A "try" test???

[reata]

Originally Posted by twofatponies

Then for example you can be going straight and make a turn to the right and by picking up on the right rein yield the horse through the turn, for example if he tends to drop his shoulder in the turn. Reminds him to rebalance and step under with his inside hind leg?

????? please explain????

[twofatponies]

Originally Posted by reata

????? please explain????

That's why I included the question mark after my attempt to explain!

Because I'm not sure I can. I'll try to explain what I feel, but I may not be understanding it completely, so other people's explanations might make more sense...

Say I'm ground driving a horse 10 feet away from the long side of a ring, parallel to the fence. If the horse has been taught, I can use a half halt on the inside rein in time with the inside hind leg to ask the horse to step over with each stride, so that as we go along the long side we gradually move to the outside, until by the end of the long side we are over by the fence.

Similarly if I am riding I might do the same thing, though I'll use my inside leg as well as the half-halt on the inside rein to move the horse over a little with each stride, until we are gradually next to the fence.

My understanding of the flexing exercise we were talking about earlier, where you teach the horse to yield the hind leg on the same side as the rein is that it teaches the horse the concept of this kind of yielding. I'm guessing there are other ways to teach the horse the same concept, since not all people use the "Buck Brannaman hind leg yielding flexing exercise" or whatever we want to call it, but many horses know how to yield out, either from the leg, the half-halt or some combination thereof.

Does that make more sense? Hopefully?