06/07/2014
Attitude Adjuster http://ow.ly/yPLLF Being able to give yourself to a Horse like Mr Exclusive is an amazing thing, Getting your timing right in riding the balance and when he can move to deliver what you are asking for means that your reins have no more weight in them then their own wieght, and this is what this looks like, Watching people hauling on Horses mouths is so heart breaking, because when you ride like that, the Horses not only have so much pain in their mouths but so much in there hearts and minds, we ride as though we hold their hearts in our hands and because of this they get to understand they never need to fear our hands, they never need to brace themselves for the pain that is coming, this then changes everything, we learn and they then grow in their respect. The Beauty of the dance whether it is on the ground or in the saddle then it is always beautiful and Horses tell people how good your hands are, this is why Horses don't buck with us or run into fences and trees, or Rear.
One of the greatest things I teach Horses is to go forward at the slightest ask, when I deal with Horses that are all messed up, then sometimes this takes me a while to fix but it is my default setting, a free and untroubled Horse no matter how talented is the safest place to be when they are travelling forward, all the rest of the things I get bought, they are all man made issues, How the Hell can people train race Horses and have them rearing and going backwards, OMG the animal is a forward thinker, how could someone screw that up so bad is beyond me and then claim a tag as professional, Mind blowing.
Once I get their very essence in their being to feel safe to offer me forward again as nature intended it then we have something to work with and I can rebuild everything around that, if I don't pull on them they don't pull on me and so it goes a piece at a time, When we teach people to read Horses and truly understand what is happening and why, the world changes for everyone.