I am starting a new thread for this question, so my curiosity is not within KPnuts diary.
Just to recap - the USA trainer Buck Brannaman (of Horse Whisperer Fame) says that one should be able to sit on one's horse and ask that horse to move any leg and pretty much in any direction. i.e. place a leg where one wants it.
When I went to a demo, I got the idea that he controls both front legs with his reins and the hind legs with his legs but KPnut reports Buck using his legs to move the front feet too, cueing in front of the girth.
I cant yet do this but I want to try. So ideas and comments would be welcome.
Is there anyone here who can already do this with their horse? Or when training?
Would it be a bad thing to teach this (especially front foot movement) to a UK horse ridden English and not used with cattle?
And if so how do you cue it ?
Experimenting this morning I found that (if my horse was standing four square to start with) I could ask the right fore to step sideways but the left fore then followed it - which makes sense. As a horse needs to stay balanced
In my first attempt it was the right fore that moved across to the right first - which I thought made sense from the point of view of a UK RS horse.
When Brannaman says you should be able to move any foot does he expect all the other feet to remain still ?
Or is the first step a first step in a turn or shift of position as it would be in Rashid - When working with cattle far more emphasis is placed on the front end of the horse than when one is taught dressage turns in the UK (I think)
I should make it clear that there are no rosettes to be won or any point in my asking the horse this. Just a sort of challenge that there is something a trainer says a good rider should be able to do, but I cannot. RIs have often said when I am on one of my fav. horses - There is nothing that horse wont do for you Skib - And I think it comes from my love of messing about on horses.
Just to recap - the USA trainer Buck Brannaman (of Horse Whisperer Fame) says that one should be able to sit on one's horse and ask that horse to move any leg and pretty much in any direction. i.e. place a leg where one wants it.
When I went to a demo, I got the idea that he controls both front legs with his reins and the hind legs with his legs but KPnut reports Buck using his legs to move the front feet too, cueing in front of the girth.
I cant yet do this but I want to try. So ideas and comments would be welcome.
Is there anyone here who can already do this with their horse? Or when training?
Would it be a bad thing to teach this (especially front foot movement) to a UK horse ridden English and not used with cattle?
And if so how do you cue it ?
Experimenting this morning I found that (if my horse was standing four square to start with) I could ask the right fore to step sideways but the left fore then followed it - which makes sense. As a horse needs to stay balanced
In my first attempt it was the right fore that moved across to the right first - which I thought made sense from the point of view of a UK RS horse.
When Brannaman says you should be able to move any foot does he expect all the other feet to remain still ?
Or is the first step a first step in a turn or shift of position as it would be in Rashid - When working with cattle far more emphasis is placed on the front end of the horse than when one is taught dressage turns in the UK (I think)
I should make it clear that there are no rosettes to be won or any point in my asking the horse this. Just a sort of challenge that there is something a trainer says a good rider should be able to do, but I cannot. RIs have often said when I am on one of my fav. horses - There is nothing that horse wont do for you Skib - And I think it comes from my love of messing about on horses.