When you address horse behavior issues, it gets easier to learn horse training problem solving.
Let's say your horse bucks.
Now the thing to do is analyze why.
If you think it through, you may figure it out.
But if you decide on a reason and it's not right...
guess what? You're fixing the wrong thing.
And what's bad about that is you could be making things worse.
If I have a horse that bucks, I know there are basically three reasons for it.
One is fear.
Then pain.
The third is that some horses just can't get over having us predators on their backs.
If it's fear, that's easy to figure out.
Look for the fear signs such as a raised head, tensing body, big eyes, skittishness.
Those are dead giveaways.
But what if it's pain? If it's pain causing the bucking but the rider thinks it's a behavior thing and tries to correct the behavior - you're asking for trouble.
You're fixing the wrong thing which cause another thing to go wrong and make the horse even harder to deal with later.
It's like a doctor prescribing Tylenol for a headache when the patient really has a brain tumor.
Ok...
it's not necessarily THAT serious, but it "could" be.
So what am I getting at? Pain.
A sudden misbehavior would make me first look for some kind of pain.
If the horse is in pain, it could manifest in not wanting to be caught, bridled, kicking, and more.
Just think about when you're in pain.
Do you like it when someone messes with you? I don't.
Thus, my behavior is different than when I'm feeling good.
Now the question is this.
How do you know what to look for.
Study it.
Learn about it.
Know the signs.