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- [Steve] All right, so now I let her go.
Notice where the nose is sticking out and the head is high.
(laughing)
Notice the head high, notice the nose sticking out.
There comes the head,
little bit right there.
There's some more there.
Notice how the ropes on each side are going right, left,
right, left, naturally as the animal moves its shoulder,
It's naturally making the right, left, right, left motion.
- [Man] What are you doin'?
Looking for an escape. (laughing)
- [Steve] There's surely a way I can get away
from this short fat guy.
(giggling)
Now watch in places, watch where the mule drops his head.
That's really key, watch where he gets his nose.
There's places he's starting to get comfortable.
There's his heads dropping, there's his head dropping.
You see that?
(kissing calls)
I always scare the crap outta these mules.
(laughter)
So this ain't gonna be done, like all right now
but I want to get y'all and idea.
Notice how, as the mule walks, the ropes go right, left,
right, left.
So their rolling on the nose, just like my hands was.
And it's basically saying to the.
You're finally gonna recognize me, huh?
It's basically saying to the animal, get your head down.
Cause you see those two knots on his nose,
is starting to makes sense to him.
And the more you do something like this,
like you can take your saddle,
and tie those twines up.
Look at him dropping his head.
And do this with him.
The only problem is with just the saddle itself,
that they roll on it,
then they roll on your nine hundred dollar saddle,
or thousand dollar.
There, look see the head, see the head, see the head.
Nose starting to come on the vertical, you see?
The halter's working, not me making it work.
You see that?
So with just the bailing twine, which weights nothing,
is negligible, is there and is just enough to say,
get your head down, get your nose on the vertical.
So my softening techniques is not lateral flexion.
It is not disengaging hind quarters,
it's doing what's natural to the animal.
You ever see an animal go around in circles trying
to get away from somebody?
I ain't seen it!
I ain't seen it. Okay?
Natural horsemanship that's called.
Wrong!
Dr. Miller wrote a book,
and when you get a chance
to study some of Dr. Millers stuff, he's awesome.
But he's says, "Natural horsemanship explained".
and he's got one whole chapter in there about me.
One whole chapter about Dennis Reese
and some of the other guys, you know?
And he's saying,
"Look this is what natural horsemanship looks like.
"This is what it doesn't look like."
He is so frustrated over this lateral flexions,
and peanut rollers and stuff like this.
But like he says, "Steve I'm 87, 88 years old now."
And he says," You just gonna have
"to carry on with everybody else." You know.
But look, look, look.
Are you seeing it?
How soft of a mule am I gettin'?
I'm not up there doing it, the halter is doing the job.
The back end's going to get up underneath.
He's gonna be pushing off his hind quarters.
He's gonna round out his back.
All from the nose and the halter.
Softness, softness, softness.
The softness is there.
We just have to communicate how to get it out.
And you see all these big honking bits
and stuff these guys have gotten?
This one's gonna do it and this one's gonna do it, you know.
But I like this a couple times, he's kinda come into me
to kinda say,
can you help me through things.
You know. (kissing calls)
Come on move.
(kissing calls)
Right ear on me, right brain thinking.
You're an awful nice mule, you are.
You make me look real good.
(laughter)
Okay, y'all got the idea there, what we're looking for?
If the halter is adjusted correctly,
you're gonna get response.
And if that response comes in,
it's gonna be very respectful towards you,
and that's what you want. Okay?
That halter is your number one tool, number one tool.
Throw all your other nylon halters
and all them other things away.
Just adjust one up, using your trailer.
People say, Oh, I don't want to put it in a trailer
cause they might hurt 'em."
Well, I tell you what,
you put the halter on,
they'll quit dinking around back there.
All right?
I've seen just as many animals get stuck
on the ground in a nylon halter,
where I had to cut the halter and stuff off of them,
if they didn't get themselves hurt.
