Had to respond immediately in defence of long videos, they are excellent. Too many quick fixes in the world and anyone who really wants to understand how to get the best out of their horse will totally appreciate the thorough, honest, nothing hidden teaching given to us by Steve. For me they could go on for another few hours! 😃 Thank you Steve and family x
I love the long videos! I don't have horses anymore but I watch them while doing my sewing. I love that they are real-time, slow-paced, and full of funny conversations.
Your videos are fascinating! Honestly, I wish they could be longer! Your understanding of their thought process is amazing. Your patience should be a lesson for us all. Thank you and don’t give one thought for the length of the videos. I love to watch the horses progress. Anyone wanting a shorter video can fast forward. Thank you.
I have begun this program with my mini and the difference in her is remarkable. They are so smart and she knows exactly what I’m trying to get across to her. It’s disrespectful to a horse to not treat them properly and with quality like you adroitly say time and time again. She appreciates my efforts and tests me now and again. What a great time we have together. Thanks Steve and Tanya.
Thank you so much Steve, I appreciate the 'long' videos, it shows more info and techniques and you get the real REAL picture. Greetings from Lamberts Bay in South Africa. Keep well. You are great!
I just recently discovered your channel and I love EVERY minute of your videos! And your explanations before, during and between the clips are so helpful to understand the background what your intentions of the training are (next to free English lessons and a bit of sightseeing! 😉) 😊👍🏻
It dos'nt matter how long the video is as long as it shows all that needs to be seen, i know you have done this for so long now you know exactly what needs to be shown to people who have these problems.Your videos are fantastic learning,don't change anything, people will always find somehing to winge about. Keep up the good work .
Thank you for all your videos. I never find it too long as it takes time to show and learn. We need to see the whole process to really understand anyway. Thank you for your patience and sharing. 🙏
I love long videos when they are as absorbing as yours. Each horse is different, even though the methods may be more or less the same. Totally fascinating. I am shortly going to have worked my way through all of your videos. You can't make them fast enough for me.
Small ponies are lovable but are usually naughty because they are oftem spoilt! People often understand their strength!I agree with your stance on handfeeding too Steve!
BY FAR THE BEST VIDEOS I HAVE EVER WATCHED ABOUT YOUR SERVICES!! YOUR AMAZING AT ALL YOU DO WITH THEM AND THE KNOWLEDGE IS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!! THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TIME YOU GIVE HELPING EVERYONE. ASWELL AS THE TEACHING YOU HAVE PLACED OUT HERE FOR EVERYONE !! 💜 FREE AT THAT👍 I DONT EVEN OWN A HORSE BUT I WILL CONTINUE TO BINGE WATCH EVERY VIDEO YOU CREATED AND CONTINUE TO POST!!
Thankyou Steve, Horses are an outdoors activity and spend most of their time outdoors in our Great British weather so I don’t know why some people expect it to be like the Costa Del Sol with no wind or rain !! Your videos are brilliant. ✨✨
Hi Guys please don’t take any notice of people complaining about video length. I love your videos and as a trainer in Australia I completely understand the amount of time it takes and in some cases there might even be a follow up required. Congratulations on your excellent work and the massive amount of effort you put into your work it is greatly appreciated. 👏👏🤩🤩🇦🇺🇦🇺🐴🐴
I think the videos are fine. You are demonstrating and teaching and it takes time. Thanks for sharing your videos. Just remind people that they don't have to a watch it all at once! :-)
I’m watching your backlog having watched everything from 9 months ago hahahaha, I’m so glad you’ve stopped worrying about how long your videos are because I feel like now you include everything not just the main points we get to see HOW you reached that place with the horse or pony! Much love from Australia 🇦🇺 Steve, Tanya & Charlotte, Dan XoXo
Dont shorten your videos AT ALL, PLEASE!! Absolutely agree with what you say - if the shoe doesnt fit. Cant get enough really! So much to learn from you, Steve. Thank you.
Steve I didn’t like long videos. BUT… I love your ones. Im happy to sit and watch your really long videos and them watch another one straight away . Keep the format the same.. Great job!!
