. Something was going > wrong if the rider needed to pull so hard that the snaffle was pulled > through her horse's mouth. > > Really all you do is stop your horse in place and ask him to move his > hindquarters around his front feet. It's easy to teach and there is not > much rein action. > > Oh - and you teach it one step at a time. I would ask for one step then > immediately ask the horse to move forward.
Well I wasn't gonna say it and have my head bitten off again, but I agree--something is wrong when the bit gets pulled thru the mouth. As we talked about recently w/ the Parelli YoYo game, many people have the tendency to rush thru "teaching" something and not break it down into enough steps. I've certainly been guilty of this before too! My son has been learning about the scientific method in school. They had to write a 10 step list of how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich; the teacher went thru these over a couple days and demonstrated just how much was left out in their lists--ie, "step 1--open the bag of bread" and the teacher would pull at the bag and finally rip it open: "is that right?"--of course not, b/c the step of "untie the twist tie" had been left out. It's a good analogy of how much we can really break steps down and not cut corners when training. Robyn S
