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So today we're going to do one about forward motion. when I was in the United States doing clinics I saw a lot of horses that they kind of start and stop. They step off barrels, they don't keep forward motion and when you lose forward motion you lose time. So what I have here today is I have three horses. I have a finished horse, who's four years old, who's really good with his forward motion. A lot of it is natural but some of it is trained. Then I have a three-year-old and then we have a two-year-old. So what I want to show you today is what it should look like and the steps to get there and how do you do it. I mean I can stay here and tell you all day you know, ¨hey you need forward motion, you need forward motion¨ and I can show you what it looks like with this horse but I want to be able to show you how you can get it with your horse and the difficulties you're going to experience and the phases that you go through to get to where this horse is at. |Because it would be really easy for me to jump on this horse and look like a superstar when really the steps to get to where he's at are kind of a long process. So let's get started! This is a four-year-old, his name is Zorro he is by El Shady Zorrero and his mom is Fire Water Flit, she's an own daughter Fire Water Flit. just so you understand how the horses are bred here today, in case you're wondering. Like I said he is a four-year-old and I´m just going to warm him up we're going to do the exercises and I’ll explain a little bit about what I´m doing and then we'll let him even work the barrels. Let's go!

First thing that you really need, is you really need your horse to listen to your inside rein. You know when you ask that horse, he should come to you. and you see how he's starting to bend and his body is in a C, even at a walk I have a balance here. He´s listening to my inside rein and I’ve got some outside leg Trot a circle

I don't want it to be an egg and I don't want him to drop on his front end, it's a nice circle. He's listening to my inside rein, guiding him with my legs. He likes to look around because he's a stud and he can be a little annoying sometimes. So now I´m going to change direction, so when I change direction I don't want him to slow down and I don't want him to speed up. Now I´m going to ask with my body first, I´m going to sit deep in my seat and he's going to know that something's coming. So I´m going to turn him. Turn now I sit back in my seat and I change. I sit deep in my seat, there he stopped. Now that I don't want I want to make sure that he keeps that cadence even at a trot. So I´m going to change direction. There we go. Now remember, you have to let them know that you're changing direction without just grabbing their face. So I´m going to sit, change direction. When I try to change direction without sitting did you see the response I got with his face? I´m going to do it again. I´m going to go to the right but I´m not going to sit this time. You see how he jerked his head up and down? So this time I´m going to tell him. I sit and I change direction. Do you see how he kept his head down? Sit - change direction

So the first thing you have got to do with your young horse is do it at a trot. Now this horse is pretty good at it. He's a little bit difficult because he's a stud, but you guys got to see the forward motion at a trot. So now what I´m going to do, I´m going to lope him in a circle. I´m going to ask him to turn then lope into his circle and then lope back into the circle.

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ready to push up but that extra what he did just there, he was not listening anymore to me. So you always want that control. He's got a nice arc in his

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again back to your circle

and you can do it anywhere on your circle. So I´m going to turn, cross my circle, turn again back out to my circle

Good job! So now I´m going to basically do the same exercise we did here but I´m going to throw a barrel in the middle of it. The only difference is I want my circle bigger than here because now what I want him to do is kind of search for that barrel but also keep that balance and that forward motion without losing control. So I´m going to do it at a trot first so he knows we're not actually doing the barrels

turn it all the way around

and here I´m keeping him shaped

now I´m going to let him go a little faster

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So now here I am on a three-year-old. She's a year younger, she's already competing so she's not like a beginner but she's still not quite to where the four-year-old is at. She is also a daughter of El Shady but her mother is a daughter of Royal Quick Dash. Her style is a little different from her brother too. She tends to want to turn on her front end so I have to work a lot to keep that forward motion and to keep that hip up under her. So now what I´m going to do I´m basically going to make her do the same exercises as him but I´m going to explain the difficulties and what I do to fix it while I´m riding her. She is a little stiffer of a horse than he is so you'll definitely see the style difference but the movement of the feet and the balance is the same

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and the same thing you always want them listening to that inside rein.

