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How to Make a Bestseller
The process we used to create a non-fiction tech book (Head First Java) that went on to launch a series selling more than 2 million books, and became the longest-running Top 100 tech book on Amazon's history.
This is Episode 2 of my series on "Solve a better problem" (10x Success). Be sure to watch Episode 1 -- the previous video -- BEFORE this one.
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Відео

Create breakthrough solutions, products, ideas: what others overlook
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Kicking off 2024 with the series I've waited 20 years to make. How to solve complex problems using tools most people overlook. In this first episode, we'll look at why so many powerful opportunities are missed, and how to start finding better answers NOW. This tool applies to virtually ALL complex problems, from business and product design, to learning complex movement and cognitive skills. In ...
Training without Training my young horse
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18 months ago I began an experiment, when I got a 3-year old horse, Nimo, an Icelandic gelding that had basic handling but NO movement training. My goal was to see how far we could go WITHOUT any attempt to shape his body parts. No in-hand, and no micro-shaping with R. I wanted to see how much *movement* skill he could develop without ANY "direction" except "It's good to keep track of the perso...
Secret to Collection: a horse's dream
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Collection can be FAR easier than the traditional, classical path. The secret? A hill. This small, artificial (man-made) hill is the best gym I could hope for. EVERYTHING is in here. Strength, suppling, balance, weight shift back, flexion of the hind, using the front legs to push up and back, lifting through the withers... The key? The horse must find it for himself. No shaping, no tapping with...
Building a horse’s superpower
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Stress is not always our enemy. Relaxation is not always our friend. Context matters. The difference between Challenge and Threat is EVERYTHING. Which means autonomy is a requirement. If my horse is in a context where he is NOT allowed to "refuse" a request, then my goal is the lowest possible stress. But in movement training, my horses are ALWAYS in an autonomy context. They always have the ri...
Do Influencers hurt us? (Casey Neistat class project #1)
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It’s time for TRUTH. I’ve been part of this for way too long. This is my Project 1 submission for the Casey Neistat Filmmaking course. Assignment: look around you, pick a spontaneous idea, and film it WITH YOUR PHONE. Yikes. Far far far outside my comfort zone here, but struggle is the only way to learn so... (but I hope you enjoy it... I know some of you will relate.) Music License: MB013WK4W9...
Teaching Pantherwalk
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PantherWalk is one of the most fun and useful exercises for both horse and human. No horse *needs* to do this; no human *needs* to train this. But the benefits and side-effects are powerful, and work with almost ANY horse from the fire-breathing dragon to the "energy saver." ANYBODY can train this. You don't need expert horse skills, just a willingness to explore and have fun. Learn more in the...
Hind-end engagement: the fun way!
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We all want the horse to be lighter on the forehand, take more weight behind, flex/lower the haunches, step more under, and on and on. But most of us were trained in using "driving aids" of whips to "encourage" the horse to use his body differently than he prefers. If we want to stop all the reminders... no more tap-tap-tap with whip or spurs, what CAN we use? Nature :) (This is Part 2 in my “B...
What’s better than whips?
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Do we still need to use whips? Longe whips, dressage whips, riding crops, "carrot sticks”? Yes, it’s hard to stop using - or even simply carrying - whips. But the benefits of giving up whips makes it worth the awkward transition. I had fun filming this with the horses last week :) We can give up the whip WITHOUT abandoning the goal of healthier movement. We just need alternatives... something t...
Straightness Training for Horses: movement science approach
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Is your horse “crooked”? Classical training “straightness” is the opposite of a modern movement science approach. We all share the same goals... but with VERY different ways of getting there. This video shows a fun, simple way to help the horse find All The Movements in an authentic way, without ANY struggle to “get that one hind to step under!” or to bend the horse that resists. Thanks to Dali...
Reacting to new FEI video #wedontplay (FEI, YOU’RE WRONG)
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FEI’s new campaign for equestrians in the Tokyo Olympics has more than 8 million views on social media. I have thoughts. This is my reaction. I am certain NOBODY from FEI will ever see this, but I still needed to say it. This video is dedicated to the horses and their playful human sidekicks. For inspiration, PLEASE see the Instagram hashtag #weDOplay Music License from MusicBed SyncID: MB01R5M...
Self-half-halt: teach a horse to re-balance himself (“crunches”)
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The quickest path to true self-carriage is helping the horse find their own balance WITHOUT drive and restrain. Putting the “self” in "self-carriage” empowers the horse, and teaching “crunches” is a fun way to get there. Thousands of people learned from my original e-book (no longer available), but here I want to share some simple tips and tricks to make it easier to move forward in a safe, hap...
Bits or Bitless: Does it matter to the horse?
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Bits or Bitless? Is this really the right question... the right debate, argument, battle to be having? What do the Intrinzen principles tell us about bits vs. bitless? I'll answer that in this video. Something important I left out - and should have included - is the impact of a tight noseband in both bitless and bitted bridles. Even the “wide soft gentle sidepull” I advocate for can still poten...
Happy horses: it’s a choice
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For most of my life, working with horses was an emotional rollercoaster. One day I'm over the moon after an amazing lesson, clinic, or show. The next day... who knows? My happiness with horses was tied to their ”willingness” to be obedient. But I changed. I stopped all struggle with my horses. ALL struggle. How could I possibly expect to be happy with my horses when my horses were NOT happy wit...
Helping horses be brave
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Helping horses be brave
Riding the Autonomous Horse
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Riding the Autonomous Horse
Equestrians with Chronic Illness
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Equestrians with Chronic Illness
Training in the Horse Dojo
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Training in the Horse Dojo
Pain Science for Horse Owners: why I made the new course
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Book Trailer for my “Badass” book
The Rescue Horse
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The Rescue Horse
Saving Draumur
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Saving Draumur
The true Icelandic horse
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The true Icelandic horse
Horses coming to life with Intrinzen
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Horses coming to life with Intrinzen
Horses want you to know they're awesome
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Horses want you to know they're awesome
Draumur: Halt-to-Fancy transition
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Draumur: Halt-to-Fancy transition
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @carlossax2150
    @carlossax2150 15 днів тому

