hi it's josie and today on this very windy day i am going to share with you one of my very favorite
exercises i do this exercise with a very green horse and i also do it with my more advanced
horses you can do it simply and you can add a little bit more complexity to it so in today's
video i will show you it very simply which you can do with a green horse your horse needs to
know how to leg yield though it doesn't have to be perfect he just has to be working through that
and i'll show you how i do it with a more advanced horse if you're anything like me
you see these exercises and you think they're fabulous and you think you're going to try them
and then by the time you get to your horse you've completely forgotten what it was
i've in the description below i have linked a pdf it's a very simple pdf with just a diagrammatic
drawing of what this exercise involves you can print that off take a photo and take it on your
phone or pop it in your pocket on a piece of paper and have a look at it just when you get there
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it let me know and tell me what you'd like to see because i'd love to do some for you
i use this particular exercise to help teach my young horses that they have two hind legs and
that they can use both of them so we'll just start this in walk and if you or your horse are learning
it make sure you do it in walk it has a lot of benefit in walk because you need to coordinate
some aids so we're going to come around here we're going to come down the long side i'm going to put
my horse into leg yield nose to the wall so whilst i'm doing this spider is now carrying a little bit
of extra weight on his left hind leg because that is stepping under his center of gravity
i've come to the center of the long side i'm going to straighten him up and now i'm going to bend him
and we're going to do a 10 meter circle now i've shifted his weight carrying from his left hind leg
to his right hind leg so on a circle and you must do your circles accurately if you can
your horse should be carrying more weight on his inside hind leg now we're coming back to the track
here and i'm going to head to c and i'm going to change his flexion and i'm now going to leg yield
him he's a little bit too sideways there he needed more forward and i'm going to leg yield him to see
so now i've switched the weight carrying back to his left hind leg so we went left hind leg
right hind leg left hind leg so i'll come around and i'll do it this way
so we get back onto the track and i'm going to leg yeild him nose
to the wall so now i have him carrying a little more weight on his right hind leg
and when we get to the center here just before we get to it i'm going to straighten him up
and change his bend to a 10 meter circle bend and now i've changed him carrying more weight to his
left hind leg so we've swapped so he's doing a few little deep knee bends one on one side and
then the other this exercise works both sides of your horse now i'm coming back to the track
and i'm going to look up towards A and i'm going to leg yield and i'm going to change the
flexion and then leg yield him off my right leg so now he's carrying a little more weight
on his right hind leg and that one little bit of exercise i did there i can actually
feel spider is a little more supple behind so it helps with the horse's suppleness
and it helps him to learn that he has two hind legs and that he he needs to work both of them
to make it a more advanced exercise for your horse it's a bit more advanced
instead of doing leg yield down here you can do shoulder in or shoulder fore in trot
and then when you get to the center here half halt bring him around on the circle
so at this moment in this whole part of this we are working the right inside and i do this in
rising trot because i do it as a warm up so when i get here i'll change diagonal
and then i'll ask him to leg yield so now he's having to carry more weight on his left hind leg
i'll come around and do that going away from you if the dog gets out the way
so either shoulder in or shoulder fore whatever your horse is up to i'm working his left hind leg
here whoops i've lost the angle a bit on to the 10 meter circle i'm still working his left hind leg
when i'm coming to the wall here i'm going to ride one bit
straight change diagonal and now leg yield him so i'm working his right hind leg
come around here and if you want to you can ride straight on or you can repeat the exercise or
send your horse nicely forward because now he's got both hind legs a bit more weighted
i hope you like that don't forget to let me know in the comments if you do
personally i love these exercises they help me a lot to learn feel thanks for watching