hi it's josie and today i'd like to ask you a question do you ride with your handbrake on i know
i did for a long time and even to this day i have to check myself to make sure i haven't fallen into
bad habits so what do i mean by got the handbrake on it means that you're hanging onto your horse
and you're keeping him with your hands in the tempo that you want him to go that is incorrect
we keep our horse in the tempo we want him to go with our seat our body so i'm going to give you a
little quick demo of that because rebel's a good one for me having to be aware that i don't have
the handbrake on him let's go rebel ah if you like these videos please give me a thumbs up subscribe
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comments how many of you ha ride your horse with a handbrake on there's no shame in it i did it for
a long time until somebody actually taught me and i went oh i think i do that all right let's show
riding with the handbrake on are you always just hanging on to your horse's mouth a little bit too
much so that he doesn't go too fast quite often you won't realize you're doing it until well i
know that i didn't until someone showed me how to feel for it so if i'm riding rebel along like this
i've got a lovely soft connection in my hand i can feel it am i riding him with the handbrake on how
do i know i'll just get out of this corner so my trot rhythm is one two one two one two i've done a
video on rising trot and how you should control the horse with it so i'll link that up here
and then um you can go and watch that at your leisure
but so he should be listening to my seat i've got the handbrake on now i can actually feel it
because if i put my hands forward can you see what happened to him he's getting faster and faster
so there was no listening to my seat then so now he's listening to my seat how do i know
i can't show you now i'm going away from the camera can i
let's do it around here
steady steady good boy good boy good boy no yeah no is that tractor scaring you mate
it's the tractor over there
walk on do you want to have a look it's just a tractor
good boy it's just a tractor
good boy
okay so how do i know that i don't have the handbrake on when i'm trotting down the longside
here i can give my reins and my trot rhythm stays exactly the same i try not to give it for
too many strides guys because the horse may lose his balance particularly if he's young and green
but if you just ride him quietly on a circle
and you just give your reins and the rhythm stays what you're setting in your body
one two one two one two one two one two one two so there i'm not riding with my handbrake on
good
so now he's getting faster i hope you could see that so had i grabbed with my hand and held on
then i would have been having the handbrake on what i actually did then was just um used my
body a little bit more to ask him to listen to my rhythm whoops right diagonal jose good so giving
my reins and my horse stays on my seat my rhythm but it's what i mean he listens to my body if i
if he's going a little fast here because it's a bit spooked behind us
that's a good boy good boy let's change the rein
so a little tip for those that stayed to the end of this one to make sure you've got your
horse can you change the tempo with your rise i've gone faster now i've gone slower
now i've gone faster now i've gone slower
so rebel is listening to my seat now and i don't have my handbrake on
hope that helps and thanks for watching see you later