but clearly don't know how anymore, despite lesson from becky sunday.
set off left rein, the easy rein, fine, got him up to trot, fine, did a few circuits. my body language got ahead of my telling him, as i was thinking, that's looking good, lets try the other rein...
so he stopped (he's good about stopping on the circle facing the way he's going without turning in).
could we get going again?
no.
on either rein.
i remembered what becky said about getting some movement, and keeping the rein tight in the direction you want to go, and so on, but nothing......
left rein slighly better but not really going again
it's difficult not to walk backwards instead of doing a small circle .....trying to watch what he's doing (nothing)...
ggrrhhh
i gave up before i got annoyed (and my wrist was starting to feel the strain ..)
guess it's in hand work tomorrow!
Spend some time in hand getting him to move away from you. You may actually have to use some physical force, as if you are another horse, pushing him out of the way. It's not a matter of hitting him, or anything, it's actually body blocking until he begins to move out of your space. Once he starts to respect that, he will start to move away as you move towards him. That will then translate to the lunging where you move forward from behind him and he will start to move from your body language.
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