Start Right!! Safely mounting a green horse for the very first time.

Training horses always involves some risk of injury (or even death) to the horse, the trainer, any spectators, equipment used, etc. - this risk is totally your own as you will be making your own judgements on what to do. As with any suggestions on any subject you must weigh them out for yourself and proceed accordingly - at your own risk. Nutmeg - first saddling - first ride - 25 May 2024 https://rumble.com/v4xgpzt-nutmeg-first-saddling-first-ride-25-may-2024.html To watch first mounting bareback go here - Nutmeg - first time with a person on her back 23 May 2024 https://rumble.com/v4x15r9-nutmeg-first-time-with-a-person-on-her-back-23-may-2024.html Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Saddling and first ride on Rain the Spotted Saddle Horse - 26 Oct 2023 Training horses always involves some risk of injury (or even death) to the horse, the trainer, any spectators, equipment used, etc. - this risk is totally your own as you will be making your own judgements on what to do. As with any suggestions on any subject you must weigh them out for yourself and proceed accordingly - at your own risk. Rain had a traumatic experience the last time she had a saddle on her back prior to this. So I work hard to help her see that this time around all is calm and right so she can have confidence. I apologize that I rode out of camera view a number of times. I generally have no camera man - just my phone on a tripod aimed where I hope it is pointed so it captures what is happening visually and also what I am saying. It caught quite a bit of the session until I started riding at a walk - after that I managed to get out of view of the phone camera a number of times - sorry. But I do hope you can learn from the video nonetheless and I think you probably can. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they PROMISE to uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Training horses always involves some risk of injury (or even death) to the horse, the trainer, any spectators, equipment used, etc. - this risk is totally your own as you will be making your own judgements on what to do. As with any suggestions on any subject you must weigh them out for yourself and proceed accordingly - at your own risk. At approx 4min34sec in to this video my Start Right!! process begins - intentionally defusing the 4 anti-predator triggers associated with mounting a horse. At 17min43sec (13min9sec later) I am fully sitting up on Nutmeg for the very first time she has ever had a person sitting on her back and she is standing like a statue. This webpage explains the Start Right!! process https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Yes if you are going to start your own horse I do believe you should use my Start Right!! process so that you KNOW you intentionally defused all 4 anti-predator triggers associated with mounting a horse the very first time. Obviously it is your choice - your decision - completely your own risk because you are deciding for yourself. Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they are oath bound to defend and uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Decades back the Lord guided me to notice that common issues with mounting a horse the very first time (or two or three) revolved primarily around the horse misidentifying what the human (an omnivorous apex predator) was doing. Basically noticing that the horse was believing that the human mounting was a predatory threat to its life which very naturally would then trigger in the horse an instinctual anti-predator response to get that predator off their back. This is only the second time we have filmed the process I have been using for decades. This video is raw, uncut, unedited - you see the entire process start to finish with me both working with the horse and also narrating. The horse I am working with is Cinnamon the 3yr old Gypsy-Shire filly. She has never had anyone on her back before today Friday 12 May 2023 when this video was recorded. This process is described in writing here. https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.htmlhttps://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Our first video of this process showed Joel (my youngest son) doing the process on a horse to assess what it knew and to fill in gaps left by a previous trainer many years before. That video is just over a half hour long while this one is nearly an hour long. https://rumble.com/v1ds7nx-start-right-defusing-the-anti-predator-responses-associated-with-mounting-a.html Since every horse is different and it is important to correctly read the body language of the horse it may be wise to watch both videos and also read the description of the process to get a better understanding. Training horses always involves some risk of injury (or even death) to the horse, the trainer, any spectators, equipment used, etc. - this risk is totally your own as you will be making your own judgements on what to do. As with any suggestions on any subject you must weigh them out for yourself and proceed accordingly - at your own risk. Remember to read, study, and ponder upon God's word each day and also pray each day to find out what God needs you to do today and then do it. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer with a waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html .

Start Right!! session two in light rain on Rain the Spotted Saddle Horse - 25 Oct 2023 https://rumble.com/v3rpij4-start-right-session-two-rain-the-spotted-saddle-horse-25-oct-2023.html Training horses always involves some risk of injury (or even death) to the horse, the trainer, any spectators, equipment used, etc. - this risk is totally your own as you will be making your own judgements on what to do. As with any suggestions on any subject you must weigh them out for yourself and proceed accordingly - at your own risk. The previous day during the first Start Right!! session it took about 40 minutes to fully prepare Rain for me to bareback mount and sit up on Rain the first time while she stood like a statue on a loose rein. The very next day in session two I was sitting up on her in just under 8 minutes after doing a rapid review to assess retention - or in other words to assess IF you taught the horse in a way it could understand clearly. To get a full text description and other videos of my Start Right!! method of defusing the four anti-predator triggers associated with mounting a horse go to the following link https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Remember to intentionally, on purpose, learn of God each day by prayerfully reading, studying, and pondering upon God's word each day. Talk to God in prayer as your Heavenly Father who would like for you to be His friend. Find out what He would like you to do for Him as His friend and go and do it for Him as His friend. Yes very intentionally, very much on purpose, become the friend of God. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier accepting new clients in my core area https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Colt Starting Trainer - contact me to get your horse on my waiting list https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Constitution Coach Freedom is the cure - Learn, Love, Live the Principles of Liberty https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html . How did your federal and State reps and senators vote in relation to the Constitution they PROMISE to uphold? https://thefreedomindex.org/ .

Start Right!! - Defusing the anti-predator responses associated with mounting a horse. My youngest son, Joel, is demonstrating how we get a horse ready to be mounted safely the very first time OR how we assess if a horse has been properly prepared to be safely mounted by either an owner or a previous trainer. Decades back the Lord guided me to notice that common issues with mounting a horse the very first time revolved primarily around the horse misidentifying what the human (an omnivorous apex predator) was doing as a predatory threat to its life which very naturally would then trigger in the horse an instinctual anti-predator response to get that predator off their back. This is the first time we have filmed the process I have been using for decades. This video is raw, uncut, unedited - you see the entire process start to finish with me narrating and occasionally you can hear something which Joel is saying (generally to the horse) as he works to see which triggers were and were not defused on 9yr old Hank the Missouri Fox Trotter who has not been worked with in years. Hank has been ridden years back but allegedly was not trained much nor well. So we need to see what he knows and fill in any holes in his training from years back. Joel follows the exact process we use on a horse which has never had a rider on its back - but is able to move in a bit quicker as he discovers what has already been defused (either intentionally or simply incidentally). Joel spends about a half hour to get Hank to the point where he is able to from both sides do a Indian style Swing Up bareback mount with Hank simply standing still fully accepting it. On a "never mounted before" horse the process is typically completed in 45 minutes +/- 15 minutes - depending on the horse. This process is described in writing here. https://griffes.tripod.com/startright.htmlhttps://griffes.tripod.com/startright.html Training horses always involves some risk of injury (or even death) to the horse, the trainer, any spectators, equipment used, etc. - this risk is totally your own as you will be making your own judgements on what to do. As with any suggestions on any subject you must weigh them out for yourself and proceed accordingly - at your own risk. Remember to read, study, and ponder upon God's word each day and also pray each day to find out what God needs you to do today and then do it. And have a blessed day!! Jack Griffes Certified Farrier - Colt Starting Trainer https://griffes.tripod.com/farrier.html Be part of the solution - Learn Founding Principles https://griffes.tripod.com/Learn-Founding-Principles.html