I love all your videos, just as they are! I especially enjoy these little ponies, as well as the great big heavy horses. I love to see every horse you go to, and I enjoy the little travelogue bits, your meals and all too. You, Tanya, and the whole family are tops!
No Steve I love your videos , length and all, they can speed it up if the need to or pause it and comeback to it. Please we need to train our brains ❣️🙏🏻 such a pretty and lovely pony🥰💖🥰❣️
You are terrific. As you said stay as you are. The videos are very much appreciated at over an hour or less ..the training is in the time the time is the lesson. If people don’t like the long ones than they can increase speed. Please do what you are doing 🌷💓
Your videos ROCK!!! Anyone who says differently doesn't even have the "Patience" to learn the lessons thoroughly so perhaps they don't have the patience for training horses and shouldn't be around them.🤨☺
Well that little Shetland soon came around..great job with her…yr videos r fine length wise..I am not a horse person.. rode one in my teens …that’s all…but I enjoy watching you help naughty horses… but u do it in a gentle and caring way…don’t like cruelty to any animals…and u r very knowledgeable with horses….❤️❤️
Really Steve….keep on going and pay no attention to those who are picking on your videos!!….everything you say is needed!!…you give so much to the technical parts of the equinebrain that most people miss with their own animals and they need to get in their head!!
Love the channel. If people think the sessions are too long, they can change the speed (1.5x or 2x) of the video. I do this when I listen to books on tape 😁
If someone says too long too much talking if it’s not for that person, let them jump off a short bridge into a puddle of mud lol! I came here to learn and my love if horses keeps me here! This is amazing content and you both are amazing! Tanya love you girl I love your comments and helping your hubby, we share the same name too! 👍🏽great job!
I had the most beautiful Shetland, so quiet, I loaded to a friend for a 3 y o rider.... After 2 months, they returned her. My daughter noticed first, that upon her return, she learned a new trick - she would TROT BACKWOODS to KICK ANYONE who dared entered her paddock!! I didn't believe the reports, so I went to see it for myself.... Sure enough, she saw me, ducked her head down, and REVERSED towards me, with teeth barred, ears back, whites of eyes showing = she meant business!! I fell to my knees and said "OK, come at me"!! She checked her rear view mirrors, she turned her head in disbelief, she doubled down on her reverse revolve, she checked her reverse mirrors again, she reinforced her intentions with vocal annoyance, she saw I was still on bended knees, she squealed in defiance, reversed up to me, I extended a calm gentle hand, I stroked, scrubbed, and massaged her hind quarters. She spun around, dropped her head into my chest, and told me all her sorrows. We hugged for at least 10 minutes. She sighed a lot. Eventually she groomed my back gently. She knew she was home. WTF did those people DO to such a gentle mare, to make her think she needed to FIGHT FOR HER LIFE!? I hope you realize Steve, it's not ALL about DISOBEDIENCE??
It was not about disobedience with this pony. It was loss of trust.. Not as severe as with your pony, but loss of trust still. She was not "punished in any way.. just goven a chance to see it could be safe to make the choice to trust again. At least that is what he said, and what I saw.
I like you explaining everything that is how I learn and I like all the holidays footage cheers from australia it would be fantastic if you ever come to australia I would come and attend a clinic cheers di kirkwood
l like how you present, do not change, it shows a common gentle way of explaining in depth, this what matters! If one does not like it, they can just edit as they watch. I like when you work with ponies, this little bastastable can be bad dream! I like your video.
Can’t lie. I used to work at a stable with thoroughbred race horses. We had two Shetland ponies Mike and Ike. They were assholes, not because they were assholes but because they were trained to be such. They never behaved because they were tiny and they “don’t hurt anyone”. But they were dangerous.
She may be small but look how long it took to plant those seeds, compared to some of the bigger horses you've dealt with having similar problems. Quite the cute little pony but as cute as they are they can sometime be so stubborn.
Its like the little dogs like chihuahias...they are small enough that ppl laugh or just let them get away with anything and you have an angry, BITING, little alpha dog who has no manners and knows no rules. The dog doesn't want to be alpha but is forced to step in if noone else does. Logical to need the leadership but hard to implement especially once u have the unwanted behavior. Glad we have Steve the seed planter! Also love that whenever he says crop he also says not to hurt them with. Each and every time! It is just an extention of your arm, telling the horse even a two legged human with t-rex arms has control of the full length of a horse. Go-go-gadget arms.
