Re: RC: chelle's questions.

[DVeritas@aol.com]

For what it's worth...
    The FIRST aid applied is your seat (read, "weight, correctly distributed")
    The SECOND aid, the legs, softly brushing at the calf
    The THIRD is the hands.
If the horse's impulsion starts in the rear, traveling along the spine and at 
the poll begins to gather into the rider's hands which softly capture all of 
that tremendous energy, ROUNDNESS happens, it has to if the hands correctly 
capture and caress that energy.
    And I agree Heidi, whatever apparatus one may use on the head, if 
PROPERLY used, the horse must and will travel in the correct 
frame...comfortable and not afraid of the rider's hands terminating all that 
forward energy in the poor horse's mouth/face.
    As for rearing horses, usually horses with no where left to go, go UP.  
Always leave a soft place for your horse to go and enjoy the ride.
    So do your horses a favor and focus a bit more on what is happening in 
the haunches and down the hocks and one will wonder how the front end ever 
straightened itself out so easily.

    Sleepless in Nebraska,
              Frank.


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