You better damn well believe I'm going to beat my horse if he EVER pulls stunts like rearing or striking or charging or anything like that. I'm not going to take the time to "relate" to my horse when he could very well kill me by being a complete idiot.
This is terrible...even if it doesn't "hurt" the horse. It is still FORCING him to do something against his will. These kinds of prob's are not solved quickly like that. I believe you need to work w/a frightened horse using compassion and patience...not forceful submission. It's all about pure, perfect partnership. That horse (in the video) needs ALOT more ground training before anyone attempts riding him.
i think that when some sort of an animal that size can go up on you and he did it not as a spook but as a mean utempt to get you off of his back then you better belive it i will smak him and i will make sure he would know that he was a bad boy, sometimes gentalness isa good thing but we all need to rember that there 1200 lb animals, and sometimes they do know what there doing, thats my ideas on that, so go ahead bash me and call me a horse beater id ont care, but the proof is the proof if you like it or not