Getting and maintaining soft, steady contact through the reins can be challenging, but it makes a big difference to your riding.
In this video, I show you some tips on how to improve your contact, whether you’re riding bitted or bitless.
This will improve your connection with your horse in the saddle, and make your positively-trained rein cues more sensitive and effective when you’re riding.
It’s a simple exercise and I show you it dismounted and ridden.
Watch the video now to see it in action:
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When the horse walks, it is easy to follow gentle the rythm and movement of the horse‘s head… but in trot it is really hard not to give little „ bounces“… even very good riders give these little bounces to the horse‘s head…
Do you have a tipp for that?
Thank you in advance
Myriam
Hi Myriam, thanks for your comment. I’ll do a video on it, but one of the best ways to practice is trotting without reins to first make sure that you’re balanced in trot without them. Dismounted exercises to increase body awareness will also really help as that usually happens when the arms are moving with the body, rather than being able to separate the movement (similar to what I showed in walk). So, this could be something like yoga or dance or tai chi or feldenkrais etc where you focus on moving your core and arms independently. Hope that helps and I’ll get a video up soon, as well!