Saturday, April 17, 2010

Drills

I erased my original draft. So I'm gonna do the abbreviated version. Drill, drill, drill. Fence the horse. Do the neck rein circle drill until the horse gets better, then fence again and repeat the neck rein circle walking drill. Over and over, same thing- fence, circle drill, fence circle drill repeat. Hopefully this will help with galloping circles but I need to experiment.

When whizzy wanted to look left, go east while galloping a circle to the right, so I turned him to the inside, sometimes kicking the hind end out of gear, but I ended up resting on the west end and he began liking the west end. Also he began wanting to slow down and stop on his own. Where as tuning on him had made him worse. I only galloped one circle at a time on him, sometimes two but mostly one. I really had to pedal him to make him go which I like, so I'm gonna start doing this in the middle, lope a circle , kick the hind end out let him rest, repeat, repeat, repeat. Until he gets programmed- sounds bad but it works better than just loping the crap out of them, tuning on them etc.

Also Im gonn try it more for shoulder dropping to the inside, lope a circle, spin to the outside and repeat it over and over and over untill the horse anticipates it and starts drifting the shoulder out in anticipation.

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