Emergency One Rein Stop

in which i tell you how to practice a one rein stop at home. so to help you prepare for disaster. its also a great training method to teach a horse to stop better.

don't do this exercise a lot. maybe 4-6 times a year. if you do it to much it can build the wrong muscles on their neck. bending and flexing s still an okay thing to do every day.

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• one
• rein
• stop
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[ILoveHorseNico45]

you sound very educated i would just like to know where your knowledge comes from.

[HorseTips101]

@ILoveHorseNico45 I learned all this from my trainer. She doesn't do your typical style of training. She likes to do a little but of everything. Like parelli, reining, hunter/jumper, cutting, ect. We may to actually practice reining and stuff like that but we take the concepts of it and put it into our horses to make them better and safer eventers.

[wishes4kissez]

Is the one rein stop bad to do frequently? Clinton Anderson recommends doing hundreds and hundreds a day at all three paces to teach a horse to slow down and be calm?

[HorseTips101]

@wishes4kissez Todd Minikus said it builds the wrong muscles on their neck. He was right. A few horses at my barn had a fat neck dew to being one rein stopped to many times. We stopped doing it as much and worked on other things to slow them down or stop them. It worked much better. I find that some horses figure out if they run fast they know the rider will pull them around & stop them. Stop mean a break to them. I find running them in small circles everytime they go fast helps snow them down.

[HorseTips101]

@wishes4kissez but like i said on the video it's really for emergencies and a good thing to know how to do. (in moderation of course) :D

[TheRosa63]

what would you do if your on pavement with yards, and mailboxes, kids etc? how do you circle on a slick surface?

I have had horses runawy with me, thankfully never when riding on pavment mostly on pasture or trails. I still get images of a severe runaway with a bad fall when I was very young, of that day when I canter a horse. even if horse is being very good.

RRR

[HorseTips101]

well personally i wouldn't circle on pavement. well i wouldn't really be riding on pavement in the first place. :) but if i did I would just steer the horse off the pavement. and either let the horse run its self out or if there were lot of people around put the horse in a circle and make the circle smaller and smaller until the horse slows or stops.

[HorsesxXLuvsXx]

Hi great vid ! Good method,thumbs up!

[1112Georgia]

Great video - soo easier to understand than the most of the other horse videos in utube :)

[AmigoAndPar]

I typed up a comment, but it was WAY over 500 characters. It will make more sense if you go down to the first comment posted by me and read upward. Sorry about that, thanks for posting the video. :)

Again, these are a few minor points that work well for me. You did a very good job with this video, these are just a few pointers that may help you or a viewer in the same way that they have helped me. Thanks for posting. :)

[AmigoAndPar]

Also, if you want your horse to listen to seat cues, it is important to sit before you pull on the rein. I like to sit for two seconds before pulling the rein. With repition, your horse will learn to stop when you sit deep in the saddle, then instead of doing several circles, your horse will stop off your seat and be ready to flex to your rein.

I also find it beneficial to flex the horse to the opposite side after stopping. This prevents the horse from walking off without me telling him to.

[AmigoAndPar]

When a horse takes off or you feel unsafe, your first instinct should be a one rein stop, not pulling back on both reins. A One rein stop does not make a horse feel trapped, as pulling on both reins does, and it allows the rider to get control over the horse's feet. After control is gained, the rider can start the horse circling, etc, to regain the horse's composure.

[AmigoAndPar]

Also, one rein stops must be practiced if you expect them to do you any good. You cannot do too much of this. If your horse is building the wrong muscles on his neck, that means he is bracing against you. A horse should give to you softly, not bracing or pulling on the bit. If you expect a horse to understand what to do in an emergency situation, you will have had to build habit for the both of you.

[AmigoAndPar]

Thank you for posting, you did a good job of explaining an often misunderstood concept.

I do have some comments, though.

First, when flexing a horse, they should have slack in the outside rein. If you keep pressure on both reins, he will not understand what you are asking. When I do this exercise with my horses, I only use one hand to hold the reins in the middle, and slide my other hand down. My off hand stays in the middle of the horse's neck, to ensure they have slack in the outside rein.

[SkittlesGirlxx]

Haha the funny thing I noticed is the horses tounge sticking out haha! 0.37 :D

[cassycassxoxo]

this was a very good video and you explained it very good! one question though, do I pull my horses head around to the left on the left lead or right? and vice versa.

[4everrjumper]

The key to doing the bending excersise is to keep the reigns that you're not pulling on slacked, or else you can severely confuse and injure your horse...

[bettylion]

Very good video, well explained. Something everyone should be taught in case of emergency. My instructor taught us this when I was only 8 or so, and I guess I never forgot it because it saved my butt a couple of times on cross-country with runaway horses! She also had us practice flying dismount, first at walk, then trot. That also came in REAL handy in times of crisis..knowing how to bail while pushing away from the horse. Good stuff, you brain will remember it when needed.