I reckon it’s like dogs... little ones get away with behaviours that could never be tolerated from large ones. This is really good entertainment though 😂
Sometimes you have to show what you need to show.If they don't want to watch the whole thing they can zip through it But I'm definitely learning Thank You.
Love the long videos, too! Ignorant American here - why do some of the horses have their coats shaved except for the legs? I've never trimmed more than the bridle path on mine.
I just purchased a 6 year old miniature stud. He was suppose to be dog gentle and blah, blah blah. He did seem ok when I went to look at him but when I got home with him he has turned into a little monster. He rears up at you bites and will not stand still for grooming. I was thinking about cutting him but don’t know if that will fix him are not. Any advice?
Logic would dictate that while he might get a bit more mellow, bad habits will remain. It his been a while, have you been aboe to better the situation?
The videos are NOT TOO LONG we need to see the proces, if ppl want short video they should get on tiktok to look at funny horses. We're here for the learning.
I am thinking clients hire you to tell them what needs to be done. You communicate with the horse mentally but we humans , just not as smart. Keep on teaching us!!! ( verbally) lol
Your videos would be so interesting, so fascinating! Alas , when I can‘t hear half of what you‘re saying due to video issues, I‘m mostly watching just movements :(
The content deserves/needs the length of time to explain properly. But 30 minute frames will generate more views. Try doing part 1,2,3. I don't think you talk too much. To get the most value, I end up watching first 30in 2 or 3 times so I can see exactly when I need to release. Then move on to the next part and again reviewing as many times as I need b4 moving forward. Thank you
Man I learn so much off of you, but I do skip ahead a lot! I won’t stop learning either way, out of respect for your skills with horses skipping ahead from time to time is not a problem for me. I would never have complain if you didn’t bring it up.
If you could have stopped the vid and explained the effects of disengagement in terms of evolution, and simply said she may have an eye proble and not stop to talk about eye problems.
It is not (normally) about actual eyeproblems.. it is that they have the eyes on the sides, and if they get used to seeing everything in one eye, they do not transfer that learning to the other eye ( if that makes sense), each side has to learn it separately.
Had to respond immediately in defence of long videos, they are excellent. Too many quick fixes in the world and anyone who really wants to understand how to get the best out of their horse will totally appreciate the thorough, honest, nothing hidden teaching given to us by Steve. For me they could go on for another few hours! 😃 Thank you Steve and family x
I love the long videos! I don't have horses anymore but I watch them while doing my sewing. I love that they are real-time, slow-paced, and full of funny conversations.
Your videos are fascinating! Honestly, I wish they could be longer! Your understanding of their thought process is amazing. Your patience should be a lesson for us all. Thank you and don’t give one thought for the length of the videos. I love to watch the horses progress. Anyone wanting a shorter video can fast forward. Thank you.
I have begun this program with my mini and the difference in her is remarkable. They are so smart and she knows exactly what I’m trying to get across to her. It’s disrespectful to a horse to not treat them properly and with quality like you adroitly say time and time again. She appreciates my efforts and tests me now and again. What a great time we have together. Thanks Steve and Tanya.
Absolutely don’t change!! I actually love the long ones, and pick them first, so there u go😊😊
Totally agree!!
Thank you so much Steve, I appreciate the 'long' videos, it shows more info and techniques and you get the real REAL picture. Greetings from Lamberts Bay in South Africa. Keep well. You are great!
It's so cute seeing you work with a little pony.
I just recently discovered your channel and I love EVERY minute of your videos! And your explanations before, during and between the clips are so helpful to understand the background what your intentions of the training are (next to free English lessons and a bit of sightseeing! 😉) 😊👍🏻
Keep your videos just as they are! I love seeing all the things that can happen and how you deal with them!
I love all of you videos and the small stories you tell from how you learned somethings from back in the day 👍❤🥰
It dos'nt matter how long the video is as long as it shows all that needs to be seen, i know you have done this for so long now you know exactly what needs to be shown to people who have these problems.Your videos are fantastic learning,don't change anything, people will always find somehing to winge about. Keep up the good work .
