Concept of "Getting the horse in front of the leg".

Getting the horse in front of your leg is similar to revving the engine of your car. Imagine that the engine of the horse resides in his hind quarters. We can summon energy from the engine and it can manisfest itself in changes of balance that match our intent. I think knowing what you want, but using force will deny learning the timing and feel needed for success. Gripping shuts the hip joint and makes the horse fight moving forward. Exploration as to what horses like, what works biomechanically, and how to request energy are the keys. It is amazing how happy, free and well oiled things feel when you apply your aids and the horse finds the bit that is available and offered to him to connect into. To be truly in front of the leg, the energy will also express inself by forwarding a front leg. This energy that front leg expresses helps connect the neck out to the offered rein contact. The horse makes the committment by submissively jumping in front of the leg with dispatch and allows the energy to be packaged on to an awaiting rein.

Focusing on changing up the timing of what rear hind is on or off the ground creates an amazing communication base if the rider will get to know his/her torso and the ways to channel the energy as it is created.
I do not truely believe that most folks really know what it feels like to have the horse shoot in front of soft coordinated forward driving aids. The strength used in the application couple with a lazy type of response is not a rev of the engine. With the the type of moving forward I am talking, the horse submissively renders his hind feet to my control therefore "he who can move the other's feet is top dog.

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