hi it's josie and today i want to show you a quick little check you can do on your horse
to see if he's just meandering around the arena on his own or if he's actually listening to your aids
it's very simple and it requires you to do absolutely nothing so it's very simple
and then from there you can go on and i will show you how to do a little fix of it
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that way you don't miss any videos when i pop them out so let's get on with it what it requires
is for you to walk through the corner of your arena with no reins so no steering of your horse
no legs on your horse and you need to watch where he decides he's going to start to turn so i'll do
this with spider now he's had four days off so i'm hoping that he's quite in his holiday mode it's
easter here so he's had a few days off but he's in holiday mode and he's not switched on to me i
haven't warmed him up i haven't done anything i've literally saddled him up and got on him
so that's another thing that you need to remember horses can come in from days off or even just
tomorrow and they're a bit duller than they were the day before that's why you should go through
your basics and check that they're all switched on to your aids that should be part of your warm-up
let's do this so i'll just do a circle here in front of the camera and then you'll see no
reins and no legs now it's going to be hard for me to keep my legs off of him because it's a habit
for me to use them so no arms no legs and spider is starting to turn now now that is not where
i would choose for him to turn because i would like him to go a little steeper into the corner
so that tells me where he turns okay so you need to keep that in mind for the next time around
now when he when we go around this time i'm just going to put my inside
leg on him and see if he will stay on the line of travel from my leg no reins so i'm going here
and we're awake to hear he's moving right did you see him come there did you see him come off
my leg i put my inside calf off of him and asked him to stay on the line that i chose
which is very good good for him he's a good boy he should be he's a little bit further along
in his training on a green horse or a young horse or a horse who doesn't understand that
they will just completely ignore your leg because they don't know
so we'll do that again and i'll show you what to do so if i got here and a
horse didn't listen so i put my leg on he hasn't listened i'd actually say excuse me
thank you so i gave him a couple little taps sorry spides he really didn't need them but a couple
little taps for him to move over so he needs to learn that when the leg goes on he moves over
so if you're on a very green horse you make sure you just have his nose tipped in
and then this leg on him and ask him to go into the corner good boy
you may end up having to stop him tip his nose and ask him to step off your leg you might need
to do that in the corner or if he continues to fall through just out here remind him
that that leg means to get off of it so if you've got a really green horse a horse that
doesn't understand and he's here and you put your leg on and he's not off what i would do
is stop and ask him good boy to move off my leg like that get right off my leg and then i would go
go forward and the other little trick for a horse that just continuously pushes
through is to actually get into the corner and turn him the opposite way to what he wants to go
so when he gets there and and he um wants to turn his way and not bend into the corner so
i'm here and i'm asking him to go and he won't turn around i just turn him to the outside
and you do you can go up and down back and forth on the short side or on the long side
of your arena and turn his nose away and walk back and turn his nose away and what
you'll find is you'll get to the point where you would normally turn him away and he will think
that he's going to be turned into the corner and then you can just keep going straight but
he's not pushing through your inside leg so we got here and spiders used to being turned that
way and now i can just put my inside leg on him and he would go into the corner good boy spider
so that's just a little check that i will often do and i will particularly do i don't do it
so much to be honest on my more advanced horses because there are other exercises
but that exercise is such a good exercise for a young green horse to learn what your actual inside
leg means it's before you actually as you could see i wasn't actually doing bend or anything
in the corner i was just asking him to stop falling into the corner against my inside leg
it'll also help you feel when your horse starts to turn off of the line of travel and take his
own corner you will feel him on your inside leg and you will also be able to feel him move
off of it when you put it on sorry spider i just did then hope that helps you thanks for watching