I actually appreciate uncut videos, myself. People need to realize that to do anything right with a horse, you need patience.
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Don’t change a thing, your videos are perfect!! I love your videos, I learn so much
Dang! I think you make the most wonderful videos so if someone complains about anything, just ignore them. We love and appreciate you all so much!
Thank you for all your videos. I never find it too long as it takes time to show and learn. We need to see the whole process to really understand anyway. Thank you for your patience and sharing. 🙏
I love long videos when they are as absorbing as yours. Each horse is different, even though the methods may be more or less the same. Totally fascinating. I am shortly going to have worked my way through all of your videos. You can't make them fast enough for me.
Small ponies are lovable but are usually naughty because they are oftem spoilt! People often understand their strength!I agree with your stance on handfeeding too Steve!
BY FAR THE BEST VIDEOS I HAVE EVER WATCHED ABOUT YOUR SERVICES!! YOUR AMAZING AT ALL YOU DO WITH THEM AND THE KNOWLEDGE IS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!! THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TIME YOU GIVE HELPING EVERYONE. ASWELL AS THE TEACHING YOU HAVE PLACED OUT HERE FOR EVERYONE !! 💜 FREE AT THAT👍 I DONT EVEN OWN A HORSE BUT I WILL CONTINUE TO BINGE WATCH EVERY VIDEO YOU CREATED AND CONTINUE TO POST!!
Really enjoyed this video. So much information! I really appreciate your explanations and video clips to facilitate the subjects. Very enjoyable.
Thankyou Steve, Horses are an outdoors activity and spend most of their time outdoors in our Great British weather so I don’t know why some people expect it to be like the Costa Del Sol with no wind or rain !! Your videos are brilliant. ✨✨
Love the long videos, please don't change!
Hi Guys please don’t take any notice of people complaining about video length. I love your videos and as a trainer in Australia I completely understand the amount of time it takes and in some cases there might even be a follow up required. Congratulations on your excellent work and the massive amount of effort you put into your work it is greatly appreciated. 👏👏🤩🤩🇦🇺🇦🇺🐴🐴
We love your videos!! You have really helped me get back to the basics. I've had horses 40 years. We love the explanation. Simple and gentle
Great video Steve. You are so kind and gentle,no wonder they respond so quickly. Shes a little beauty.
I think the videos are fine. You are demonstrating and teaching and it takes time. Thanks for sharing your videos. Just remind people that they don't have to a watch it all at once! :-)
Charlotte is right. Long videos are just right for all of us wanting to learn. IF only all horse teachers were as deft at explaining what they do!
I’m watching your backlog having watched everything from 9 months ago hahahaha, I’m so glad you’ve stopped worrying about how long your videos are because I feel like now you include everything not just the main points we get to see HOW you reached that place with the horse or pony! Much love from Australia 🇦🇺 Steve, Tanya & Charlotte, Dan XoXo
Dont shorten your videos AT ALL, PLEASE!! Absolutely agree with what you say - if the shoe doesnt fit. Cant get enough really! So much to learn from you, Steve. Thank you.
Steve I didn’t like long videos.
BUT… I love your ones. Im happy to sit and watch your really long videos and them watch another one straight away . Keep the format the same..
Great job!!
I love all your videos, just as they are! I especially enjoy these little ponies, as well as the great big heavy horses. I love to see every horse you go to, and I enjoy the little travelogue bits, your meals and all too. You, Tanya, and the whole family are tops!
I think the best part about your training methods is your happy go lucky attitude.
No Steve I love your videos , length and all, they can speed it up if the need to or pause it and comeback to it. Please we need to train our brains ❣️🙏🏻 such a pretty and lovely pony🥰💖🥰❣️
@Fludrby West, 👏well put We humans need to train our brains, as much as training the brains of the horse.
Stay doing things as you are doing until now. Watching from Germany and love all of your videos. Thanks.
The videos are not too long. They are a real delight.
Your videos are not too long and your teaching is the point of what you are doing. Thank you for your excellent vidoes.