With this rope halter, they respect it.
Put them on a hitching post, let them stand there.
They go to pawing and stuff, they'll get over it.
I like you, you're a nice animal.
You make me look good.
Does that make sense to y'all?
Does it? You see how simple it is?
Okay, so we're gonna hang this up someplace,
and say, never again.
You know, feel the weight of this,
then feel the weight of these two strings.
I bet you all can feel the difference in it.
And I've already showed you what at throat latch looks like
and what is does, you know.
So did you see how these little things like this,
will make such a difference in your mules.
Cause you see you putting them tools on 'em is uncomfortable
and their thinking, why in the world should I trust you.
Pretty soon they start saying, oh,
now I'm gonna be comfortable. You know.
It's a lot nicer, things are a lot easier, you know.
- [Woman] So, by doing all this foundation with the halter.
So when you do put the bridle on them, all that going to
help you have control?
- [Steve] Yes.
- [Woman] Because that's now,
that I'm putting it all together.
She's strong and so when she's riding her, she,
you know, she can go.
- [Steve] There you are.
- [Woman] And it's, that's the part that scares me as a mom.
- [Instructor] Absolutely.
- [Woman] You know?
- [Steve] I agree with you Misty.
Sure, Oh you bet.
You know, I know, I hear you, and you're exactly right.
But see here's the problem.
Horse trainers tend to bluff one through, push one through,
make it get done in thirty days, sixty days,
something like this.
And one of the things Dr. Miller says, he says,
"Horse trainers, you know, tend to push one through,
bluff one through", you know.
Push 'em, push 'em, push 'em.
Mule won't allow that.
They won't allow themselves to get buggered.
That donkey side comes out and says, whoa, just a minute.
But you see what happens when I got on to her
and dinked around with this mule,
he all worried.
Same thing with the other one, he got all worried.
But I took my time
and I showed him every move was a picture and he goes,
oh, I got it, got it, got it, got it, got it, got it.
Next time I need to go fast,
he can trust me!
You know. I knew, so yeah, yes ma'am.
You see that's throat latch, okay?
That, you, that'd be like turning around
a freight train, you know.
- [Woman] Yeah.
- [Steve] But when I change it
and I change her bridle and stuff,
the end result makes all the difference in the world.
I'm not up there touching this animal.
The halter is doing the job.
Even with just bailing twine, you know.
And sometimes with some animals, this is too heavy.
I'll just put one strand on 'em,
because they immediately start looking for
to getting away from their nose,
they're so soft.
Especially colts who haven't been messed with,
aw man, they go so fast.
But the ones who have been messed with,
you gotta get through the junk, you know.
So no lateral flexions, okay?
You can do 'em at home, don't do 'em here.
- [Woman] How often do you do this then?
Just until they walk around once?
You do it.
- [Steve] Okay, threes.
- [Woman] You do it three times?
- [Steve] Three times, okay.
When I start seeing my mule frame himself up,
like right there, I quit him.
Okay. You watched how much he moved around.
Okay, now, here's my gate.
I have him go around and he comes around
and I see about half of the circle.
He's doing good comes around to the gate.
I watch him again, he comes around.
He's all framed up three quarters of the way.
Now I come around the gate,
now he comes around the whole round pen framed up,
nose vertical.
Framed up, you know, you hear, framed up.
Hip with her head, framed up.
Comes around here one time, comes around again two times,
comes around again three times, framed up.
Go back the other way, clockwise,
counterclockwise, three times.
You'll see a difference with that brain compared
to the other brain, okay.
Now the next time you bring it in,
this mule is looking to get out of here.
So as soon as he starts dropping his head and getting soft,
six times by here, I'm done.
Nine, 12, you got the idea.
All right.
But again, what did I do in the very beginning?
I just put him in here and let him walk around,
let him think about it,
let him start feeling that pressure.
And then pretty soon, he'd come over here
and just kinda stopped.
I could see he was dropping his head.