    I love how much info and details you have in your videos. I’ve seen Them multiple times. I start teaching my horse, I come across a problem, I see the video again, and theres the answer I need. 😄

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 15 днів тому

      @@carlossax2150 I’m so grateful you took the time to tell me this 🙏

  • @ty7jacare
    @ty7jacare 20 днів тому

    Very glad I stumbled upon this

  • @marissajonkers3756
    @marissajonkers3756 24 дні тому

    So interesting and insightful. Something I think people might not realise but have been proven in studies with clicker trained dogs, is that the click also becomes a reward. The click causes a release of dopamine so even before a treat is offered the animal already has a pleasant experience 😊

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 22 дні тому

      Absolutely! Dopamine is involved in both movement and motivation above and beyond just the R+ aspect, and I absolutely love it when the horses start to love “the game” itself, for solving puzzles and problems, rather than simply trying to figure out what the human wants them to do.

  • @Rosebud65
    @Rosebud65 Місяць тому

    MY brain has a reduced toolkit. I can’t imagine having the feel or intelligence to figure this out.

  • @infamousElle
    @infamousElle 2 місяці тому

    I have Stage 4 Metastatic cancer and your description of fatigue is so right on! If I clean the stall, I'm sometimes too tired to even go get a barrow of shavings! So I have someone do it for me, and I stopped feeling guilty about it, because now I can do something , anything, everything with my last horse. Horses are magical and healing. Such a great gift to humankind.

  • @barbmccoy8353
    @barbmccoy8353 2 місяці тому

    Despite your 2 chronic illnesses you are absolutely an AMAZING BADASS! And many of us, who may not have chronic illness still feel the same pressure... horse people with families, demanding careers or other obligations, or undiagnosed physical limitations, we can't meet those expectations either. We see all those others who are excelling, or achieving what we also want to achieve, but we have LIMITATIONS. Thank you so much for this video! You are not alone!