You are terrific. As you said stay as you are. The videos are very much appreciated at over an hour or less ..the training is in the time the time is the lesson. If people don’t like the long ones than they can increase speed. Please do what you are doing 🌷💓
Lovely little training version… big size, medium, or tiny size, all of them are responding similarly because they are all Equis! Thank you Team Steve.
Your videos ROCK!!! Anyone who says differently doesn't even have the "Patience" to learn the lessons thoroughly so perhaps they don't have the patience for training horses and shouldn't be around them.🤨☺
Well that little Shetland soon came around..great job with her…yr videos r fine length wise..I am not a horse person.. rode one in my teens …that’s all…but I enjoy watching you help naughty horses… but u do it in a gentle and caring way…don’t like cruelty to any animals…and u r very knowledgeable with horses….❤️❤️
I watch your videos to learn. I learn from what you say as well as what you do. Please do keep talking!
Really Steve….keep on going and pay no attention to those who are picking on your videos!!….everything you say is needed!!…you give so much to the technical parts of the equinebrain that most people miss with their own animals and they need to get in their head!!
Long videos = great!
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Actor, Bing Crosby
Love the channel. If people think the sessions are too long, they can change the speed (1.5x or 2x) of the video. I do this when I listen to books on tape 😁
Lol so you like your books on tape read by chipmunks...nice.
Your videos are not too long. They are filled with great information.
If someone says too long too much talking if it’s not for that person, let them jump off a short bridge into a puddle of mud lol! I came here to learn and my love if horses keeps me here! This is amazing content and you both are amazing! Tanya love you girl I love your comments and helping your hubby, we share the same name too! 👍🏽great job!
Fantastic video I'm learning all the time you're great x
Windblocker is only £4- 6 which would help the noise from the wind on your phone mic.😌
I had the most beautiful Shetland, so quiet, I loaded to a friend for a 3 y o rider....
After 2 months, they returned her.
My daughter noticed first, that upon her return, she learned a new trick - she would TROT BACKWOODS to KICK ANYONE who dared entered her paddock!!
I didn't believe the reports, so I went to see it for myself....
Sure enough, she saw me, ducked her head down, and REVERSED towards me, with teeth barred, ears back, whites of eyes showing = she meant business!!
I fell to my knees and said "OK, come at me"!!
She checked her rear view mirrors, she turned her head in disbelief, she doubled down on her reverse revolve, she checked her reverse mirrors again, she reinforced her intentions with vocal annoyance, she saw I was still on bended knees, she squealed in defiance, reversed up to me, I extended a calm gentle hand, I stroked, scrubbed, and massaged her hind quarters.
She spun around, dropped her head into my chest, and told me all her sorrows.
We hugged for at least 10 minutes.
She sighed a lot.
Eventually she groomed my back gently.
She knew she was home.
WTF did those people DO to such a gentle mare, to make her think she needed to FIGHT FOR HER LIFE!?
I hope you realize Steve, it's not ALL about DISOBEDIENCE??
It was not about disobedience with this pony. It was loss of trust.. Not as severe as with your pony, but loss of trust still. She was not "punished in any way.. just goven a chance to see it could be safe to make the choice to trust again. At least that is what he said, and what I saw.
I like you explaining everything that is how I learn and I like all the holidays footage cheers from australia it would be fantastic if you ever come to australia I would come and attend a clinic cheers di kirkwood
l like how you present, do not change, it shows a common gentle way of explaining in depth, this what matters! If one does not like it, they can just edit as they watch. I like when you work with ponies, this little bastastable can be bad dream! I like your video.
Please don't make your videos any shorter, they are fantastic. I'm learning so much.
Can’t lie. I used to work at a stable with thoroughbred race horses. We had two Shetland ponies Mike and Ike. They were assholes, not because they were assholes but because they were trained to be such. They never behaved because they were tiny and they “don’t hurt anyone”. But they were dangerous.
Late to the party ( I'm a new sub) but I ❤ the long videos! The longer the better. Nothing needs to change!
She may be small but look how long it took to plant those seeds, compared to some of the bigger horses you've dealt with having similar problems.
Quite the cute little pony but as cute as they are they can sometime be so stubborn.
I want to see all of your hard work and I like to hear what you have to say.
Learning takes time and cannot be short changed. People with time limitations should watch it in short segments. That's what I do.
