Buck
[Wind howling]
[Rustic acoustic guitar music]
How you doing there, buddy?
See, that feels good,
doesn't it, huh?
All right, well,
I'm off to the office.
To start off,
are there any of you
that have
any particular problems
you'd like to tell me about?
Don't be bashful.
You're among friends.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Let him be,
'cause he's learning
how to kind of settle in
with you.
A lot of times,
rather than helping people
with horse problems,
I'm helping horses
with people problems.
And for a lot of people,
they want it all to be fuzzy
and warm and cosmic,
but it is no different
with a horse than with a kid.
You can't always be
the kid's best friend.
First you have to be the parent.
A horse like this
isn't any different
than a kid that takes
everybody's milk money
on the way to school,
beats up old people.
Maybe it isn't the kid's fault.
Maybe the parent
ought to be in jail.
Boy, do you feel like a fool
and kind of like a failure.
- You know?
- Aw, it's all right.
People bring a lot of baggage
to the table
when they come to these.
Sometimes they're here
for a different reason
other than just
getting to where
they can ride their horse
a little bit better.
If you find a way
it'll make you better.
It'll make you better in areas
that you didn't think
related to horses.
Good job, buddy.
Horses are my life,
and because of some
of the things
I've been through as a kid,
I found some safety
and some companionship
in the horses.
I was just looking for kind of
where I wasn't threatened,
where my life wasn't threatened.
So I have an empathy for horses
that when something
I understand that.
He's a pretty nice horse,
six years old.
Making some good progress,
anyway.
Just a youngster,
just telling him...
I want him to be aware of me.
If I slow down,
I want him to slow down.
See, if I go like this...
I have to practice
my old man walk.
So when I'm really old,
it might take me an hour
to get over there.
He ought to be able
to just go with me,
as slow as I want to go,
and not crowd me.
Might be a little slower
than what he'd like to go.
If I stop, he ought to stop.
If I go back,
he ought to go back,
and I ought not to have
to beg him.
Right now, I walk
to see if he's with me.
When I first seen him,
I thought,
"What kind of voodoo stuff
is this, you know?
How are you getting this done,
you know?"
In five minutes, he's got
like a dog.
He and I go together.
Most of us have
a bag of tricks,
and Buck has an arsenal.
Hey, boys.
Morning.
Hello, how you doing?
- Good.
- Good.
Colt starting
is always interesting
because most of the youngsters
have never been saddled,
never had anyone on their back
or a bit in their mouth.
So there is a lot of fear
in both the horse and the human.
The way I do these colt classes,
you guys,
you'll have to get them exposed
to a lot of things
that seem perfectly normal
to you,
but it doesn't seem normal
to the horse.
You walk up to them smelling
like a Big Mac, you know,
or something...
[horse neighing]
Your diet is gonna make you
smell different to the horse,
and then you're gonna
tell the horse,
"Don't worry.
I want to crawl on you..."
[laughter]
In a similar posture
to how a lion would attack
and kill a horse.
They jump right up
in the middle of them,
and they reach
and as they're biting down
on their spine,
with their claws.
You're asking the horse
to let you be in that posture
and crawl on him.
And then about the time
he says, "All right, maybe,"
and then you say,
"Oh, oh, one more thing.
"I want to strap some hides
of other dead animals around you
before I crawl on you."
You damn sure have to have
some trust.
He's got to believe in you
to let you do that,
and amazingly enough,
they'll let you do it.
Now, the first thing
that I'm gonna show you
Step in here.
Extend the front over like that.
Then he'll go on forward
around me.
This takes some practice
to get good at.
to move.
It's a real trust thing
between the two of you.
What's your name, dear?
Martha?
Okay, Martha, you want to go
the other way.
You got your horse
leading by good,
just the wrong direction.
That's all right.
Tap her.
Don't be afraid of tapping her
with that flag.
You aren't gonna hurt her.
It would be like you
getting spanked with a sock.
There, yeah.
Dave, lead with the right hand.
Yeah, it's in your left hand.
The other left.
Walk to the hip.
No, walk to the hip.
You're at the head.
That's the eating end.
This is always a hard one
for folks.
[Horse neighs]
Pam, that walking on you.
Now, your horse
is kind of naughty.
You guys make a big old circle
around me.
This horse,
it knows to get away,
'cause she's pretty fearful.
No, you won't get away.
She said, "I thought I had
the angle on you there."
See that head slinging
to the outside?
That's unacceptable.
But she doesn't know
the difference.
She said,
"Well, up to this point,
I've had some pretty damn
good luck with that technique."
to run me over?
That means she's trying
to protect herself.
But when I get done,
I will not have to close my hand
on the end of this rope.
Now, I'd touch her here
on the neck.
I'd say, "You find out this flag
won't hurt you.
Nobody's here to hurt you."
One of the things
was that you always grow up
or breaking broncos
or something.
There's a whole element
of abuse, really, of, it's...
man is stronger
than this big animal.
We can break them down
almost like Parris Island
and a drill instructor,
for me with Buck
at the whole concept
of starting.
was severe:
Tying horses to posts
with an inner tube tire
so that when the horse
pulled back,
they would slam back
into the post.
It was really brutal,
really, truly brutal.
It was heartbreaking.
I didn't know any different.
I was a child.
I felt very, very bad
for the animals.
So when I met Buck,
I was the instant convert.
You can't be a good guy
when you leave the barn
and a bad guy
when you get to the barn.
And if I treat animals this way,
do I treat people that way too?
We all know the answer to that.
I met Buck probably at
his first clinic that he gave.
If I wasn't at his first clinic,
I was probably at his second.
There was a nice change.
And the first time I saw
was amazing to me.
L... l... it just blew my mind.
It just blew my mind
that it could be done in a way
that the horse would cooperate,
like the people,
and not be scarred up
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