At 20:02:20 on 30.06.11, jump123 wrote:
Join up, does anoyone know how you can teach someone join up? need help to help some people at my yard who ar very interested but not sure how i should teach it to him. please help? thanks

At 21:16:35 on 13.07.11, RearinOnlyLosesOwner wrote:
he should send his horse away from him, keep his horse moving and changing direction on demand. Signs the horse is becoming submissive are that it lowers its head and starts chewing and spitting up, that is when you should let the horse approach you, let it wander round at your shoulder changing direction and pace constantly,if it loses interets and stops and wanders off try again. It worked with me and my horse. It can take some time though.

At 20:31:17 on 14.07.11, jump123 wrote:
thanks though yeh i can and have done join up with different horses and my own. but there is this kid at my yard who saw me doing join up once with my horse and said that could i teach him how to do join up with his pony. thiough i was wondereing the best way how to teach a child how to do join up.

At 07:29:35 on 15.07.11, bazz94 wrote:
Get the child to join in with you on you're own horse as you already know how your horse communicates to you with Join-Up, even though it has the same reaction to every other horse, each horse still does it slightly different. So bring the child in to the round yard with you and get both of you to do it but mainly allowing the child to do most of it, just them what to do and then if you feel they're capable they could try on their pony, if you feel you should be in the round yard with him/ her you can do so. Good luck, have fun!!! Make it into a game if the child seems a little unsure etc. they'll relax= the pony will relax= proper join up

At 07:30:17 on 15.07.11, bazz94 wrote:
*just tell/ show them what....

At 19:32:17 on 15.07.11, jump123 wrote:
i could try that thanks. see my horse is the youngest but best behaved haha and we dont have a round pen we just make do with the filed we have and cut parts of if we can so it may be more difficult. thanks ill try that

At 15:34:07 on 14.02.12, amylouise95 wrote:
I know it's not exactly the same as join up but when I used to lunge my horse, I wasn't aiming to do join up I was just exercising her but I knew what join up was. I'd unclip her when I'd finished and let her have some freedom for a bit or whatever but whenever I did this she just turned and followed me straight away, at first I thought she was just following me to the gate to let her out so I walked all around the arena and she followed me, she sometimes does it when I get off after riding her too. is this right? Is it good? If it is shouildn't it make her listen to me more when I ride? She's quite difficult to get to listen to me when I ride, then again that's probably just me not giving the correct aids.. :L

At 09:30:04 on 09.03.12, bazz94 wrote:
amy, join- up definitely helps your horse to listen to you, but it also should be something that helps you listen to your horse. It's a two way street, it's excellent she follows you even without chasing her away!! :D but its not something that will make everything all better, in and out of the saddle, its rather the base, the starting line. Watch her body language as you ride her, look at her ears, head, mouth, back, tail, legs. Notice what she's doing, how she reacts to your every movement. Horses are ALWAYS listening, its whether you're a) asking directly and b) if you're listening to her. Such as the well known quote by Pat Parelli 'If your horse says 'no' you're either asking the wrong question or asking the question wrong'