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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
The most humane horse training methods I have seen, 3 April 1997
By A Customer
This book is the end all say all of horse training. Not onlydoes John Lyons take you step by step through the creation of an obedient and willing partner, but he does it with out ever hurting or threatening to hurt the horse. By using John Lyons methods your horse becomes willing and eager to do what you ask of him, not bullied into listening through fear of punishment. I would heartily recomend this book to any horse owner who wants thier horse to be a life partner, and not just a beast of burden bullied into cooperating.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Worth reading but better with the video., 6 May 1998
By A Customer
I have read this book and watched the full set of video's. Unaware, I bought a very spoiled, soured pony for my daughter. I found him to be my biggest challenge because even though he would behave with an adult on him he would turn into a mustang when a child would ride him. That pony ended living on easy street for two years before I came across John Lyons' book and videos. I taught that pony to come, lead, and behave when a child was riding. Not only did John Lyons' methods work to get the type of performance we wanted but they helped us gain the trust and respect of that pony. It is a little hard to put the book to work if you haven't seen the video but I think that is because the methods are very unusual and most trainers put up mental barriers of disbelief. I haven't needed to use many of his ideas yet but as any of you likely realize, sooner or later there will be that one horse that none of the old methods work on and then its nice to have more ideas to try.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
A down to earth, gentle guide to horse training., 5 Sep 1998
By A Customer
Reading this book and watching the videos that go with it is the best way to really understand what John Lyons is all about. If you have ever trained a dog, you understand what conditioned-response is, and he teaches you how to apply the same theory to training horses. John Lyons does not hold himself out as a horse-whisperer guru type trainer, but rather as a guy who has a very logical, conditioned-response method of dealing with horses. I liked the way he explained the techniques and his emphasis on safety for the trainer and the horse. Some things are hard to picture from his explanation in the book, so watching the videos put it all together for me. (An example is the hitting the horse on the leg bit that another reviewer mentioned. If you saw the video and saw what he was doing, you probably would not feel uncomfortable with it.) I have found this book the most novice-friendly book of its type.
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