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"Reins: 5 Tips to Improve Your Use," from my FREE monthly newsletter
From the Natural Horse Training Series:
"We clinicians teach "handling of the reins" in a particular order and emphasize certain aspects because we repeatedly see a pattern of "universal truths" from one rider to the next. We see this and we see opportunities to make marked improvements fast. Students don't realize how much pressure they're applying, that they never release, that they're actually rewarding poor behavior, etc. They're mad, the horse is mad – and they pay me to put on a black and white striped shirt and blow a whistle. "Stop fighting; go to your respective corners." This stuff is simple – but there's a pattern to it, a flow and rhythm. If you're having issues with your horse – or just want to improve as a rider, give this material a whirl.
You'll find five tips – each with "your handling of the reins" as their focal point – each guaranteed to make your friends at the barn wonder if you haven't inked a deal with the devil. This is the material I cover most often, the stuff I hit the hardest, the concepts I believe to be the most important, the undercurrent running through the rest of our training. While I won't specifically deal with the mechanics of handling your reins, ("Hold them like so") the material covered will change the way you think and so will ultimately effect the way you do hold, release, etc. Bottom line: You'll improve much faster if you first understand the "why" behind the "what, when and how.""
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Stop Bucking Study Course
A Downloadable Book
A sample from Day 4:
"Here’s another version taught in every one of my clinics, a great exercise that you can (or should) start out with every day forever:
- begin at a stand still with zero pressure on the reins (ideally they’d be dropped, lying on the horse’s neck)
- pick up the reins and move forward - try your best to apply zero pressure to the horse’s mouth (look for a droop in the reins as proof of this)
- walk or trot, (your choice: at a walk you learn the exercise, at a trot the horse learns it)
- apply pressure on one side, let’s say the left, using the left hand, asking the horse to turn in a wide arc to the left. Your right hand will “help out” the left, pulling slack, preventing the rein from drooping, that sort of thing)
- feel the pressure exerted by the horse’s stiff neck on your left hand
- when that pressure lessens - or the horse lowers its head however slightly - let go and pet your horse.
- go forward exactly two steps
- pick up the opposite rein, ask the horse to turn to the right and repeat the process
From there you’ll simply meander around, left then right, right, then left. Be careful to make sure that you’re asking for the give while turning. That helps keep the connection in the horse’s brain between the rein and the feet. Don’t turn too sharply; make sure that you keep moving forward."
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