today's video shows rebels 20th ride under saddle in the early days when he was a very
green horse so about ride number 20. so in this video i'm working at getting him forward
that allows me to get some connection and contact okay so that's what we're working on this is the
very early days of working on that with your horse i show you in its entirety including
the two spots where my pixel camera lost me and spun out of control so sorry about that but i
didn't want to edit the video i would like you to see the whole training session and if you stay
till the end you will actually see him i think it's about his third competition out that he's
ever been out to and he scored somewhere in the low 70s okay this is rebel he is about five weeks
under saddle i think Ok this is Rebel and he is about five weeks under saddle I think
and he's had probably just had the last 10 days off he got a bit of a
fat leg i don't know what happened but he got a fat leg
he wasn't even lame but a little bit conformationally challenged this boy so
i just make sure he's 100% before i work him because i don't want anything to happen to him so
he's had he understands go and stop and turn but they're all very crude aids at the moment
there's no finesse to them but that's okay because that's where they all start some horses come along
faster than others this boy hasn't done very much canter under saddle at all he's not that balanced
in canter on the lunge so why would i canter to him under saddle with my weight on his back he
can be a little bit reactive and trust me when he decides to do airs above the ground he could put
the spanish riding school horses to shame hence i'm in a little half breed saddle which is my
breaking in saddle all that happened there was i actually stopped moving my pelvis and he stopped
so if i had to tell you what he felt like if he was a flat table top if he was a flat table with
four legs all the weight would be on this left leg up here and that's just him bumping into the bit
and me concentrating on you and not being as supple as i should be and therefore he
stops and then i just touched his mouth stops he's got a pretty good stop on him
so he's got to learn to go go which he does but then he's got to learn to be forward
because if he's not forward i can't do anything so rhythm suppleness contact first three parts
of the training scale i'm working on rhythm on him suppleness and contact you sort of work they all
work together but at different levels it's like an onion you do one one bit at one layer and then you
peel that layer that's done but there's another layer and you're still working rhythm suppleness
contact and then you get that right and you think awesome but then there's another layer
so it's a little bit never ending i'm just gonna stop and check my girth woah woah so
he has to stop and stand on a loose rein good boy get out you're not getting any sugar okay so
and then i'll sat up and put my leg on him and asked him to go i'm pedantic if i ask him to go he
goes if i ask him to stop he stops if i sit up and he goes and i haven't asked him then he's asked
to stop because he has to look good boy and all that was then was a little tiny tug on my inside
run because that's what i wanted a little bit of flexion but i didn't put my leg on first therefore
he stopped so rider error all right so we'll just see how he will go and don't you come out
and scare the bejesus out of him i don't need to video my tape myself going through the air so i'm
just sitting up here i've got a very soft feel on his mouth as soft as i can almost like two threads
if if i had cotton any that's how i sort of think of them to start with so that break if i make them
hard you'll see when i'm trotting if he leans and reefs forward what i'll do is engage my core
and close my fingers and try to just make it a little bit uncomfortable i won't move my hands
he'll hit a brick wall i want him to get off this left shoulder there good boy i don't know if you
saw that but he was falling in on his inside shoulder that's his natural crookedness yep good
boy and all i did was touch him i've taught him this okay so let's go ready and trot good boy i
use a lot of words i might not be able to talk too much for a bit i might just have to concentrate
long straight lines so he's pulling here i'm just trying to carry my own hands
with a feel for him he's got sensitive sides and he's probably not going to like my legs
for a minute we might do a bit of pig rooting so i just make sure i'm sitting back good boy good boy
good good good good boy good boy good boy good boy so just trotting him down here yes
his head's up and he's a bit hollow he's nice and forward i'm going to try not to stop him
which can be quite nerve-wracking on a young horse but if you shut them down well then you
can't expect them to go forward whoops you know what happened there put some leg on him
and he slowed down which is actually not that unusual horses quite off he
sensitive horses will hump up and go and suck him with leg which is what he's doing but he's
not liking it so i'll just ask can we go trot not canter ok so you cant get cross your not
allowed to get cross your not allowed to get scared
he's just reacting to what he's feeling
on his body remember i told you i don't have much steering i seem to have lost all my steering today
good boy good boy good it's okay he's forward and like the feeling i've got on his mouth is
very light because he has to accept me just touching the bit ah see that's my leg here
as soon as i put a little bit more leg on him which is a bit of habit because i ride a lot of
