse in a stall, you

things growing up with my father and realize what kind of man and what kind of person he was. I am very proud to call my father a gentle man and proud to have him as my father. I absorbed all of this like a sponge not even realizing this, but I don’t believe that I would be even close to be the man that he was. I believe that these special people are born one in a million. I am so proud to have the par- ents that I had. So, I hope that by sharing these stories you will understand some of the concepts of my Kozak Horsemanship and my thoughts towards my Discover “20 Steps in the Round Pen”. Getting back to our

attention and his love; I am not sure what to call this or maybe we don’t even have a word for this in our world. Maybe this is something that you just feel inside of you and how you are able to express this to your animals and to some people. He would talk to these fish and flowers and he loved them and I believe that they loved him back. I can’t tell you how many times he saved animals and birds from broken wings, or legs, or from hunger or being homeless. He would always find a way to save these animals and give them another chance in life. I watched all of these

My father gave his

ment, and the fish would just ignore us. We even tried this experiment when we were the ones who were feeding the fish, and they would still ignore us. In another example

vious steps, our horse is not afraid of our lasso, your horse knows how to stay still and face you, you can walk around your horse and throw the lasso on the horse and your horse stands still and trusts you. You have also taught your horse not to kick towards your

believe that this is not natu- ral horsemanship. There is nothing natural in what we are doing with our horses, we trim our horses feet, halter them, saddle them, train them, put them on the trailer, keep them penned

have heard dog trainers say, never to hit your dog with your hand, take a belt or stick so that the dog is not afraid of your hand. How stupid is that!

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you hear the term natural horsemanship, and these natural horsemen are using sticks to move their horses forward by tapping them on the neck or the hind quarters and then you my friends tell me that this is just an extension of your arm. Yes, it is an extension of your arm, and for me it is just aggression. It is the same for me as if you are hitting the horse with your arm or your own hand.

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people hit their horse in the face, because they feel that the horse is too nosey. Right away, they have taken the confidence away from the horse. Same thing when people yell at their horse, the confidence is again taken away. Today in the market,

between you and your horse.

I have also seen

another example, you may want to catch your horse in the paddock, and I am not even talking about catching your horse in the field; and your horse ignores you, runs away and again it is the same answer; no trust and no confidence or rela- tionship that

is built

between the horse and our- selves. Even when you may raise your hands very fast around your horses head, and they raise their head up in the air. Again, the same answer, no trust and no confidence.

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may open the door and ask your horse to come to you, the horse will ignore you, continue to eat their hay or may even turn and face you with their hind end. My answer to this situation, my readers is that we have not built

the confidence

up in the paddock, or even riding them and more is not natural. What I believe in is a

expressed their happy feel- ings, but do not think about how it may not feel pleas- ant to the horse. Imagine, my friends if your boss at work or if your husband, wife or child were to tap you on the head, neck or other body parts to tell you good job, do you think that you would enjoy this. The human has skin, hair, sensi- tive feelings, nerves and muscles and I believe that animals also have the same. Have you ever seen a mare take her tongue and tap her colt to show him her love this way? Never, she is very gentle, she licks him because she loves him, so let’s do the same and gently use our hands and rub them to show them our love.

is the reason that we have to finish this step # 16 (Desensitize whole body of the horse with your hands) in the round pen. It is because we want to build this important trust, confi- dence, love between our horses and ourselves. I always say in my clinics, seminars, or with my stu- dents when teaching my Discover “20 Steps in the Round Pen” that your hands are the most impor- tant tool that we have. You can’t buy a better tool or make a better tool than your hands. So how do we succeed in this step? Very easy, my friends; we have already completed the pre-

So, you may ask what

also seen many times, a person rewarding their horse by patting them on the neck or on the hip and say good boy or good girl. These people think that this is an enjoyable reward because

they have

healthy, safe; trusting and enjoyable horsemanship working in a partnership between the horse and the human. Let’s start to open up our minds and not be blind, use our brains and open our hearts.

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run away from you, so now let’s put this puzzle togeth- er and accomplish our goal in this step. We will now ask our horse to go forward and then after a couple of revolutions around the round pen, we will then ask our horse to stop and face you.

your horse, walking towards him by changing your direction from the left and then the right sides. Walk towards your horse with your eyes down, and not looking directly into his eyes; in doing this you are using body language that is used between animals. It is important in this step that you are the one walking toward your horse, and not the horse that walks towards you. It is this step that will help you to build the trust and the relation- ship with your horse, because when the human walks towards the animal and the animal does not run

You will then walk to

towards you from the hind quarters and to respect you and be loyal, safe and trusting from the hind quarters. You have also taught your horse to trust you from the front end and not to

lasso or

my Discover “20 Steps in the Round Pen”; I decide when I will go towards my horse not the horse deciding when to come to me. When I approach the horse for the first time, it is important to leave your horse right away and the horse should stand still and wait for you. You my friends should repeat this process a couple of times until you will see that your horse will want to fol- low you. Then you will take the most important tool, your hands, and then start to rub your horse right from the muzzle to the hind hoof on both the left and the right sides. You will feel and see that your horse will actually melt in your hands, their muscles will become soft and the horse will become relaxed and the trust and confidence will grow between each other. Remember to build this trust and this confi- dence takes a lot of time, a lot of hard work and a lot of patience, and to take it away only takes one sec- ond, and to rebuild once it has been lost will take even longer to get back. So be kind to your partner, it real- ly does not matter if it is your horse, a dog, bird, fish or a flower. Don’t hit, yell,

away it shows that real trust and a relationship is building. This is one example of how I am different in

or abuse, just simply give lots of love and attention and I will guarantee to you that you will receive more than you give. Please take your time, finish this step consistently and you will get success in any of my steps of my Discover “20 Steps in the Round Pen”.

Building Partnerships- Step by Step

hello at my booth at the All Equine Event March 14- 16/14. I will share with you, demonstrations of my Discover “20 Steps in the Round Pen”; Soft and Sup- ple Horse; Speed Control; and Lunging with Confi- dence. April 25-27/14, I will

Please stop in and say

be travelling to Red Deer Alberta to compete in the Trainers Challenge held at The Mane Event. I feel honored to have been cho- sen to compete in this event. Your support and wishes will be appreciat- ed!!

book and for more infor- mation and please visit my web site at; www.koza- khorsemanship.com Thank you; Russ Krachun

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