Horse Join-up?

If you want to work with a horse that is not yours, then you *definitely* need to ask permission. You wouldn't borrow a pencil without permission, nonetheless someone's horse. And there's always the potential for getting hurt (or getting the horse hurt) anytime you do anything with horses, so the owner should be around when you do anything. It doesn't sound like you've done a lot of research, and you need to actually need to know what you're doing before you go out and try it yourself. You need to know *everything* about it before you try it. It's easy to join up with some horses, but others require a lot of time and persistence.

Or, better yet, wait until you have your own horse, and use the methods of someone that didn't use lies in half of his first book to get more attention and sympathy. I would suggest Clinton Anderson.

First, YES always ask for permission when working with ANY horse other than your own.

Usually they start in a round pen with a hourse with a halter, but no saddle or bridle. This is used to gain the horse's trust by "talking" the horses language. The idea is horses are herd animals, they do not like to be alone. So instead of forcing a hourse to do what er want, we get the horse to want to do things for us. This is why you dont use treats, thats just bribing.

Horses don't train themselves to know what you want unless you train the horse to do what you want. You're lunging. Clearly, the horse was trained to stop when asked and stand still. Some people don't want the horse to come into them when stopped. Some do. If you do, then teach him to do so. your idea of join up, isn't really training a horse to join up. It's just seeing if the horse feels like following you. if you really want to do join up for real, this means training, not just leaving things to chance. do the lunge work like you do, then when you stop him, draw him in by slowly taking the slack out of the line til he walks in to you. repeat til he comes in to you when you ask him to stop. practice by giving him a cue instead of taking out the slack all the time. then once he's perfect on the line, then try this without picking up the line and giving him the cue instead. Join up works with all horses, but not everyone does it right. ;-) it's a training method, not an instant thing that just happens.

Supposivly by joining up with the horse you establish that they cna trust you by showing them your there 'leader' like they'd have in the wild. From what I have heard and seen most people join-up in a round pen or other smaller pen and dont saddle up the horse first. I'd suggest asking if its not your horse, but its your choice really.

well i would go to monte roburts website to have it exsplained. you deffinately need to ask permission before performing join-up with anyone elses horse. i do join-up in a round pen. it doesn't really matter if there is a saddle or not. alot of people use join-up to train there horses to saddle. there are different ways to do join-up so go to the website.

I can explain it, but the best thing I can suggest is to get ahold of one of Monty Robert's videos. He's a genious when it comes to horses!!

It is kind of like free lunging but that is about all I know