RAY HUNT - ponownie

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This one can sure be a hard pill for some to swallow........
"If you get bucked off or kicked or bitten, you obviously did something wrong, and that's just too bad.
The horse, on the other hand, is never, ever wrong." Ray Hunt

Image of Ray is by Mike Thomas - http://www.mikethomashorsemen.com/

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"His dream was to someday see a child working with a horse, mentally and physically attuned to each other. When the child is asked, 

'Where did you learn to work with a horse that way?' the child will answer: 

'Is there any other way?'"

Image is of Ray and Whitney Fenske when she was only 8yrs old.

“'Few of us will ever do anything that will be recognized or remembered by more than a handful of people. We are not great. Greatness comes along so rarely that when we see it, we want to touch it. Ray Hunt allowed us to touch greatness, to be a part of it. He was a truly great horseman, who offered us all a chance to be a part of something great. He was one of the great motivators. Ray believed in you and had the capacity to make you believe in yourself. He believed in the horse and encouraged you to believe.”

 Once you’ve known Ray you will carry him with you forever. You hear his voice, see his face, and long for his approval. You remember his tongue-lashings and lectures. With each success you want Ray to know about it. With each failure you want to apologize for not being right within yourself. Ray refused to accept CAN'T and taught us not to use it as an excuse. His voice is never far away. He taught us that the horse and life are only going to give back what we are willing and capable of putting into them.

Ray Hunt was a legend in his own time. His legacy will live on through his students and all who come after. His dream was to someday see a child working with a horse, mentally and physically attuned to each other. When the child is asked, 'Where did you learn to work with a horse that way?' the child will answer: 'Is there any other way?'” - Carolyn Hunt.

Carolyn's quote is from an article that appeared in The Eclectic Horseman 'Remembering Ray Hunt' written by Heather Smith Thomas - http://www.eclectic-horseman.com/content/view/315/

 Image of Ray is by Ron Volmershausen and was taken in Windsor, NSW, Australia 1995. — z: Carolyn Hunt 

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KILKA MĄDROŚCI: 
Mam nadzieję, że Wam spodobają się tak bardzo, jak mi :)
Miłego czytania :) 

"You get so much feedback from a horse. 

They talk to us all the time. 

They aren't whispering, like The Horse Whisperer.............. they're SCREAMING. 

If we give the horse a break, he'll help us." - Ray Hunt

"These (the horses) are our teachers. I'm not the teacher, they are. Learn from them." - Ray Hunt.

“A lot of times to get a response you might think you have to get him afraid. Don’t get him afraid, I don’t want him to be afraid.
But I want the highest degree of respect.
You don’t get that overnight.
What I give, I will receive.
What I give him, I can take back. I cannot take out of him what I don’t give him. I can’t take out of you what I don’t put in there by teaching you something.
I have to present it in a manner that you can learn it, so I can take it back.
Now how are you going to do this? GET A BIGGER STICK and hope to hell that it works out?
I'm not being rude, I'm just telling it like it is.”- Ray Hunt


"When a horse doesn't do what you tell him, you think you've lost.
It's not about winning or losing.
A horse doesn't even know what that means.
If something goes wrong, you start over.
You have to accept defeat to gain success." - Ray Hunt
...i przy okazji wrzucam ciekawą wizję sukcesu:

“I can’t teach you this..............I can only get you aware of it.” - Ray Hunt

"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?" - Peter Campbell

"I see people doing things today that I did 20 years ago, and it isn't working any better for them today than it did for me then, but they're still doing it.
You can learn something from anyone, even if it's to be sure that's not the way you want to do it." - Ray Hunt

"My goal with the horse is not to beat someone; it's to win within myself, to do the best job I can do and tomorrow try to do better.
You'll be working on yourself to accomplish this, not on your horse.
You will work to recognize how you feel toward your horse and how your horse answers you back; how he understands you, and how he takes it.
There shouldn't be any hassle, there shouldn't be a big flare-up.
Mentally, your horse shouldn't weigh anything." - Ray Hunt, from his book 'Think Harmony with Horses'

"My belief in life is that we can all get along together if we try to understand one another.
You'll meet a lot of people and have a lot of acquaintances, but as far as having friends; they are very rare and very precious.
But every horse you ride can be your friend because you ask this of them. This is real important to me. You can ask the horse to do your thing, but you ASK him, you offer it to him in a good way. You fix it up and let him find it.
You do not MAKE anything happen, no more than you can MAKE a friendship begin." - Ray Hunt

"The horse is doing one of two things; it's doing what it thinks it's supposed to do, or it's doing what it thinks it has to do to survive." — Ray Hunt

"Before the inside of the horse can be right, the inside of the person needs to be right." - Tom Dorrance

“When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it’s a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them.” — Tom Dorrance

 
“Horses are very sensitive animals. They have the sensitivity to be able to feel the weight of a fly. You folks who have been around horses know that because you put flyspray on them in the summer time..........and yet when you ride them, you ride them like they don't have any feeling. You ride them with pulleys and cables, chains, wires, tie-downs and martingales. Why?" - Ray Hunt

"I am finally learning that horses truly prefer HORSEMEN to trainers — and that it is better to be a student of the horse than to master EVERY training technique in the book." - Lynn Reardon

"This isn’t just some commercial thing; I wouldn’t do it.
This is life.
This is reality.
There’s no rulebook on this and it’s damned hard to grasp because it comes from deep down inside.
I’ve been trying my whole life and I’m still working at it.
But when you do get it, pretty soon it starts coming back to you directly from the horse, and from then on it’s a continuous thing.
There’s no end to what you can learn." - Ray Hunt

"You’ve got to be precise. You have to have something in mind before you pick up on those bridle reins.
My legs are as important as my arms and hands, if not more. I have a directing rein and leg and a supporting rein and leg. You always direct, then support. When you go to the left, you should look to the left. If you are going to the right, you should be looking to the right. We need to understand how to fix it up, so the horse can come from the other side and do what we are asking him to do. I first direct the horse, then support." - Ray Hunt

"When the human calls the horse dumb, stupid, stubborn, etc., they are working from where they are, not where the horse is." — Ray Hunt

"The horse is a mirror. It goes deep into the body. When I see your horse I see you too. It shows me everything you are, everything about the horse. I try to face life for what it is. There’s heartache, but it’s a good thing. I’m trying to save the horse’s life and your life too. The human is so good at war. He knows how to fight. But making peace; boy, that’s the hardest thing for a human. But once you start giving, you won’t believe how much you get back." - Ray Hunt.

"You’re not working with just a machine; you’re working with a mind. The horse is a thinking, feeling, decision-making animal and each one has a distinct personality.
But the human always acts superior. The human thinks it's smarter; it always wants to have things its way and right now. It wants to be boss.
If trouble comes up, the human turns it into a contest with the horse. But if you do that, watch out.............you just may lose." - Ray Hunt


"It isn't the horse," Ray says, and pokes himself in the chest. "This one has to make the change." 

"Don’t present things that are too hard to learn, don’t be arrogant. Allow the horse to learn in his own way. This takes discipline and maybe that will be the hardest thing for you. When you’re riding, try to do more by doing less and less. You have to be on the spot every moment because that’s where the horse is. Don’t worry, he’ll teach you if you let him. Fix it up and let it work. Turning loose means that when you reach for him, he softens. That goes for you too. It should be like silk all the way," he says, then turns his horse to go. He pauses. "It’s hard to teach what I’ve been talking about all week because the first thing you need to know is the last thing you’ll learn. But I can tell you this: when you get to square ten, all of square one will be in it." - Ray Hunt.