Mark Langley Horsemanship Solutions for Partnership

How to stop a mare kicking at other horses undersaddle

­­­­ Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. This week Mark helps answer these questions: how strict should you be about holding a horse's focus at liberty?; how to stop a mare from kicking other horses under saddle; how to get a horse to stand still when flexing; and tips to help with a heavy, bracey horse in leading. As always, Mark's answers are full of explanations as to why horses do the things they do - helping us to gain a much deeper perspective on how best to adapt our training to support their growth and happy mindset.
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Retraining a Negative Learned Response

How do you approach Retraining your horse when they have set responses - some might be negative? This episode is all about this topic with horseman Mark Langley ready to provide positive solutions to help you. Specifically, hear how to help a horse that randomly bucked; how to help a horse that is nippy with mounting and legs; and how to get a 3 year old to remain focused.
­­­­Australian horseman Mark Langley's techniques explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
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Who has inspired me + Top Tips to Check

Has Tom Dorrance Inspired me? How do you help with Pack Saddle Nerves? What's the best way to mouth a horse who has had a bad experience with worming paste? How do you help a horse that sees monsters everywhere? And what can you do as an alternative to a noisy distraction (like a sudden slap on your leg)? Find out here! Plus: My list of things to check before riding a Young Start.
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Defensive Aggression: Tips to help!

Mark Langley explains how to help a pony who is still aggressive to tack and rug after stomach ulcer treatment: there is hope! And advice for a warmblood previously held in frame and now shut down who doesn't want to back up - how do we know it's not pain related? Mark gives his expert advice.
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
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Perfecting Leading: Help when it goes wrong

Insights into why Mark rates leading so much + help with specific areas of leading for: a horse that has got less soft since firming up on the leading; a horse that shuts down when being led; a previously driven mare who get's sour when asked to trot on the lunge; and should calming paste be used for traveling a horse that has fallen down in a trailer?
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
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Separation Anxiety! How to help!

Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. THIS WEEK: how to help horses with Separation Anxiety: the over-focused riding horse; avoiding separation anxiety issues when you ride alone; stopping the grazing when field walking; and advice for a horse that WANTS to leave the barn and is on a mission!
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Going to a Show? Advice if you are trotting in hand

Heading to a Show and need your horse to trot in hand well? Here's some tips! Also advice on helping your horse to cross water on the way out from home; helping a horse that doesn't like forward in the arena; and insights into why a horse might have bucked with the girth as a one off.
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
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Does feed play a part in a horse’s behaviour?

This week: how to help horses to walk out ahead in a straight line or trot in hand next to you; advice for a horse whose focus is hard to get; how much does what your feeding play a part in your horse's behaviour? 
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
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Training Repetition: how much is too much ???

Some specific training advice on bringing a horse back into work after time off - what to do and what to look out for; when is too much when you are training - particularly when you repeat a task? Hear Mark's thoughts on this - something everyone should hear! And have you ever had a horse you really struggled with? Are some horses just not a good match for some people? Plus: training stallions: some tips from Mark on his experience with them and how to keep the process smooth.
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
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Ready to get back in the saddle after a fall? Tips to help your confidence!

Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. This week: Tips on what to look for to improve your confidence when you are ready to get back in the saddle after a fall; how to manage a pony that kicks other horses; and how to densitise a horse to a ball and racquet - some great tips to try!
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Specific advice to help undersaddle

In this session, Mark Langley offers advice for horses in situations undersaddle: how to re-educate a horse that avoids bit pressure to be comfortable with the bit again; how to get a soft canter transition in a horse that has had time off from injury and now goes into a bucky-bolty canter; how to get a good trot-halt; and how to help a horse that is obedient but anxious.
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Flighty, wild, nervous horses: how to help them on the ground

Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. To kick off the 2023 season, Mark offers advice to help with highly nervous horses on the ground: how to manage a wild horse that is very scared of people; how to help a standardbred in an explosive moment; how to connect with a mare that doesn't know your personal boundary; and exercises to do that help a horse scared of sudden movements.
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How to transition to a bit

How to introduce ponying to a horse that gets cranky with it; how to transition to a bit from a bitless/ sidepull; signs of stress or impatience?; what does yawning mean? And can learned avoidance behaviours be changed with time?
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
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The pro’s & con’s of Passenger Riding + Leg Aids

Does "Passenger Riding" help people and horses? And advice for setting boundaries whilst introducing leg aids on a horse that was dull to legs.
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
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A look into 2 horsemanship approaches: ”Keep them busy” + Feel

Mark's thoughts on the common approach when dealing with a nervous horse: to move it's feet until it stops and settles, or "keep them busy". And Feel: why teach it through a rope as oppose to guiding with our energy or intention? What are the applications of it? Plus: the best videos to watch on the Membership if you are new to Mark / have a horse with separation anxiety.
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How to stop a horse biting again! + Regain confidence

How to establish clear boundaries to let your horse know they can never bite, and how to regain confidence once lost because this has happened. 
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
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The usefulness of Carrot Sticks + Stopping the big Grass Eaters

Mark's thoughts on the usefulness of carrot sticks (or similar) as training aids: can horses ever get past associating them with previous escalations of pressure if now used in a different way? And how do you stop horses taking chunks of grass out on trail? Mark has horse training tips for you!
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
Learn more from Mark through his Online Horsemanship Videos – 7 day FREE trial then just $15/mth. Cancel + rejoin at any time. https://www.equineability.com.au/join

Does your horse trip? How to help!

Mark helps with ideas to understand and help a horse who trips on the lunge. He was a ranch-horse; and possibly wasn't allowed to make his own choices in the past. Here's Marks thoughts on how to help him.
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
Learn more from Mark through his Online Horsemanship Videos – 7 day FREE trial then just $15/mth. Cancel and rejoin at any time. https://www.equineability.com.au/join

How to train at liberty in the right way

If you use liberty with your horse or have any inclination to want to do it you might want to listen to this. Advice from the horse's pyschological perspective in getting liberty right.
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When is it okay to say ’no’ to a horse that has just started opening up to you?

When is stopping to smell manure in a previously shut-down/ gazy horse a good thing or a hindrance? Advice for a horse that kicks whilst out on trail. And why I use an indirect rein as oppose to an inside leg to stop a horse from falling in.
Australian horseman Mark Langley answers common horse related questions, using techniques that explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. 
Learn more from Mark through his Online Horsemanship Videos – 7 day FREE trial then just $15/mth. Cancel any time. https://www.equineability.com.au/join