hello it's josie and in today's video i'm going to show you how i help my young horses
find their own balance on the lunge each horse has its own tempo which it finds its own balance
in easiest and it's our job as their rider or handler if you're doing it on the ground
to help them find that particular tempo and i'm hoping that by showing you this today
you can see when abbey finds her tempo and when she's actually falling out of
balance it's very obvious and that will hopefully help you with your own horse
okay off okay walk on good girl good
good steady
i like all my horses to walk on the lunge it drives me insane when a horse won't walk
i'll let her trot on because i want to show you
that all horses so she's running at the moment all horses have their own tempo the tempo the
one two one two one two speed but they find their own balance in and our job as a horse person is
to help them find it and then when they've found that develop it steady you'll see her's this girl
it's quite obvious when she hits her tempo that's why i thought i'd choose to show good it's coming
because what happens is the whole body moves together and if you look she looks like she's
there here it comes good girl now that's her tempo there whoops and
she's lost it again she's running on the forehand
steady so my job as her rider handler whatever you want to call me is to find that there
that pace there and then develop her from there and what you'll find under saddle green horses and
this girl is green is that they run they slow they run they slow and that's just part of the learning
process of them finding their balance so she's not even that balanced on a circle without me
on her so imagine what she'd be like with me on her that's it you can see it she's quite
obvious this mare which is why i thought i'd use her as a demo she really can swing
and that's when she's found her balance and she's got her tempo her natural god-given tempo
good there it is good girl good girl good girl good girl okay so she's got balance and then she
runs on her forehand loses her balance and then she finds it again good girl this way that's a
girl see if i can take a little bit further down this way away from the camera steady sted aha good
now you can see she's making the the circle smaller how can you see that because the lunge
rein starts to drag on the ground i'm not moving so she has to be quite normal as well good girl
and walk good girl walk
on walk on walk on walk on so horses learn you know they go and stop and Trot trot trot
okay she didn't go so good girl but i won't finish with that correction i'll get her
and walk and walk so go and stop start with voice commands which she learnt in the round yard
and trot trot good girl because nobody gave them a manual when they were born
with when your rider pulls on both reins you stop when your rider kicks you on both sides you go
so somewhere along the line we need to teach them good girl good girl good girl
so what we do is when she finds her tempo and when i can get her doing a few circles
and keeping her tempo i might try and just push the tempo on a little push the trot out good girl
i'd like her out more so i'll point my whip at her shoulder
i want the circle bigger she doesn't need to be doing such a little circle as such a baby horse
take all your legs with you we'll go at you go
and horses are so predictable so she falls out that side and she falls in
around here in a minute good good good good good girl good girl good girl good girl
that's a girl and and walk
i don't do a lot of walk with side reins on this mare is really quite green
but as you can see they're quite long as in she's well and truly in front of the vertical
in them i'm not a huge user of side reins so it just helps keep the horse on the circle
when you're lunging and this girl also when i first started her the minute you put any pressure
on the bars of her mouth or even just touch the bit her predisposition was to rear so we could
put the side reins on it and just send her forward so she worked out she could go through the contact
and that it wasn't you know she didn't have to go up and stand on her hind legs because
ain't nobody like that good girl and trot trot trot that's it and walking
repetition is the mildest form of punishment if you want to look at it that way i never end
and never end um like i wouldn't have just kept going as on the correction i
have to come back and the horse has to show me she understood the correction
for me to be happy and sometimes they don't sometimes you have to do
the correction three or four or five times till they actually get it good girl
so that's her natural rhythm there as a green horse that's her natural tempo one two
one two one two one two one two one two one two so if you have to go back and look at the beginning
and see where she was running around on her face falling forward for want of a better
way you know she really was out of her own tempo still a trot rhythm a one two one but it was not
in any way shape or form a balanced one she was falling forward think yourself when you're running
if you're running really fast sometimes i don't know if you've done it but i certainly have you
actually will lose your balance and fall forward good so we actually end up instead of wanting our
horses to do this we want them to do this and be balanced and walking what the halt will do
now she's backs up off of that contact
just that little bit of contact there i know because she does it under saddle too
good girl good girl
so it is actually a big red flag to me that too much pressure on this mare's mouth
will actually have a horse that stands on her hind legs and you can very easily talk teach a
horse to rear this is my beautiful abbey who i sadly had to put down i'll link her story
here if you'd like to see it don't forget to like the video and subscribe to the channel if
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