  • @barbmccoy8353
    @barbmccoy8353 2 місяці тому

    hahaha!! This is the BEST! I suspected this is how it really is, but, still... Draumur is the cutest and needs his own social media pages! Get on that!!! :)

  • @ekaterini001
    @ekaterini001 2 місяці тому

    🔥🔥🔥

  • @ekaterini001
    @ekaterini001 2 місяці тому

    💕💕💕🔥🔥🔥

  • @brendalg4
    @brendalg4 2 місяці тому

    Found you on Danny Hatcher's video. I have fibromyalgia and others

  • @Kevtron9000
    @Kevtron9000 3 місяці тому

    Fantastic

  • @jess3310
    @jess3310 3 місяці тому

    I'm halfway through this video and I love the idea of a self half halt... I haven't yet seen anything that will actually teach me to teach it to my horse though... backing her up to a wall, hugging her butt and rubbing a pool noodle on her back aren't going to just work by magic. Please make a clearer "how to" video for this.

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 3 місяці тому

      It isn’t magic 😉, but all of these ideas are about how to help the horse find these moments, and then rewarding the horse for doing it. Most horses (not all, ofc) can learn the basics of doing it in just two or three five-minute sessions *if they already understand positive reinforcement.* There IS no one recipe for it… it’s about giving the horse natural reasons to rebalance himself. What’s in this video are just some of the more convenient ways, but there’s no “correct” way except to explore and let the horse figure out what they find fun about rebalancing. The way I mostly teach it today is not in this video because it’s just a side-effect of doing things like unexpected change of direction. But your comment made me realize I should make an updated version 🙏

  • @barbmccoy8353
    @barbmccoy8353 3 місяці тому

    This is fantastic! Would love to see more videos of "bloopers"!!! And Draumur is such a cutie!!

  • @SarahGoggin-fc5ee
    @SarahGoggin-fc5ee 3 місяці тому

    So when a horse walks into water and they paddled at it and stretched their head down while going in - that's pantherwalk?

  • @secretsofproductmanagement
    @secretsofproductmanagement 4 місяці тому

    It is wonderful to see you on here Kathy, and with such a useful (although hardish to apply) idea! As someone else said, 2024 is going to be pretty great if we get Kathy Sierra material. BTW, I recommend your 2012 Business of Software talk constantly (Creating the Minimum Badass User) - so often that I have a keyboard shortcut that types out the URL for me. I call it "the best hour you can spend to learn about product management."

  • @polianathes
    @polianathes 6 місяців тому

    I love your comments: ua-cam.com/video/Pp40KJTNACo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=RaleighLink

  • @yogalikeawoman
    @yogalikeawoman 6 місяців тому

    I’m back and watching your video lesson for the third time. Thank you for presenting the problem of deception! That is exactly what I see in postural Yoga instruction for women. Instructions are based on male form anatomy and alignment. Teachers are deceived into believing that the closer a woman gets to “correct” male alignment, the more she is protected from injuries. On the other hand, the closer a woman is to expressing her authentic female anatomy and alignment in a pose, we are deceived into believe she is heading towards injury. There is a massive offering of continuing education to help teachers learn modifications, variations and adjustments for women so they can follow male alignment correctly. Kathy, I am your badass user. Thank you for this priceless gift that only you can give. It’s already changing how I present my work for my badass users. ❤

  • @inkagnitow5721
    @inkagnitow5721 6 місяців тому

    I actually had similar thoughts before. Imo many horse people are solving the wrong problem by trying to fix their horse when the solution would be to fix their own balance, mindset, etc.

  • @MackCollier
    @MackCollier 6 місяців тому

    Just seeing this video tells me 2024 is going to be alright! Love the idea of the Side FX Principle, think this ties in nicely with the idea of creating benefits for your users/customers and how that creates benefits for your company as a byproduct. Cannot wait to watch more in this series. Have a wonderful new year, my friend!

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 6 місяців тому

      Omg MACK! You just made my whole month by with this 🙏😁. You probably know I’ve taken a ten-year side trip applying all the “passionate users” stuff to horses 💁‍♀️. But I found myself starting to miss the *human* side, and even programming, so I’ve just begun the big shift back toward human stuff. If you are on Instagram, my main account there is @pantherflows and I would so love to catch up with you!!

    • @MackCollier
      @MackCollier 6 місяців тому

      @@KathySierraVideo thank you, Kathy, I just followed you as well. I’ve actually started spending a bit more attention to Instagram, so this is perfect timing. So thrilled to be able to learn from you again, cannot wait for more of your videos. As always, if I can ever help you with ANYTHING, just let me know!

