Mark Langley Horsemanship Solutions for Partnership

How to manage mouthiness - is it aggression?

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 manage mouthiness (biting the saddle blanket, playing, chewing) - is it aggression? Some really good tips here to help check you are reading your horse correctly; how to help a mare who blocks you with her head when you get close; and are there different types of anxiety in horses that need to be treated differently?
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Can you combine different horsemanship techniques? Marks thoughts!

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 build balance + softness in an ex-pacer transitioning to riding; how to teaching a horse to side-pass (there are some interesting comments on how to do this without brace); and Mark's thoughts on whether you can combine different training techniques.
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Where you need to start to gain connection

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 starts with explaining what you need to do first to gain connection with your horse (in detail); he offers advice for a horse that is now aggressive following being opened up at a clinic; and how to help a horse that won't self-load.
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How to address rearing: in detail

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 answers how to address rearing in a lot of detail, giving tips on stopping it in the first place and what to do if it happens; advice for horses that become anxious when being led near a friend that is going away from them - Mark gives a fascinating insight into the horse's perspective; and Mark's thoughts on ponying - how to use it as a good training tool.
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How do you help a horse pass something scary without using pressure?

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 your horse pass something scary - like a creek - but not in the traditional way; Mark explains how he teaches using reins and legs - which is different possibly to what you do but makes sense to the horse; and how to help a horse that gets stressed on overnight trips.
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Why do horses shake their heads and how can we help this?

Why do horses shake their heads? And how can we help this? Plus, how to help a green horse accept people above him; and steps you can practise to get things right when you are bringing a horse back into work.
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
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How to help a horse feel comfortable, not shut down, in a wash bay

Marks advice on helping a horse to feel comfortable and not shut down in a wash bay, as well as knowing when to turn on/ off the hose; how to transfer your ground skills to under-saddle so that your green horse understands what you are asking with the reins; and how and when to use a flag to help your horse to learn when it is dull in the back up.
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. https://www.equineability.com.au/join

How to stop your horse lifting it’s leg to your touch

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 change your horse's taught response to lift it's leg when you touch to keeping it still and why; how to handle a horse for the first time - specifically the older wild horses and untouched rescue horses; and what positive responses should we be looking for in training - is food one of them?
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How to teach a horse to cross a gully without rushing

Making a clear boundary is acceptable: knowing how and when to do this is important with dealing with all horses, but especially aggressive horses. This week Mark talks about how to manage aggressive horses in a herd; and gives a advice for a horse that is challenging on a lead. He also talks about how he would teach a horse not to run through a gully or dry river bed; and how you can send Mark a video to review for free.
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. https://www.equineability.com.au/join

If you don’t drive, how do you exercise without pressure?

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 can you exercise a horse that can't be ridden without putting pressure on it? Why does a horse refuse to go forwards? How to stop pawing in a float. And how to load 2 horses that don't get on.
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Separation Anxiety + Floating: helping a horse that sweats alone

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: Where to work horses in relation to their mates (close by or somewhere else); how to help a horse that floats fine unless it is solo; my thoughts on the "patience pole"; and my preferred rein with a snaffle bit and why.
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How to strike the correct canter

One thing will effect which leg your horse strikes in the canter: and its probably not what you have been told. Horseman Mark Langley reveals the tips to successful horsemanship. 
His techniques explain the psychology needed to help your horse improve. His calm connected yet highly practical approach works with all horses. This week: Restarting a horse - advice the best approach; kicking when stomach is touched; how to start to work with a horse that has always run with a herd and stresses to highly when brought into the yards; advice for a horse that won't move away from it's friends in the arena; getting a left canter lead; helping a standard bred to canter out front on trail.
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Rearing & Bucking

Are some horses just unpredictable buckers? How to stop rearing under saddle; and advice for bucking on a lunge.
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. https://www.equineability.com.au/join

Perfecting our Presence

How do you gain the confidence needed to be truly grounded? 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 gain confidence; what to do if being "like a tree" isn't enough; what should you do when your horse completely ignores you in the paddock when you go to catch; and how to manage anxiety that causes weaving and pushing when leading.
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How to give a horse a sense of purpose to engage them mentally

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 engage a horse mentally by giving them a sense of purpose; how best to transition from loose contact to contact with reins; how to improve trot transitions that cause worry - do you carry on doing them or go back to other work to help them feel better first?
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Tiny horses: how to avoid intimidating them

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: Tiny horses - how to help avoid intimidating them and how to increase their confidence; advice for trimming edgy horses after a storm; helping a horse feel better at the mounting block.
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Why does a forward moving mare suddenly stop when anxious?

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: Why does a forward moving mare suddenly stop when anxious; why did a horse suddenly buck from a noise?; and advice on how to continue with a re-start who was braced in the reins and the owner is wanting to continue with connection.
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Yearlings: How to catch a young horse & how to stop a pull back

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: Advice on how to catch a young horse that is wary of the halter; and advice to stop a pull back when you are starting to teach leading.
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What signs do you look for to tell your horse is thinking in the direction of the rein?

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 the halter works when riding forward; Signs that your horse is thinking in the direction of your reins; Advice for a braced horse that blocks his shoulder on the left bend and that doesn't want to move forward; How to get your horse used to a crupper
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Can you help all damaged (shut down/ broken) horses and if so, how?

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 is all about shut down/ damaged/ broken horses - an area Mark has a huge depth of experience with. His take on can you help them, what do you look for; and how do you make those forward steps. 
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