learning with others

So, in my never ending quest to keep up with technology, I will attempt to use my blog to help illustrate some points brought up by questions from the online book forum class I have been teaching. The class is reading 101 Horsemanship Exercises by Rio Barrett.

I have short some short video segments I will post. Now I am not yet clever enough to add music, so you'll have to listen to my comments...so the first is hq to fq. This is Carol Fitzpatrick and her horse Twinks. Watch the first, then see what looks better in the second. Notice the position of Carol's shoulders, see how that directs her horse.





That was not so clean for a hq to a fq. She had to use her rope to back the horse up, then the horse wasn't sure where she was supposed to go. Separating the hind from the front is critical in really "getting to your horse's feet". This kinda follows exercise 50 in the book. You should take your time, if you do not get a clean hq, do not go on and ask for the front, just hq to a stop.



In the second video, you can see how the horse is following the feel. The hind is moving separate from the front. And the horse's footfall follows that of Carol's. When Carol's feet stop, so do her horses. Very nice, thanks Carol and Twinks!