  • @equusintegratus6486
    @equusintegratus6486 6 місяців тому

    YES! Please please PLEASE talk to us about forward flow! I'm in a position now where I not only want/need to make content that's effective when I'm not actually in front of someone, I need to also make it easy for people to track me in person, both in a single training session and over time. Of course I'd like to get more clients, but really I want to do more for the clients I already have so they can be more successful and I can then learn more from them. ;)

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 6 місяців тому

      I’m doing it for sure! Thanks so much 🙏🤸🏼

    • @equusintegratus6486
      @equusintegratus6486 6 місяців тому

      @@KathySierraVideo yay, thank you!!! I'm always so excited to come across content like this, especially from you, because I love your presentation style.

  • @ekaterini001
    @ekaterini001 6 місяців тому

    😂😂😂 What is your problem if they are considered being ponies!? Ponies are more brilliant than most horses. 🌹🌹🌹

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 6 місяців тому

      I agree 😁… but it’s something Icelanders take a little personally 💁‍♀️. In Iceland there is only one horse type, and originally ALL horses were smaller. “Pony” is a label that most people associate with small “kid’s horses”, rather than horses that were ridden by full-grown Vikings in battle armor.

  • @yogalikeawoman
    @yogalikeawoman 6 місяців тому

    UA-cam finally offered up your marvelous video when I search for the third time. Yes please details specific to forward flow.

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 6 місяців тому

      Thanks for trying again! I will absolutely be doing more of those details soon 🙏

  • @andrewedgecombe
    @andrewedgecombe 6 місяців тому

    "...if anyone is interested in hearing about forward flow..." Um... yes please! But this is a really interesting breakdown of the journey to creating the Head First format. And the way that it's being presented absolutely hints at something prior to the creative process that can be proceduralized. As usual, you've got the audience's creative juices flowing!

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 6 місяців тому

      Yay! 🤸🏼 Thanks so much Andrew 🙏. I will do this soon.

  • @r_eflectiveequine
    @r_eflectiveequine 6 місяців тому

    My plan for the book I was talking about last week was to do it in a couple years, after I had more experience training. However, last week the horses I was working withs owner randomly pulled out on me, with no reason or warning. So, instead of looking for another barn (again) I decided to just write the book! This time around, I realized that "write a book" is a non-linear problem, that I was trying to solve in a linear way. This time my goal is not to write a "good book" but to write a story as fast as possible. This way, I can have all of the story, characters, and plot on the page. Then I can go back to add the flowery stuff without losing the story, instead of what I used to do and edit as I go, which made me lose the story and give up. In the end I'm doing the opposite of reducing flips back by trying to make it easier for me to jump around. 😅.

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 6 місяців тому

      Ahhh yes, exactly. It’s a non-linear process to craft a forward-flow experience. We actually use a type of spiral model, revisiting the same topics over and over but with added layers, context, and complexity. We never start with a Table of Contents or outline. We create a mind-map of topics with no hierarchy, THEN start making storyboards (we use a 3-act story structure), then we make more detailed storyboards, and finally we have a ToC as an emergent side-effect. Then we joke that by the time we have the detailed storyboards, the chapters nearly wrote themselves 😁💁‍♀️. It’s not how most people work, but between the two of us, my husband and I have taught, coached, edited several hundred tech authors through this. I did have a few *fiction* authors show up at my in-person workshops, which was surprising, but fun. One was a sci-fi writer I was already a fan of 🫣

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 6 місяців тому

      My only regret was waiting until my 40’s! I only got into this out of desperation, never believing I could actually do it. I suppose it’s the same with the horses… I could have made the shifts I made far earlier, but it was only at rock bottom and Draumur’s life at stake. I’m so impressed these past years now over how many people come to these changes *without* a last-hope motivation. I assumed a dozen years’ ago that nobody would ever do these things UNLESS it was their last option. I was wrong 😁

    • @r_eflectiveequine
      @r_eflectiveequine 6 місяців тому

      @@KathySierraVideo Ohh, so the writing itself flips back instead of the reader needing to do it themselves! That's what I have been working on with the themes I include in the story, making sure they are consistently touched on throughout the story, but gently and not in-your-face/preachy or overly simplistic. I have so much belief in the training stuff, I KNOW that I know what I'm doing at this point (or if I don't I'm confident I can figure it out when it comes up). Its just INCREDIBLY hard to find a place that will let me do that.

