Body Language-Imprint Training

[Persianhorse]

Merry Christmas to you all and your loved ones you all are very intelligent and helpful and I have a great respect for you all I have a great respect for the IHDG and its Site Merry Christmas to them too.
For the purposes and needs of the human like War,Hunting,Dressage,Polo(our national game),Jumping,Walking,Running and all you can think of you need Imprint Training for example you need to bring a horse to collection by Imprinting it is very easy and powerful horse for any purposes of riding without collection legs under and movement to all direction and legs the only power source and hands only for changing the direction.
For all those with Imprinting as a tool you are much ahead of other es.

[kas]

I am not sure if what you mean by imprint training is the same as what we understand from it here. Please could you tell us what the process of imprint training is in your view?
Collected horses needing "hands only for changing direction" is a great aim (although I'd question needing hands to change direction, what about focus and balance?). I'm not sure how foal imprinting is going to give you much of a head start on those particular things though, which is why it would be good if you could fill out with more actual detail and maybe your experiences.
I'll put my cards on the table here, I can't stand polo. Watching professional polo players ride put me off for life. If they would go out and do it riding in a Dr Cook's bridle, without all the gadgets hanging off the horses I might look again.

[Persianhorse]

I wish you all a very happy new year.
In most of the posts I read in this site there are many problems which can be resolved with Imprint Training I will try my best to discuss the Imprint Training of horse to over come these problems.
It is very important for riders to know some of the horse body language also because we can know thing before they happen and therefore we would be able to stop them before happening especialy the bad ones.
I have problem with posting messages in this site but I am trying my best to resolve it I hope.

[Persianhorse]

In many species the imprinting period is delayed because at birth the young are neurologically and physically immature in human is the same.
Thus,dogs are born deaf,blind,and helpless,as are the young cats,birds,bears,and many other animals.In puppies,the socialization period extends from the sixth to the fourteenth week,with the seventh to the twelfth weeks being the most crucial.
Other species in order to survive in the wild must be able to detect danger and respond to it immediately after birth.
These are called precocious species because although newborn and small they are completely developed in many ways.
They can see,hear,smell,and run from danger and predator.
The foal must standup to drink the milk from the mare the mare will not go down to give food to her foal (its other way round in human mother gives food to her baby).
A new born foal is like a grownup horse except the physical condition the foal can hear,see,smell like a mature horse for example a 2 years old horse is like 40 years old man its not logical to teach a 40 years old man but its logical to teach a 4 years old baby in horses this must start at the early stages of life.
We have to realize one important thing if horses where to live in wild we did not have to teach or imprint them at all but because we want to keep them close to us in stable or things like that we have to teach them the thing that we want them to learn this is the moment which Imprinting is needed.
there was a post some days ago about clippers one of the posters was complaining about the horse which dose not like clippers either the vibration or the noise or the cutting of the hair this is normal when the horse is in wild they dont see any clippers but the moment they come to human hands we like to use all sort of things on them the poor horse dose not know all those thing .
The shoeing and the nails and the hammer (hammering the nails into the horse hoof) we have to teach our horses that one day there will be a hammer,nails and hammering into their hoofs so they will be use to it .
Some will say this is very simple but we should know that in many many countrys the poor horse will not expereance the shoeing until he or she is 2 or 3 years old and this is nasty.
When it comes to human purpesses we must teach them at very early stages of life.
In this post I just want to say wild life of a horse is much diffrent to the life of stables.

[kas]

Whoops! Don't know what happened there PersianHorse ;D
What you are describing sounds to be more like what I would call de-sensitising, rather than imprinting. De-sensitising would be about helping horses to get used to the things that scare them and help them to live in our world. You would be working on that from birth and forever.
On here we normally think of imprinting as it is taught by people like Dr Robert Miller. He spends some hours working with new born foals. He holds them in his arms with all their feet off the ground. Puts his fingers in every orifice. Does loads of handling with them. That sounds a little bit different to what you are talking about? I must have a browse on the Net sometime and see if I can find a good description of what Dr Miller does. I have seen Pat Parelli's version, he does a lot less but even that seemed a bit over-intrusive to me.