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Re: [RC] [Guest] TTEAM Balance Rein - Jim HollandRidecamp Moderator wrote: Naomi Preston mustanglady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Speaking as a current TTEAM Practitioner, the Balance Rein is a very effective tool to lighten a horse that's heavy on the forehand. It's purpose is not to just stay with the horse at all. The purpose is to be able to give the horse a signal at his neck/chest, rather than on the mouth. By asking the horse from the chest, you can overcome resistance you may have by continually pulling on the horse's mouth. In TTEAM, we use a couple of different types of equipment to get this effect. One is called the neck lariat, and it is a stiff loop of lariat rope. The other is basically a rein in a large loop. They each have a different "feel", but are both excellent tools for rebalancing a horse. Bobbie Lieberman told me about these and I ordered one. It's really interesting to use. My horses put their heads down on rein cue and move, stop, go forward, etc. with leg and weight changes. My challenge was to see if I could accomplish the same thing with the lariat. They pick it up almost immediately. For example, my "head down" cue from the saddle is to "rock" the hackamore across their nose by alternately puling on each rein. They get "attuned" to that, like the John Lyons' one rein cues, they anticipate the "rock" and drop their head on a "one rein" pickup....anticipating the "rock". They almost immediately translated the rein/hackamore cue to the lariat. Usually you need a "transitional" cue to have them understand what you want. I tried just "bumping" the lariat against their chest as a substitute. They picked it up immediately! Neck rein is, of course, basically the same, and a tug backwards with a weight shift means back up. Release with foward lean means "go forward". But how quickly they learned the alternate head drop cue was amazing. You really control the horse with what's between his ears, not what's in his mouth. Jim, Sun of Dimanche, and Mahada Magic =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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