hi it's josie and today i would like to show you my dog obi hello obi how are you
i would like to teach you how i teach a horse to move his haunches
so here comes dog number two sorry we've got some photo bombing today hello chewie
so we have obi-wan kenobi and chewbacca all right boys off you go go on a horse moving his haunches
is what we need to do traver renver which turns into half pass and just
a basic leg yield first of all he needs to understand this and this is how i teach it so
i use a dressage whip and i'll just move rebel over here
when we teach our horse turn on the haunches we would set him up to win as well so we would
use a rail on the side so if i was moving his haunches that way i would use a rail on this side
okay just to take one of the options away from him and help him understand the correct option
if you've got a horse that barges forward over you all the time you could actually do
it in the corner of the arena you also will tip the nose slightly towards you because
that already allows his energy if you think of him like this whip if i tip my nose that way
that end of it wants to go out anyway so nose tipped a little this way and
then you will tap tap tap here and the minute he goes to move over you stop
rebels looking very good off my leg so i'll increase the intensity until he moved and then
i stopped so we'll do that again because he's just like yeah whatever so let's move him over
good boy so in the beginning it doesn't matter which leg goes eventually i want that tapping
or my leg to relate solely to that the hind leg on the side so that if i've come up to a halt in a
test and he's left his left hind leg back i can just touch with my left foot and he
should step up with that left hind leg so nose tip this way and a little tap until he moves
good and i just increased the intensity of the tap so i don't get harder with it so i just start off
a little slower and it gets faster until he moves but in the beginning we don't care if he goes
sideways with his head up down or even really in a somersault as long as he moves his hindquarter
away from where we are tapping him so once we've got your horse turning his haunches on the ground
it's time to get into the saddle and do it from the saddle so keep minding that you are sitting
in the center of your horse in a balanced position carrying yourself not sitting on him like a bag of
chaff so sit up and carry yourself which i have to keep reminding myself
and set him up to win so i'm going to move rebel off of my left leg so
i've got the gate oh the gate the fence on the left hand side of us so it stops him
having an answer to turn that way because that's a wrong answer so i'm setting him up to win
we also tip his nose towards the leg that we're moving away from because if you think about this
whip if i move it that way it automatically wants to go that way so it helps your horse
with what he needs to do so we'd like to teach him to do this because this helps leg yielding
this also helps with traver and renver and it also helps with your half pass and that's great
when you need to get open and shut gates and can't get off the horse or if you're like me
they're too damn big to get on unless you've got a mounting block okay we tip his nose in
my leg goes slightly back up here on the girth is where i keep my leg for a bending aid so slightly
back and it goes on and it doesn't come off until he moves his foot i will do that again
you can't see my leg but i will tell you when i put it on and off okay so
i'm just gonna tip his nose a little this way good boy leg gone on off he's very slow today
he has just had a little workout so i tip him this way now i'm gonna move him back on and
if i had the whip in my hand then i would have tapped him so i will now be more ready for this
time if he's sluggish and i'll tip him this way and i'll put my leg on and i will ask him to move
it oh boy tip him this way leg on leg off leg on leg off tip his nose to the right leg on leg off
good boy so when your horse understands that you can turn it into a leg yield
you can tip his nose out left leg on ask him to step in leg yield on off on off on off asking him
to leg yeild i'm using the fence line to stop him going too far forward do a little traver
which he's just learning good boy
so i hope that's helped if you like give us a thumbs up hit the subscribe button in the bottom
right hand corner of the screen let me know in the comments if your horse is actually flexible
and can move his haunches either way i'd love to hear see you next time