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I’m really anxious to work on transitions.
It’s just plain exasperating on the trail when you have to either trot to keep up or keep slowing your horse down. I ran across an article entitled “Extend the Walk“, by Mozaun McKibben that describes how to teach your horse two different speeds at the walk. Can’t wait to try out his technique.
I don’t lope my horses nearly enough and so therefore “we” aren’t great at it. Working on how fast and how slow my horse lopes is the real plus for me in this category! It’s really scary for me to lope my horse fast across a pasture or open space because I’m always afraid he will step in a hole. You know the ones I’m talking about. Armadillo holes that have grass grown across them so you can’t see them at all!!! I don’t have the need for speed!
Holding our breath is something we all do when we are scared. But your breathing is noticeably copied by the horse, so good breathing is good first aid for releasing tensions in both of you in scary situations.
“More How Your Horse Wants You to Ride”
Gincy Self Bucklin
Riding a young horse poses different fear issues sometimes than riding an older more lazy type horse. Stacy Westfall’s article, “Trot, Lope, Then Ride Out“ that appeared in Horse & Rider magazine, November, 2007, gave really good advice on avoiding problems and giving your horse a good foundation in transitions.
“Gain Speed Without Sacrificing Control“ by Mike Berg is another article that is all about speed control in the lope. It helps you refine the lope after you have mastered you and your horses fears!
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Being able to transition up from a walk, to a trot, to a lope and back down is what is described by Clinton Anderson as having a gas pedal. Sometimes my horse’s gas pedal is stuck on too fast and sometimes too slow. Working on transitions will help me solve this problem and I can’t wait to get started!
