Just a comment here. I love this video for this reason. You talked the entire process out so I could understand what the horse was doing and what you were doing to correct. There would be no way for me to see that he was pushing against your leg when he was pushing against your leg. Maybe other people can tell what’s happening but I can’t tell just from watching. I have watched this video about 10 times. Here I am watching it again. So really like when you talk it through as it is happening. That’s how I am learning more. Thanks again!
Great vlog. I agree with you 100%. Show them, when they figure it out back off and reward them. Letting them think through it is building the foundation.
This horse is sound what you are seeing is him compensating for the resistance that he is feeling as I’m asking him to do things that he hadn’t yet figured out how to position his body to find relief . This is common place when you isolate body parts to accomplish a very specific task . If the horse is on a really loose rein and feels no resistance at all the short steps go away . How ever no change comes In attitude or behavior . Thanks you for the question
A penny dropped again for me. Thank you 🙏. The weight of the rider shifting to one side or the other. I have heard about it but ignored it. You explained why and hence it makes sense to me now.
You could flex a bit . I feel like the flexing is primarily for taking their power away and softening the face . What I’m working on here is body control up into a soft feel . This is more of an approach from the hind end forward . This tends to elevate the withers and increases the drive from behind making it a more functional fix than just flexing would achieve . Not that there is anything wrong with flexing one
Fantastic! Thank you! Great riding & commentary.
I see that you are firm but gentle and quiet to give him time and space to think. Thank you for sharing. 🙇♀️🙏
Yes, thank you
Just a comment here. I love this video for this reason. You talked the entire process out so I could understand what the horse was doing and what you were doing to correct. There would be no way for me to see that he was pushing against your leg when he was pushing against your leg. Maybe other people can tell what’s happening but I can’t tell just from watching. I have watched this video about 10 times. Here I am watching it again. So really like when you talk it through as it is happening. That’s how I am learning more. Thanks again!
Great vlog. I agree with you 100%. Show them, when they figure it out
back off and reward them. Letting them
think through it is building the foundation.
Well said, and Thank you! Happy to have a fellow Mindful Horseman here.
I notice he often travels short on that left hind.
This horse is sound what you are seeing is him compensating for the resistance that he is feeling as I’m asking him to do things that he hadn’t yet figured out how to position his body to find relief . This is common place when you isolate body parts to accomplish a very specific task . If the horse is on a really loose rein and feels no resistance at all the short steps go away . How ever no change comes In attitude or behavior .
Thanks you for the question
A penny dropped again for me. Thank you 🙏. The weight of the rider shifting to one side or the other. I have heard about it but ignored it. You explained why and hence it makes sense to me now.
Now for this type of horse would you ever start with just flexing and disengaging the hind end before moving off ?
You could flex a bit . I feel like the flexing is primarily for taking their power away and softening the face . What I’m working on here is body control up into a soft feel . This is more of an approach from the hind end forward . This tends to elevate the withers and increases the drive from behind making it a more functional fix than just flexing would achieve . Not that there is anything wrong with flexing one
Dennis you could be a dressage trainer as well if you fancied