Everyone, On this exersize when the horse is feeling of you, would he be kind of following the rope around in a easy following way as if he is going with the...
That is my impression. It would be a combination of following the feel of the rein and also following your body language. A friend of mine gave me a GREAT tip...
Hi all At Leslie's clinic recently in Fort Collins, CO, she made a comment I've never thought of before. Watch the positioning of the horses front leg and the...
... Yes. It can be fun to also experiment with bending the head around without a halter or lead rope. Getting the horse's attention, bringing up his life the...
Hi everyone, I'm Sue and have never posted but am an interested reader of all that's written here. I thought that there should be a soft kind of a feel in the...
Another question for everyone. I been thinking about this "getting with the horse so he can get with you." And I think I understand it, but it must be a fine...
Rachel wrote: It seems to me it might be a tricky place to understand the time to get with the horses so he can get with your feel and letting him take over. ...
... You know... I think THIS might have been my problem! My horse was very difficult getting her to feel this for me. However, Tuesday night I played with it...
Thought I'd stick my thoughts in on this. On page 82 Bill talks about learning to follow a feel. The jist of this is perhaps to go back to the horse ...
I concur with Nancy's opinion of what Bill is talking about on page 92. Start by gently holding the horse's nose bridge and applying ever so slight bit of...
Barb, Thanks this was a good post and I am being to see that in my teaching of the horse I've spend more time wanting him to get with me instead of going with...
It is interesting what people see in the exercises on page 92 and 93. Since I use a mecate and slobber straps (small light ones) there is some movement on the...
... I can only tell you what I like to do. I would be real concerned with a horse that started out needing to trot and then just went faster and faster. I...
Janie, You are an excellent verbal communicator to us, quite good at putting to words and giving pictures of exactly what you are trying to convey. Thank you....
Janie is right. One of the things I like so much about Bill’s book is that he asks us to be continually thinking. I can’t tell you how much little and ...
... wrote: I ... really ... Requesting input about this tipping the nose around. I have an 8 month old stud colt. We do much at liberty. I stand at his side...
... Hummmm...you have a very interesting question. If you are working at liberty, and what you are looking for is that he meet you half-way, then in his mind...
Jeanne writes ..... "I stand at his side and ... Hi Its been a while since I have posted, but I'd like to give this a shot.... I have always felt that when a...
Nicky, that was an awesome explaination of softness in bending and how the thoughts, motivation and intent of the horse cause how he responds. When we work...
In a message dated 2/18/2005 8:24:18 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, billsbook@yahoogroups.com writes: Just this week he has begun to tilt his nose so his eye is...
Page 29 "EXPERIMENTING - Like we spoke about before, you need to be experimenting all the time. The way you make small changes in how you set up little ...
All is well with the Duke of Palindrelli. I have not seen the cockeyed "bird look" again. I just hold different things at different heights and distances. He...
I'm working with Svala, a 5 year old icelandic mare. There is a lot of good stuff going on between Svala and me, but I have one trouble area and I don't know...
I may be way off according to Bill's book, but I will share with you some personal experience. For awhile we were buying for resale a few Morgan horses that...
Hi Tina, I've found that a lot of horses that have difficulty picking up their feet get better if they learn to prepare themselves to balance with the...
Hi Tina, We have several QH's, Arabian and 2 Icelandic mares, and I trim and handle all their feet a lot. I also notice that the Icelandics here need a...
Hi Tina! I have lately had same kind of experiences with my young mare. She has been sensitive about her hind feet all the time I have had her (1 year now),...
Now those horses are really good about the feet handling and aren't dangerous either. I think one of the things I like about this method is that it keeps your...
This just reminded me of something quite cool. Last August I broke my forearm badly, had surgery, etc. The healing process takes much longer when your over...
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