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 6 місяців тому

      @@r_eflectiveequine yesssss …. WE do IN the book what “flipping back” was doing for them. We don’t remove the need to revisit something… we bake it in. So one of the biggest answers to this was what we call “overauthor”, ways of, well, repetition without repetition. They get repeated exposures but in ways that don’t make them feel like they’re stuck seeing the same things they already “get.” A lot of forward flow is about simply acknowledging nobody has eidetic memory… we cannot expect that just because we said it once, now they’ve got it. And we do things to remove doubts they might have about whether they are ready to move forward.

  • @andrewedgecombe
    @andrewedgecombe 7 місяців тому

    If anyone else said this my filter of skepticism would have gone up very quickly. But, because it’s Kathy, I know we’re in for something well thought out, research supported, and really special. Very excited for the rest of the series!

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 6 місяців тому

      Thanks soooooo very much Andrew. That means quite a lot to me right now… as I’m likely going to upset a lot of my horse folks who have no interest attest in these topics, but it’s where my own passion is 💁‍♀️🙏

  • @frantinakiekebeld4360
    @frantinakiekebeld4360 7 місяців тому

    Interesting! I’m looking forward to your next video!

  • @r_eflectiveequine
    @r_eflectiveequine 7 місяців тому

    This is kind of where I have been thinking about how I can contribute to the overall acceptance and knowledge about Intrinzen, +R/consent based, and adjacent styles of horse training. As you have said, the 'education' route just isn't really showing high 'user success.' SO MANY advocates are trying to solve the horse world's issues through education only, but I have noticed a lack of what the natural horsemanship people do really well (at least what I know of from that one Mark Rashid book I got for christmas when I was 13) - telling stories and using emotion to get their ideas across and to facilitate learning. I have decided that I want to write creative non-fiction and fiction books about these styles of training, because (evidently from the way that thousands of stories are used every day to explain things to children), humans naturally learn really well from stories. You did this too with the plane example ;). Hopefully, people will read my books for entertainment first and the welcome side effect will be change in the reader's interactions with horses and the world at large. Sneaking these big ideas 'under the radar.'

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 7 місяців тому

      This is music to my ears 🥹, and what I MOST want to hear! Yes, agree… there is a massive gap between “solutions offered” and “user success”, and soooooo many opportunities to solve different problems to help more people who WANT to make changes, actually take the leaps needed.

  • @V4K4R14N
    @V4K4R14N 7 місяців тому

    I've been truly struggling (and that's an understatement) to understand engagement and how to achieve it for a very long time. I can't express how ingenious this is, but also so simple to understand and begin to put into practice. I think this will be a lot of fun for my horse and I. I'm still not sure about a lot of things, especially after I get in the saddle, but this video has left me feeling like I'm actually starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together... even if that's a 2,000 piece puzzle.

  • @V4K4R14N
    @V4K4R14N 7 місяців тому

    I'm so glad there are people like you out here calling this out for what it is. It's why I hate so much of the competitive horse world; they're only valued for what money they make people. Once that's gone, the horse is probably left for dead. They can doll it up with these "heartfelt" images and snippets but people who know better and pay attention, who've truly been around horses, can see how disgusting and insidious these industries are - innumerable deaths and unmeasurable suffering, all for the almighty dollar.

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 7 місяців тому

      It’s extremely painful to see what most mainstream equestrian sports are doing to horses. I was one of those people for many years, so I have some empathy for how hard it is to accept and face the consequences of what horses are being forced to do for human entertainment. For me, the biggest tragedy of all is how unnecessary all the force and pain is… because we DO know alternatives where horses can be given a meaningful choice to participate.

  • @V4K4R14N
    @V4K4R14N 7 місяців тому

    I'm increadibly thankful that your channel was recommended to me. Very interesting stuff here and I plan to watch everything you've posted up to this point and beyond. I'm an avid reader and love the book recommendations as well!

  • @lesleyhiddins2067
    @lesleyhiddins2067 7 місяців тому

    This is what I want with my horses! Have just subscribed to your channel. I want my horses to be with me because they want to not always because they have to. I found you through Emotional Horsemanship. Thank you

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 22 дні тому

      Lockie is amazing ❤. Thank-you for being here! I’ve taken a long break, but I’m restarting my horse videos here very soon 😁

  • @falyoung2784
    @falyoung2784 8 місяців тому

    weren't Icelandic ponies used as war ponies during the Viking age? Yes, I call them ponies - I wanna pony...a WAR pony! Vikingar pony!