Now I´m not saying an outside rein is not helpful because it really is, I mean it's why we ride with short reins and horses do listen to the outside rein but your horse needs to be really soft to this inside rein because that's the rein they're going to follow as you're coming around the barrel. Like imagine there is a barrel here and I put my hand here and she follows my hand. I see a lot of girls want to lift their horses off of barrels now watch, watch her body change when I try to lift her. She braced automatically. She braced and that's what happens to a lot of girls and competitors I see because their horse doesn't have the forward motion and the horse is not listening to that inside rein. So it's very important

It's the same thing I´m going to do a circle and I´m going to ask her to change direction. Now because she has a horse that is more front endy than the other horse I´m going to sit my trot. On the buckskin horse, On Zorro you saw I posted, I would post a lot with him but he has a tendency to use more his butt so with her I’ve got my weight shifted back so that she will stay more on her backend than her front so same thing I´m going to sit harder and change direction

and you see her circle isn't as pretty as his because she is more of a stiffer horse but I don't want that. I want her, I want her to be more rounded. So back to our circle. So like I said she's an intermediate horse so how do you know she's not giving me that perfect circle. What I´m going to do, I´m going to drop my hand. You're going to watch, I´m going to do a circle, I´m going to drop my hand. I´m going to keep my hand lower. I´m going to keep that tension on my inside rein but I want to give it and take it. If you always keep the tension she's going to start to rely on that and start to lay on that inside rein. So you're going to see I´m going to keep my hand lower than normal. I´m going to give and take and you see how she already dropped to me. Now she's flexing more, she has her hip in, she has her nose in, she has her shoulder up

so I want to ride normal but if I do that she's making more squares than she has circles and when she does that she's wanting to drop and when they drop they lose forward motion so I brought my hand down. Now I don't want her to stop

so what I want to do now is just push my hand forward. I did not raise it up, you see I just pushed it forward

so right here where she wants to stop I just push my hand forward and then bring her back

push my hand forward and then come back

now back to change my direction. I´m going to sit - change direction

I brought my hands back to normal and she's more flexible on this side. Her left side is her stronger side so I don't have to keep my hand down so much. Now I´m going to change direction. I´m going to sit - change direction, only this time I´m going to bring my hand down. I’ve got to train her to stay more fluid on this side. So it's a give and take, it's a give and take.

back and forth, pushing her forward with my pelvis, keeping her body arced with my inside leg

Now I´m going to sit deeper and change direction and as you see the transition was smooth there was no loss of momentum there was no stopping there was no speeding up so same thing now I´m going to sit, change direction - change direction Now I´m going to make my circles a little smaller. Let's make it a little harder for her. I´m doing a smaller circle, sit deep - change direction and you see when I change direction I literally just drop my rein and pick it up. So she got stiff, bring her head down

sit - change direction

I´m pushing her forward with my pelvis. I´m giving her some little kisses. Sit deep - change direction

sit - change direction. And as you can see when I sit she starts to arc her body

I can feel it. You're going to sit - change direction

Good girl. So now we're going to do the same exercise, we're going to do the circle, turn and turn with her

cut across my circle

she's speeding up and slowing down. Speeding up, slowing down. I´m going to stay two-handed for right now because I have got to show her what it is I want

a little outside leg, open my inside leg, push her forward and outside leg again. So it's not just your hands you have to make sure that you use your legs. So right here I´m going to use my outside leg, open my inside leg , push with my outside leg again

so now I´m going to make my turn a little shorter, a smaller turn her. Push forward ,turn her again, push her out. Good girl. So now we're going to do the one barrel just like we did before. Now what you're going to see with her because she's still young, remember she's only three, she may anticipate, she may step out wide, she may rush, she may slow down. She's still figuring her body out but that's why you have to remember, you have to have that inside rein control. You have to have control with your legs, with your seat. Know when to push them forward and when to stop