horses further along he slows down he's looking at himself in the mirror it doesnt matter
good boy when he goes along nicely like that i just try to sit here quietly steady
good i didn't stop him cantering now i just didn't actually go with him
because i do usually lunge him and i haven't keep going i haven't lunged him i did a little
tiny bit tonight but not much because running out of daylight good boy good boy
good boy good good good good good good very good boy so now he's nicely forward
and as you can see he's actually starting to reach for the contact i just keep it there
that was my fault because again he's just a bit confused because i put a bit of leg on him to
try and push him through there because he went heavy he doesn't understand can't get cross got
to find the way to explain to him what i want keep going forward good boy i need to stop talking to
you and concentrate on him good good boy keep going so when he's nicely forward i'll tell him
good boy can't do much circle work and just do long straight lines and forward
now he's pulling hard so i just put my core on problem is putting my core
on my legs automatically come on and he doesn't like it get on the right diagonal
good boy good boy what a good boy good boy keep going keep going keep going keep going
keep going yeah good boy very good good good good good good good good much better good good ah good
as you can see he's starting to reach i just keep the my hands here the fact that he falls
in and falls out well he can't help that i gotta try and use my core to stay balanced
on him so i don't upset his balance any more than it is carrying me good boy
very nice nice yep no yeah good boy very good boy
nice this way this way yeah good pick a line and try to ride to it not that easy on a green horse
good much better much better good good come this way i'm
just indicating with the inside rein come this way
good boy and he's hollowing back at me there i should try to send him forward a little
because he's busy what the dog's doing over here
you'll see in the top corner nothing like other animals to desensitize your horses
ah he won't hurt you now i'm trying to send him forward because he's backing off of me good good
good good good boy see if we can do a circle here it won't be very good probably because he
hasn't done many circles using my circle points
on the arena to ride to even though i've got a young horse outside rein becomes a side rein
so he doesn't bulge through the shoulder by side rein i mean i just kept it there and he had to go
through it and bend good come on no no that's because he doesn't like
most people get cranky and tell a horse off i'm telling you he doesn't understand
good change the rein again good boy good boy good boy yeah good okay just trying to get a bit more
control of this left shoulder because he leans on the left bit side of the bit good much better good
very good come on forward because we're yeah when he's forward he reaches for the
bit forward good
okay indicate indicate all i'm doing then is squeezing the inside rein to say come around
whoopsie that was my now good good good good good good good good good boy what a clever boy you are
no come on keep going sit back when you smack him jose or you'll get dumped
that hands are terrible that was my fault i hope you saw that i need to stay here
and the horse goes to them good like i'm carrying them like i'm carrying a tray
good good good good boy much better there see that we have two steps of elastic into my hand lovely
come on keep going come on show these people how it works mate good
hard work for him because he's got a yeah now he's leaning and all i did then was engage my tummy
see if i can get him come up see if i'm getting a bit more forward good so forward
is everything if you don't have forward to start with you have jack shizzer good okay
okay good boy so my hands are just here he wants to take the bit it's there
the dog's in heaven out there eating horse poop i think
good boy good boy good yeah good boy good boy see if we can be a bit tricky today good
good very good i don't care that he stopped all i did was ask for canter and he cantered you can't complain
hands are still horse is going to the contact now he's off it send him forward
being careful good now he's back to it good very good boy good should even be able to
do perhaps a nicer circle here come come not falling out so i keep the outside rein straight
keep the outside i'm not pulling it's just where it is he has to move this shoulder
yeah that's where people go wrong when they fall out they try and pull on the inside rein
i'm not even pulling on the outside just keeping it straight go forward so i pop my
little whip out there and we'll try that again because this might be a good bit to show you
go go go i can't do anything at the moment because he's not forward he has to go forward
first come on come on come on good boy half this way this way this way good good good
ah what's he doing out there good boy okay okay
and stop see he's falling onto his right shoulder i want him to know to bring when i bring both
my reins this way it's the yeah there shoulder this way shoulder and i've got the pressure on
and i'll help him yeah pressure came off when that foot came over good boy good boy well that's
the start of shoulder control as well which if you don't have that you can't do good circles
good and i think that'll do him and here you can see rebel out competing this
is i think competition number three with him he's doing a prelim test it's an official competition
he finished with a score of i think it was 72 - 73 % so he did very very well
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