    • @ekaterini001
      @ekaterini001 6 місяців тому

      Exactly! "Pony" is a Title! 💕🔥

  • @Dijontoma
    @Dijontoma 9 місяців тому

    What que do you teach the horse for the panther walk before adapting it as an exercise under rider?😊

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 9 місяців тому

      Everyone does it their own way, but I personally use a “lazy” way 😁… 1. I use a verbal cue (“step”) AND 2. I use my little target/pocket pointer AND If I’m planning to ride it, I spend time doing it from the ground with myself in the position I will be in while riding, in my case I keep myself next to the horse just behind the withers. That way, the horse sees my cues with the pointer from the same place he will see them in riding (except on his back my hand will obviously be higher). AND 3. I use environment cues… things I do for a week or two before trying to ride it, where we make a temporary habit of PantherWalk in a specific location. For example, I might put a ground pole down and cue PantherWalk each time we go over the pole (with me on the ground). Very quickly the horse associates that pole in that location with PantherWalk. If all my other cues are too messy / unclear, the environment cue is almost a guarantee. Then later I can transfer that cue to something else in the saddle, and do not need to use the pole (or whatever environment cue I pick).

  • @sofiai8046
    @sofiai8046 9 місяців тому

    hey, nice to see the journey. I have a question. I have a mule and I accidentally started working liberty with her because she was much more relaxed without a line, knowing she could escape at any time. that worked very well. At some point she started to pin back her ears a lot...I can't interpret her very well. From the game face to frustration and boredom, everything is in my head. I often see pin back ears in your videos too. How do you explain that? I have the feeling that my mule is motivated...she could also go into the grass and eat...but she stay with me. the face actually says something different. I asked myself maybe the pressure for the treat is too great and that's why she felt like doing it but not really feeling like it. When I watch her on the paddock, I also can't see realy the difference between her playful expression and her serious attempt to send someone away. I can read the other horses much better then her even if i know her much better. i have massive think overs becouse of that and cant find a result... would be realy thankfull for you guesses about the pint back ears. best wishes anna

  • @Cartloopa
    @Cartloopa 9 місяців тому

    Thank you for this video! Is this a system that you created/started? If not can you tell me who originally came up with this? Thank you !!

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 9 місяців тому

      I came up with this *specific* idea of developing the horse’s ability to resist the weight of the rider, which I loosely called “crunches”. I put out an ebook almost 10 years’ ago on it, though that book is now available only inside a (free) Intrinzen community project. But of course lots of people and methods are around for getting a horse to lift the back, though most involve stimulating the horse from below to evoke either a reflex or a “move away from pressure” response. We don’t care 🤷🏼‍♀️ how it’s achieved; we mostly care that the horse can safely resist the weight of the rider dropping the spine into extension. This particular way I developed is just one possibility 💁‍♀️. There are some forms of classical training that develop a *collection* exercise (example: the School Halt) but these are usually considered extremely advanced, and never intended for horses (or trainers) that are not at an advanced level in both physical ability and skill. Our version of “crunches” (which I just think of as a self-half-halt) is nearly the opposite, in that it is something we do from the beginning, in some form 😁

  • @fitchery9315
    @fitchery9315 10 місяців тому

    Im so glad I've found your channel. Thank you for your work. You are saying so many things I had no words for as someone who worked with green and unstarted horses. I just knew I wanted enthused empowered equines that had oportunities to express themselves and make choices. I cannot wait to go further and read the books you've reccomended 🤯 and I'll be checking out more of Pantherflow 💜

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 10 місяців тому

      So happy to hear this!! Most of my work is on Instagram right now, where I put up stories almost daily, and posts weekly. I’m planning to restart my UA-cam videos in a few weeks, for longer / education videos, but Instagram is where I am active.

  • @karroten
    @karroten 10 місяців тому

    Wondering if you can give advice for playing with a horse that wants to panther walk exuberantly towards me? It’s fun and I haven’t gotten kicked yet, but it’s a bit high on the spectrum of chaos. Creative-minded though I am, I can’t figure out a protected contact option in the spaces I have to work with.

