Watching your videos: Rick Gore Horsemanship

Question
Hi Rick,
I was watching some of your videos last night and had a question on one of them. It was the one where you were riding Tanner and purposely "setting him up to fail". He had been out to pasture and you hadn't ridden him for awhile. You stated he was fresh and fat after eating pasture grass for a couple of month, and not really listening to you. You purposely didn't lunge or warm him up because you wanted to show what it's like to not properly prepare a horse for riding before you just hop on and go for it. (Buddy was trying to join in the fun too,,,)
I watched where you did alot of stopping and made him turn his head away from the direction of the barn. He also wanted to run from the get go. My question is this: Are there any other things you can do such as side passes, half halts etc in addition to the stopping and backing? Have you found that any of these work? Of course I know you don't normally hop on and go, but when they are fresh like that, they can still be a little energetic even after a pre-ride warm up. Just looking for other things to try should it happen on a trail and surprise me. By the way, I liked the pink hoof pick,,,,

Answer
Any control of movement or preventing movement shows control and dominance. Every time a horse moves when it wants and you did not ask, shows dominance over you, it shows a lack of respect to you as the leader, it is a test to see if you are really in charge.  It is all talking, the horse asks if you are strong and in charge, if you answer by doing nothing or getting mad or over react then the horse sees weakness, if you respond with good smooth solid leadership, direction and control, then you tell the horse you are strong, you are a good leader, you are smarter, you are in control and the horse will accept this and will ask you less and less.  Consistency, timing, feel, release, direction, emotion, anger, fighting, fear all come in to play. The horse will tell you when you do it right.

I like my hoof pick too, I am just too lazy to paint it black. :)

Hope that helps

Rick