The wrong way to teach a horse to back up involves taking the rope and pulling on it, because this will cause the horse to turn around and bite. Teach a horse to back away with helpful advice from a reining horse trainer in this video on backing up a horse.
Now our horse has, basically six directions that he can go, left, right, forward, back, up and down. I'm really not going to work on the up and down but I am going to perfect left, right, forward and back. Now, we've gone around in circles, that's basically our forward direction. We've gone forward, left, then I would've gone forward to the right and got some of the energy out. We also need to work on the back up. Now there's a right and a wrong way to teach a horse to back up or to get away from me. Now, one of the ways and this would be the wrong way, is to just take the rope like this, and just start pulling on him. He's going to reach around, he could try to bite me, he could you know, he's just going to get really rude about the whole thing. If I just try to push him backwards or pull him back with my hand. Here's what I'd rather do. I would rather teach him to get away as a result of motion, o.k. Get away from me. Alright, now I can just keep shaking it back off, of that rope like that, o.k. Now I want him to stay there. When I'm shaking him back off that rope and got him to go backwards, he's supposed to stay there. It's my job to go get him, don't ever let your horse come get you, in this case, alright. Because he'll end up chasing you around and that could be dangerous, alright. So I don't draw him to me, I go back up and I get him. Alright, and he stays right there. Then I can rub his head, alright, then we can come up here and do it again. Now I'll bring him with me, alright. I'll do that one more time. Just shake your, just start shaking really slow and then just keep up on the pressure, until he actually gets back, the way you want him to. Use as little as possible but do whatever it takes. There, now I can go get him again.
