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[RC] Improving the Walk - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: Sheila Larsen Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== Ok, bumping on the sides didn't work for my guy, it was a constant battle to get him to walk out. What worked for me was something recommended by Donna Synder Smith. She had me ride with a whip, I use a dressage whip because that is what I always ride with. I find it useful in keeping away barking dogs, moving poison oak, and have moved a rattlesnake with it, but I digress. I would tap/smack him on the top of his butt, not on the side, which is why a dressage whip worked. I would tell him to walk up, and if he jogged, I would "bump" him in the mouth and tell him to walk up. You don't bump him hard in the mouth, just enough to make them walk. But a bump works better than bringing them back to a walk than the aids you would do in a trot-walk transition because it is something different. Make it clear a jog is not what you want. It took persistance and consistancy but it worked. ===========================================================Personally, I shouldn't give a s--- where the other people on the course are, and if I find myself starting to concern myself over this, I remind myself that this is the first step on the road to overriding my horse and tell myself to "knock it off!" :) ~ Kat Swigart ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ===========================================================
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