Horse Riding Training

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Horses are non verbal creatures. They do not understand English or any other verbal language. They communicate threw body language. We communicate with our horses in two ways. The first is an “Aid.” An Aid addresses your horse’s physical makeup,so that if you touch your horse and stimulate a muscle, he cannot help but give you a certain response.

a “Cue,” on the other hand, addresses your horse’s memory. If you give a verbal command, accompanied by your body aid, every time you ask your horse to canter, he will associate the sound of the verbal cue with cantering. Soon he will canter each time he hears the verbal command. Both Aid and Cue are helpful in your horses development, but they both need to be given clearly, and used in a contistent manner so they will continue to be meaningful to your horse.

Use one cluck for a trot and two clucks for a canter. The horse rapidly learns this and responds immediatly. Any verbal cue has to be concise and used consistently. Continuous mindless clucking will just result in a numb horse that tunes out all verbal cues.

To understand the proper timing of your aids and cues, you must first understand how your horse moves in each gate. When you ride your horse you want him to “give you” his feet: if you don’t know where his feet are and how they should be moving, your horse will never fully give you the responsibility to place them anywhere.

You should never just get on your horse and indiscriminately ask him for lateral work, lead changes, or even simple transitions with out first thinking about how his body is positioned.