Comments on: Foundation Training for Turns, Circles and Leads http://www.horsetrainingvideos.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:46:05 -0500 hourly 1 By: Kristin http://www.horsetrainingvideos.com/foundation-turn.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5008 Kristin Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:02:59 +0000 http://localhost/dev.xintyr.net/sites/horsetrainingvideos1/?page_id=570#comment-5008 Hi Larry, Your videos on YouTube and in the training tips have been a Godsend for me, since I am training on a tight budget. I have been doing NH for about a year with my Icelandic mare. She was dominant and kicked, bit and dumped off my family and I, when given to me, but finally is safe to really put some work on her. I would love to see her do the rollbacks, stops, and canter departs consistently that she naturally can do when she wants to. She is an English trained mare, but Western is so fun, and almost everybody rides Western where I live. About 90% of the time she will stop or back on a loose rein, and her turning is OK, but she will still occasionally do the old pony trick and duck toward something she wants, so you have to be ready. I can ride in the large arena (pasture) in a NH sidepull halter, as long as it has extra knots in the nose. She is finally starting to do rollbacks at trot and canter at the lunge. She is just starting to be able to canter in hand when leading, to give you an idea basically where she is. Would this video, Foundational Training, be where we should start? My other question, is, why does one move the horse's hindquarters to the left if you want to canter on the left lead? The horse begins the lead with the opposite hind foot, right? Wouldn't we want to move the hindquarters to the right to move the horse in a position to take that first step of canter with its opposite hind foot?---Thanks! Hi Larry, Your videos on YouTube and in the training tips have been a Godsend for me, since I am training on a tight budget. I have been doing NH for about a year with my Icelandic mare. She was dominant and kicked, bit and dumped off my family and I, when given to me, but finally is safe to really put some work on her. I would love to see her do the rollbacks, stops, and canter departs consistently that she naturally can do when she wants to. She is an English trained mare, but Western is so fun, and almost everybody rides Western where I live. About 90% of the time she will stop or back on a loose rein, and her turning is OK, but she will still occasionally do the old pony trick and duck toward something she wants, so you have to be ready. I can ride in the large arena (pasture) in a NH sidepull halter, as long as it has extra knots in the nose. She is finally starting to do rollbacks at trot and canter at the lunge. She is just starting to be able to canter in hand when leading, to give you an idea basically where she is. Would this video, Foundational Training, be where we should start?

My other question, is, why does one move the horse's hindquarters to the left if you want to canter on the left lead? The horse begins the lead with the opposite hind foot, right? Wouldn't we want to move the hindquarters to the right to move the horse in a position to take that first step of canter with its opposite hind foot?—Thanks!

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