Rain's first session - pick up rider from raised mounting platform - 6 Jan 2024

This is Rain's first session learning to pick up her rider from a raised mounting platform. She has some trouble connecting the dots of what I am asking at the start - so you can see my approach shift to try and help her understand. This was a VERY long first session teaching a horse to pick up its rider from a raised mounting platform. At about 51.20 minutes my mic quit working and the video is silent for about two minutes until I get the mic back working again and my narration resumes. I left the silent video portion in so you see the whole training session. I cut out the video of me fixing the mic issue and commenting on the mic issue and resumed the video where the training starts anew - so no part of the actual training was cut out.

I could have stopped this session when it was much shorter - so why did I keep the session going for about an hour and a third? The horse was still willing to learn. And very slowly progress was being made. So I kept the training session going until it looked clear that she was done learning for the session - at which point I stopped.

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.

You can see videos of other first sessions with other horses here on my website https://griffes.tripod.com/comeover.html and that may prove helpful - because every horse learns at a different speed and requires a bit of adaptation in training.

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!!

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