🐴 There’s More to It... · Get Good With Horses Courses

🐴 There’s More to It...

✨ Morning all,

we’ve spoken quite a bit about guiding the nose, space clearance and encouraging a relaxed neck/posture. These are important pieces, absolutely.

But as you begin to chip your way through the Groundwork to Liberty communications, something else starts to unfold…

It’s not just about the front end, the real change begins when we start moving the whole body.

That’s where we can begin to undo stiffness, built-up tension and also create a language they can understand which matches our General Skills.

Naturally, when the body starts to move better, the mind follows because tension melts into understanding and confusion becomes communication.

👉 Another way to explain it is that in the beginning 1 + 1 should be easy for them to calculate by not going in expecting them to answer 2 + 11. Then, and as we grow our skills we can advance the math's equation, advance their mental state and advance the skill set.

Things like:

• Send them out and around

• Hindquarters over and lighten

• Forehand over and lighten

• Sideways over and lighten

• To-and-fro

• Turn, face, and wait

• Changes of direction

• Zig Zag

• Utilizing the effects of Drive and Draw

These simple exercises start waking up the feet and softening the body and build conversations you can start to have, not just when you practice, but all of the time. The idea is to not just practice when you have practice time - the idea is that your practice becomes your new normal.

So if you’ve been focusing mostly on the nose and neck so far, that’s okay, it’s a brilliant starting point.

But the magic really begins when the feet start to understand their job too combined with the up and down energy signals.

That’s also when, if you understand the process, groundwork can quietly start turning into liberty.

🐴✨🫶

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