Longer is more in depth, your brilliant 👏
Its like the little dogs like chihuahias...they are small enough that ppl laugh or just let them get away with anything and you have an angry, BITING, little alpha dog who has no manners and knows no rules. The dog doesn't want to be alpha but is forced to step in if noone else does.
Logical to need the leadership but hard to implement especially once u have the unwanted behavior. Glad we have Steve the seed planter!
Also love that whenever he says crop he also says not to hurt them with. Each and every time! It is just an extention of your arm, telling the horse even a two legged human with t-rex arms has control of the full length of a horse. Go-go-gadget arms.
Not too long learning love as a trainer to see each part.
I enjoy the longer videos. It's just between wind noise and you not being miked - it can be hard to receive the info comfortably.
I agree, the wind noise and I tend to disengage. LOL
Keep going as long as it takes
I reckon it’s like dogs... little ones get away with behaviours that could never be tolerated from large ones.
This is really good entertainment though 😂
Sometimes you have to show what you need to show.If they don't want to watch the whole thing they can zip through it
But I'm definitely learning Thank You.
Forget these clowns you give as much 8nfo as you like some of us want to learn so thanks
Really good.
Love the long videos, too! Ignorant American here - why do some of the horses have their coats shaved except for the legs? I've never trimmed more than the bridle path on mine.
When my 8 yo old son took lessons a Shetland pony bucked him off. They can be quick?, can' t they?
Not too long. Keep up the great job.
A shotgun mic with a wind screen would up the audio quality of your field work clips. There’s a wide variety of options.
A Thewell pony!!!!
I don't think you talk too much. What you say is very interesting~!!
I just purchased a 6 year old miniature stud. He was suppose to be dog gentle and blah, blah blah. He did seem ok when I went to look at him but when I got home with him he has turned into a little monster. He rears up at you bites and will not stand still for grooming. I was thinking about cutting him but don’t know if that will fix him are not. Any advice?
Logic would dictate that while he might get a bit more mellow, bad habits will remain. It his been a while, have you been aboe to better the situation?
I like your explanation of the things you're doing. All they have to do is move the video past your teachings! I like to hear you talk. lol
i like the long videos much better.
Shetlands are a working horse and not a stuffed animal. Cute is fine, but the still need training and not babying. Good work here.
The videos are NOT TOO LONG we need to see the proces, if ppl want short video they should get on tiktok to look at funny horses. We're here for the learning.
They make equipment to eliminate the wind noise.
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Please leave all the content in the videos! I learn by what you don't do as well as what you are doing. hope that made sense. lol
Do you have to take tiny steps?🚶♀️
I am thinking clients hire you to tell them what needs to be done. You communicate with the horse mentally but we humans , just not as smart. Keep on teaching us!!! ( verbally) lol
We like you talking
I love your videos just as they are, just wish you had better audio sometimes cannot hear what your saying.
Your videos would be so interesting, so fascinating! Alas , when I can‘t hear half of what you‘re saying due to video issues, I‘m mostly watching just movements :(
Idiots.... You can't make the videos any shorter. Training like this, "with quality", takes time. Keep up the good work.
Sydney Australia
The content deserves/needs the length of time to explain properly. But 30 minute frames will generate more views. Try doing part 1,2,3. I don't think you talk too much. To get the most value, I end up watching first 30in 2 or 3 times so I can see exactly when I need to release. Then move on to the next part
and again reviewing as many times as I need b4 moving forward. Thank you
Man I learn so much off of you, but I do skip ahead a lot! I won’t stop learning either way, out of respect for your skills with horses skipping ahead from time to time is not a problem for me. I would never have complain if you didn’t bring it up.
Keep talking. We want to see your face.🙂
Not too long
If you could have stopped the vid and explained the effects of disengagement in terms of evolution, and simply said she may have an eye proble and not stop to talk about eye problems.
It is not (normally) about actual eyeproblems.. it is that they have the eyes on the sides, and if they get used to seeing everything in one eye, they do not transfer that learning to the other eye ( if that makes sense), each side has to learn it separately.
I dont think your videos are long but camera person need to be quiet over talk s don't need to hearths comments sorry