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Date Posted: 15:34:44 06/11/07 Mon
Author: kyla
Subject: re crops and training
In reply to: Melissa 's message, "Cantering issues" on 05:50:33 05/28/07 Mon

The idea that the horse will lose trust in you because of the use of aid reinforcements ie crop, spur is ridiculous. If your trainer is a professional, I am assuming she is able to use these tools with skill. I am not talking about leaving marks, but friesians have a tendancy to be quite insensitive, and so they must be taught to respond to the forward driving aids if you are planning on doing dressage with him. I was just at a young horse clinic with Shannon Dueck(pan am gold, olympic games) and she explained that the FIRST and most important lesson for the young dressage horse is that forward means forward, and that you need a serious reaction unless you want to train the horse to be dead to the forward driving aids. The horse is not reacting and it needs to be reinforced until he does. Trust me, if you ask softly and you don't get a reaction and then you give a serious reinforcement ...next time you ask softly, there should be a good reaction..sometimes this takes a few tries, but it certainly work in teaching them to become more sensitive.
Your other option is to keep kicking the horse around and around the arena, deadening him to your forward driving aids.
I have never once had any of the young horses I have started fear the aids, crop , or me ect, for this..in fact, in the long run, it is MUCH kinda that nagging and nagging with your legs.
kyla

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