    • @KathySierraVideo
      @KathySierraVideo 10 місяців тому

      Ahhh everyone has their own way, but I’ll tell you what I do personally if I can’t be in protected contact: 1. My horses have learned that if I am not holding a target in my hand, we are NOT in “game on” mode, so there is never a reason to do it toward me if I’m not holding a target, stick, clicker, etc. But some horses take time to figure that out, and so they do a lot of experimenting at first… so that’s why I use other things too… 2. If it’s an issue, I literally will NEVER click/mark for something like this unless I am *beside* the horse, not ever in front of them. My horses might come toward me at speed, but if it’s in PantherWalk I would step to the side of them and keep going from beside them. 3. Maybe too late for you now, 😁but I learned the hard way to never teach or reward a movement until after I already know it’s going to be safe, either protective contact OR (my personal choice) until I know the horse is comfortable with me being beside them and out of range of the front legs. 4. Use objects as targets that the horse learns to move toward instead of toward you. Example, I can point at the mat and have the horse PantherWalk toward the mat, away from me. Overall, I don’t like to spend much time in front of the horse when doing things, so they are maybe not thinking about that as much. I wait until they come up to me, then I immediately move into a position usually behind their shoulder. - Horses are great at probability learning though, so if you just STOP rewarding PantherWalk unless they are beside you, it usually takes very little time for them to stop doing it. Or, you can quickly teach a *different* movement for when they come toward you… something that feels safer (maybe a collected walk?) and make it VERY high reinforced so the horse then offers that when coming toward you. Then transition back to PantherWalk once you are beside them…

    • @karroten
      @karroten 10 місяців тому

      Thanks for providing such a thoughtful and detailed response. I've definitely made some mistakes along the way, but for some reason this horse appears to like me right in front of him. Given his background before I got him as a traumatized sporthorse, and his general presentation as burned out / low energy...I ended up rewarding anything and everything that awakened his love of movement. To be honest, I don't regret this because he went from stuck to vivacious -- but safety is important and probability learning sounds like a good direction for us at this point. Cheers!@@KathySierraVideo

  • @francosarti3062
    @francosarti3062 11 місяців тому

    It is called “passo spagnolo” si c’è 500 years

    • @karroten
      @karroten 10 місяців тому

      Spanish walk is done with the horse's head up higher. This is a variation on it which affords more freedom of expression.

    • @francosarti3062
      @francosarti3062 10 місяців тому

      @@karroten ok, buy to me it’s the same

  • @kleineportugiesin9784
    @kleineportugiesin9784 11 місяців тому

    😃 Das ist wundervoll

  • @matildawendelin5210
    @matildawendelin5210 Рік тому

    Well this is something else! I think I just found my favourite horse training channel!

  • @matildawendelin5210
    @matildawendelin5210 Рік тому

    This video is exactly what I was looking for!

  • @nubius
    @nubius Рік тому

    This is exactly what I needed to see. Thank you.

  • @karolawenzel
    @karolawenzel Рік тому

    WOW!!!😍😲 So amazing! I LOVE Icelandic horse! ❤❤❤

  • @henrikjohansen5954
    @henrikjohansen5954 Рік тому

    I have an Icelandic horse and she is very fast and spirited but also so sweet and beautiful she has so much personality❤️❤️❤️🐴

  • @Sso_gigi_official
    @Sso_gigi_official Рік тому

    I have an Icelandic horse and most of these are true for mine she is very very fast and willing :) (and ofc beautiful)

  • @RaagaA460
    @RaagaA460 Рік тому

    It's really interesting that Bend Branderup teaches a similar moverment. Whereas your point is letting the horse find its movement himself, Bend Branderup teaches it in a very friendy and precise way. Of course I've experimented in both directions, and my pony and me have had a lot of fun. At the moment, however, we've got stuck. My pony doesn't want to bend more than a bit. Of course, I'm very happy that he can lift his body. But is there a way to persuade him into even more bend in the hawks?

  • @aliveandfiddling
    @aliveandfiddling Рік тому

    Thank you so much for this video, these words. Thank you so very much. It means the world to me. Meghan

  • @XXXCYCOBABETHEONEANDONLYXXXx

    what a beautyyyyy