Horsenalities Bucks

out of Savvy Times magazine issue 21, november 2008 written by Linda Parelli
Right Brain Buck:
fear- and panic related, so it looks frantic. Best solved by driving the horse forward with as much energy as he is putting into the bucking, if not a little more. You redirect the energy by tasking him to accelerate forward. That will stop the bucking better than trying to prevent it, but then you have to figure out what set it off. Right Brain is fear-related, so this often happens with horses who are not confident with the saddle or cinch/girth. Check it out, solve it on the ground and do not get on until your horse consistently proves that he is no longer tense or afraid.
Left Brain Buck:
It´s deliberate and can be playful or punky. Best solved by entertaining it! If you try to stop it, this can become an argument, and this Horsenality will use it to gain the upper hoof. We have a saying called "and then some", which means, "You want to buck? Me too - and then some!" You´ll find that pretty soon your horse figures out that he cannot scare or frustrate you, so he stops using that strategy to dominate the situation. Have fun with it - much better than getting mad at him, don´t you think?
Extrovert Buck:
-high energy, usually way too difficult to ride unless you are a professional bronc rider! You definitely want to deal with this on the ground. Best solved by using the energy rather than trying to block it or stop it. You need to get it out of the horse´s system. Send him over lots of jumps so he can get in the air with a purpose.
Introvert Buck:
-low energy, usually not hard to ride. An introverted horse bucks because he doesn´t want to go forward and you´re trying to make him do it. Usually it´s Left-Brain Introverts that buck like this (the Righ-Brain Introverts freeze before they explode inte a Right Brain Extrovert form of frantic bucking). The solution lies in psychology to get your horse want to go forward rather than making him go when he doesn´t want to.
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Horsenalities and Patterns will help you enormously here.