i think everyone has had a super knee jerk reaction to that video & taken what they THINK is happening (teaching the horse to back up) rather than really looking at what is going on in the video...
i do not see that at all. you can see that the horse is totally 'off task' (haha, to apply a teaching term) and she is doing what she can to get it on task. by the outfit the horse is wearing, i'd say it probably has a GREAT understanding of responding to pressure & may ride very well (or at least, its' isabell saddle & dressage blankie indicate that), but that perhaps it gets very worked up & goes to lala land when it goes out to comps or something.
she's shanking on it & waving her hands at it & slapping it loudly on the neck (at the end) to get it to tune in. she's trying to get it to disengage it's hindquarters so that it's feet are moving & it's shifting from reactive (left brain) to predictive (right brain). however, horse STILL doesn't give a shit, so she has to up the ante, so she's getting it to move a lot more.
at this stage tho, i think she's a bit conscious that ppl may be watching her & she wants to get some kind of result. there's quite a bit cut out & perhaps that's where she's "waiting" for the horse. i was taught that you may need to wait for the horse to get out of its head for even up to an hour, but that you should be willing to wait!
i know that all sounds a bit hippy, but honestly, i've had a horse that completely disregarded people & it was so unfun. parelli worked for me & it worked for my horse. another person on bad_riding suggests putting a bridle on the horse, and you could prob do that too & get a similar result. but i think shanking on a bit/bridle would be just as, if not more, painful as shanking on a rope halter.
it'd be interesting to see what the horse rides like because the rider could just get on it & get it flexing to the inside & get it tuned in that way - probably easier!
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i do not see that at all. you can see that the horse is totally 'off task' (haha, to apply a teaching term) and she is doing what she can to get it on task. by the outfit the horse is wearing, i'd say it probably has a GREAT understanding of responding to pressure & may ride very well (or at least, its' isabell saddle & dressage blankie indicate that), but that perhaps it gets very worked up & goes to lala land when it goes out to comps or something.
she's shanking on it & waving her hands at it & slapping it loudly on the neck (at the end) to get it to tune in. she's trying to get it to disengage it's hindquarters so that it's feet are moving & it's shifting from reactive (left brain) to predictive (right brain). however, horse STILL doesn't give a shit, so she has to up the ante, so she's getting it to move a lot more.
at this stage tho, i think she's a bit conscious that ppl may be watching her & she wants to get some kind of result. there's quite a bit cut out & perhaps that's where she's "waiting" for the horse. i was taught that you may need to wait for the horse to get out of its head for even up to an hour, but that you should be willing to wait!
i know that all sounds a bit hippy, but honestly, i've had a horse that completely disregarded people & it was so unfun. parelli worked for me & it worked for my horse. another person on bad_riding suggests putting a bridle on the horse, and you could prob do that too & get a similar result. but i think shanking on a bit/bridle would be just as, if not more, painful as shanking on a rope halter.
it'd be interesting to see what the horse rides like because the rider could just get on it & get it flexing to the inside & get it tuned in that way - probably easier!