So glad that you are understanding more and recognizing
what is being said or done, you've come a long way baby!!!! :-) In Dressage training, you rarely use the
stick on the butt. In teaching Piaffe
& Passage, the stick is occasionally used on top of the croup to encourage
the horse to keep the tempo. Using the
stick behind the leg is done to reinforce the leg aides; if you use the stick
behind & on the haunches it is telling the horse to yield the HQ as in disengagement
or move the HQ laterally as in leg yield or turn on FH.
Often, when a
horse is either trying to take control or dealing with emotion, the best thing
the rider can do is become calm and not fall into the game or emotion the horse
is sending to you. So rather than have
you get suckered into this, I had you quietly use figures to redirect and
channel Try. You do not want to get into
an argument as it only increases the energy, so you redirect into bending lines
&/or circles as they automatically help collect & slow the horse. Because you repeat the bending lines &
circles without getting emotionally involved, the horse is left to figure out
that getting strong and rushing is getting them nowhere and they are working
harder, getting nowhere fast and this is the wrong answer. When the soften and slow down, you can allow
the horse to move in a straight line, if they get quick and try to take over
the game, back to circles - They figure it out fairly quickly and you haven't
worked hard, the horse has.
Lynn had a similar
problem with Little Foot, the mare didn't want to allow Lynn to direct her and
was snatching on the reins, so I had Lynn hold the bend and just remain quiet
& uninvolved. We spent quite a while
waiting for the horse to realize that she was working hard and Lynn was not
getting into it with her. The mare
finally decided that she was working too hard and began to settle; Lynn was
surprised at how little she was working and how the mare threw a lot of guff at
her trying to distract her and get her into using her hands. I've had times where I am passive aggressive
in that I don't let the horse pull me
into an argument and I just use the "broken record" approach till the
horse realizes they can not get me to fall into the trap they are setting or an
argument, I just maintain the aides for what I asked them for originally. Sometimes they are like children who try to
wear you down so you either give in or get into an argument. If the horse plays you, they win the battle,
if you remain calm and focused...you win the war.
Me
---- Elizabeth Pope <ehpope@embarqmail.com> wrote:
> You inspired me to go back to the Scale of Training
dvds w/Christoph > Hess. I started where I left off which was titled
Contact but in the > 30 minutes I watched they didn't really talk about
it. What was
> interesting was that the rider was Marion who rides
with Linda Parelli > and is starting dressage from a Parelli perspective.
I thought her > horse was so beautifully exuberant and I could
understand the
> corrections that were being givin in way that would not have
been possible for > me a year ago. He did seem to be pointing out what
he saw as common > American misunderstandings i.e. using the crop--to
take the thumb off > for greater flexibility in use and to use just
behind the girth and on the shoulder and rarely on the butt??
>
> I loved the new technique for riding in the field
with Try. I liked > the way you said Try was "taking over the
game" instead of picking up > on the emotion from Try of wanting to go to the
gate. We so match and
> mirror each other. So much better not to buy into
that emotion and, > like you said, stay calm and relaxed so I could
enjoy the fun of > circling and lovely swooping serpentines etc.
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