Mark Langley Horsemanship Solutions for Partnership

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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What can you do when your horse gets a VERY strong focus?

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: what practical things can you do when your horse gets a very strong focus.
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Advice for a mare who won’t respond to legs or reins out on trail

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 for a horse that bucks, kicks and crow hops when she goes into the arena or round pen for training; a mare who won't respond to legs or reins out on track and keeps going off the side; an ex polo pony who can be explosive at the canter; and how to stop a horse from spinning away when you take their halter off.
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2 COMMON horsemanship practices that you don’t need to do! The patience pole + lunging to tire. Here’s why.

Do people tell you to tie your horse up to teach them not to pore the ground or to learn to stand tied up? Have you seen people lunging their horses to tire them out before they ride them? Here's Australian horseman Mark Langley's perspective on these common practices! It might just answer some niggles you already had about these. 
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Advice for a horse that is spooky on one eye

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 a horse that is especially spooky on one eye; and what's the next step when you are slowly getting your mare used to scary things undersaddle - this time it is waving your arms above your head at a stand but she is okay when she is following a rein.
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How to help a horse that is hard to worm or girth

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 a horse that raises its head like a giraffe when it comes to worming; how to help a horse that doesn't like being girthed; how to decide if your horse is ready to transition from single rein to contact; how to ask for different speeds within a gait.
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Helping anxious horses that back up on trail

Ever had a horse that backs up and won't go forward on trail no matter how hard you try? Horseman Mark Langley helps out with explaining why they are doing and what we need to do to get them back with us, calmer and more centred undersaddle. In this podcast he covers 3 different horses all doing similar things but each one needing a different approach to help it.
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

Fundamental groundskills prior to mounting for the first 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. This week: Mark advises on some fundamental groundwork to cover prior to mounting a horse for the first time; helping a horse to relax under saddle; advice for long reining a donkey.
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How to get your horse more responsive to a flag if they appear to ignore it

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 get your horse responsive to a flag if it appears they ignore it; managing pawing at feeding time; how to best introduce a new horse into a herd.
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Tips to get your horse to stand for the farrier + muscle soreness indicators

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 when is the best age to start to handle foals?; building fitness - when is it too much?; tips to get your horse to stand.
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Ex Pacers: How to help them carry less tension and more balance

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: Ex Pacers: how to help them carry less tension and more balance.
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Swapping eyes: is it worth it? + When it all goes wrong - when we fail - is it always back to basics?

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: Swapping eyes - is it worth it?; when it all goes wrong, is it always back to basics in our approach or does it depend on the reaction of the horse?; managing fright from a noisy coat rubbing.
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Stopping the 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: how to stop the pull back.
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How to manage these challenging horses: 1 that charges at geldings you are leading + 1 that kicks to move 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. This week: Advice for the final stages of floating; how to deal with a horse that charges at geldings you lead through his paddock; and how to manage a horse that kicks, not out of fear but deliberately to move people.
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