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So this should be fun. This is a two-year-old that knows nothing. I’ve never done these exercises with him ever. He just came from the breaker and he is by Slick By Design and he is out of an El Shady mare. So really I guess all the horses I´m riding today are all El Shady breed without that being intentional. He's a nice guy but like I said I haven't rode him much, hardly at all. So here we go! So let me just kind of show you what you have got to do with your colt. The first thing is, we just have to show our figure eight, our circle. Like I said you want to keep that nose to the inside, you want to keep the hip in. So how you do that? I’ve got his nose tipped in, I’ve got my outside leg back by my back cinch that is keeping his hip under him, I got my inside leg open. So when you're asking your horse to do their circles make sure that when you ask with that outside leg your inside leg is open and vice versa. If you have a horse you need to hold up a little bit in a circle like the last horse I rode, the brown mare, I would have to actually keep my inside leg on her to kind of hold her up but I left my outside leg open. So it really just depends your horse. Most horses are like this, like him. You're going to need to keep your inside leg open and keep your outside leg back, back by your back cinch, that will help you get that C shape and get that circle. If you want him to move forward just push your hand forward and then move forward. Now like I said earlier, your post controls the speed of your trot, so I post with my younger horses. I don't want him to speed up and I don't want him to slow down. So I´m going to keep it tightened with my posting

so now I´m helping him because he's just two. I want him to be able to stay in this circle with just my inside rein but I´m going to have to help him. If he wants to come in, I just move my hand down I use a little inside leg and he moves out

right now I´m bumping him with my inside leg to keep him shaped and when he's shaped and if he wants to fade out I bump with my outside leg

so now I´m going to change direction

He´s kind of lazy so I´m going to sit deep, change my post and you see he changed directions on his own. So it's really important even when you're teaching forward motion that you understand you're posting if you're going to train a young horse. So when you want to change direction you sit one post and now I’ve changed to that time so just by changing my post he understands that when I sit I´m going to do something. This leads us later when we're going faster that all I have to do is sit deeper in my seat and he knows we're going to do something. I´m training him to say ¨ when my mom sits down that means we're going to change direction or she's going to ask me¨ and it all starts here with the trot. So let me say that again, you have to know how to post. So when I get in the middle of my eight I sit one trot and I change. I do that enough that he figures out that even when I´m sitting a post if I sit deeper I´m getting ready to ask for something. Let´s do it in smaller circles, so I´m sitting now but I´m sitting on top of my pelvis I´m not sitting on my butt. Now I´m going to roll to my butt and change direction now I´m back up on my pelvis pushing him forward with my pelvis. Now watch when I just sit and roll back on my pockets. Go back on my pocket and we change direction, so I´m on my pelvis - I´m on my pockets

sit deeper, change direction. I´m on my pelvis - I´m on my pockets

Good boy.

you see towards the end he was able to do small circles, change directions, bend in his body and never lose cadence. So now we'll try to do circle, turn, circle, turn which he's never done and again he has never done this. So I got my circle

I´m going to ask him to turn

outside leg, outside leg push forward. Pushing forward again

pushing forward That's what you're going to experience when you first try this so I´m going to ask him again. Outside leg, inside rein, push him forward. Ask him again. More outside leg, push forward, push forward

push him forward

push him forward

I let him stop because he got better. Remember this is first day ever to do this exercise. We're going to do the same thing but remember he doesn't know anything. So I don't expect it to be perfect and I don't really want him too tight on the barrels right now. I want him just to have a nice smooth forward moving circle. A circle not an egg, not a square, a forward moving circle but because he's only two I´m not going to take him as close as I did those other horses that are a year and two years older than he is.

and again he has never done this so you're going to see all the imperfections but it's good that you see it because we all experience it

but I’ve got forward motion, forward motion, push your hands forward.

I´m helping him, inside rein - outside leg