Okay now it's time to move him.
Course I would have normally moved him three times,
but I wanted you all to see.
I didn't take very long. Makes sense?
- [Woman] Suppose he didn't, suppose he fought it, he,
you know, just wasn't, would you.
- [Steve] He stays in here until he does.
- [Woman] Okay. Would you make any adjustments
to the way you set up the halter
and the surcingle ,and the side rein?
- [Steve] Pretty much the way I got it now.
Notice, there's no pressure, how loose they are.
Okay. See how loose they are?
Don't make them tight.
- [Woman] You wouldn't make 'em any tighter.
- [Steve] No, you make 'em tighter,
you're gonna make 'em brace.
See this way here, the halter works,
halters doing the job.
- [Man] (mumbles)
- [Steve] Yeah. Little booger snuck up behind me
and nudged me.
Did you see that?
He kinda found out that didn't feel too good
when he'd done that.
- [Woman] Yeah! Right.
And you would always use something that's not stretchy.
- [Steve] Oh yeah, nothing stretchy.
I don't want to pull on him.
Okay, I don't want to pull.
Even if I do this, it's still pulling.
If I bump him, its not pulling.
Any time you do this, its pulling.
Even with a string.
So, bump him, that's what does it.
That's what fixes it.
A surcingle folks. You know.
This is a wonderful tool.
Even my wife's mule, even trained mules
that I've had in the past.
Once, twice a week, sometimes even more,
I'd turn 'em loose out in the round pen,
and then I'd do this to 'em.
I let them frame themselves up.
Its a tune up, you know.
Do I know how to get in a saddle and frame them up, yeah.
Okay, but maybe my next school person that I have come
into school, they don't know how to do it.
You know.
So this way here, I keep my mule tuned,
and I don't have to be on their back to tune.
All right, make sense.
- [Woman] Do you ever you ever use any crupers?
Cruppers, however you wanna pronounce it. No?
Okay, nevermind. Your students answered it for me.
- [Steve] Yeah. Okay, here's the deal. Tail crupper.
Everybody understands a tail crupper, right.
Last year I was amazed.
Three people called me and said,
"I'm gonna get your saddle,
"but does it have a place for a tail crupper ring?"
I say no. They say, "Well we want you
to put a tail crupper ring on it."
I said no this is my saddle.
I designed it this way.
But why don't you like a tail crupper ring?
I said because number one,
the saddle moves 2.5 inches forward.
Number two, you got good chance of breaking the mule's back.
One guy say "Son, I've been doing this
"for thirty-some years.
"I've never broke the back one."
I had another lady tell me the same thing.
"I've been riding all my life with a tail crupper."
Had a young. The third one said,
"I'm just getting stared and I wanna use the tail crupper."
And I went through the whole mess with them.
Understand a tail crupper is only on bone.
It's not on muscle mass, all right.
Now I'll talk about breeds and stuff later.
Long story short,
all of them people within a month,
called me and said they had
to put their mules down
cause they had broken backs,
because of the tail.
The crupper broke the tail.
One guys said I loosened it up,
because it was rubbing the underside of his mule.
He loosened it up, so now a tail was sticking up,
and it just snapped.
And he said, "I heard it snap."
And every one of them said, I could feel the back end
of the animal just drop,
and literally scooting, like this.
That had to be horrible. Had to be horrible.
And when I talk about breechings and adjustments,
you'll see why I use a breeching.
Cause you see the breeching
is not gonna stay in one place all the time.
(banjo music)

- [Steve] All right, so now I let her go.

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crupper::noun | Spocien Dictionary

crupper

noun

/'krəpər/

a strap from the back of a saddle passing under the horse's tail; prevents saddle from slipping forward

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Type of	strap

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crupper

During performances, the fully trained stallions wear a traditional gold-plated breastplate and crupper, called a Goldzeug.

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How to pronounce crupper in English?

crupper::noun | Spocien Dictionary

abandonment

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