The Riding Lesson w/ JP Giacomini - GETTING THE HORSE ON THE BIT & ROUND!

These are excerpts from a riding lesson JP gave Working Student Vilma Rivera in December 2008 on Lusitano Stallion "Fabuloso" see more photos and videos at: www.BaroqueFarmsUSA.com Inquire about JP's
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[ShelleySGiacomini]

I'll get JP to reply to your questions....everyone LOL.... Thanks, Shelley

[spurpop]

I can get my horse very round in the trot and pretty round in the canter but in the canter to trot transition and throws her head up and runs into the trot and it takes a while to get her slow and round again. How can i fix this? If it helps she an off the track thoroughbred.

[ShelleySGiacomini]

Slow down the canter by repeating steps of reinback BEFORE you start the canter. This can also be done on the lunge by repeating transitions with the help of side reins and the use of a circle of diminishing size. The other is to use the diminution of the circle size to make the transitions happen under saddle. It is also a good idea to try to get the transitions with using one rein only (see which one works best). However difficult transitions are, do many of them before he gains speeds up.

[inline6359]

I loved this video, and watched the entire , uninterrupted lesson! I found the leg tapping facinating and wondered if the horse had been trained with the endo stick before it was ridden, so that its response to the leg tapping was a natural extension from that pretraining?

[ShelleySGiacomini]

Yes, Fabuloso has been trained using Endotapping. However any horse would respond in the same way, but may just take longer at first. The Relax Reflex Reward technique elicits a NATURAL reflex of relaxation, but the horse may go through the predictable phases of "resist" (fidget, move away, etc.) "ignore" (pay no attention to the stimulus), "Relax" (put the head down and start chewing) and "change" (finally move forward and change his range of motion).

[Fanwi]

it encourages the horse to begin working long and low correctly using their backs. Its not harsh on mouths and allows the bit to roll across the horses tongue. This method is more used for horses that are young or new to dressage. It also stops a false impression of an outline by allowing more independen movement of the horses jaw and stops the rider hanging on. Hope that helps dustnrose :)

Really good video!

[kerrycan69]

That horse looks absolutely Gorgeous <3

[goldeena]

i am having such a hard time collecting my stallion... he has very big gaits and it's difficult to sit and i push with the legs all the time because he's heavy and i play with the reins to collect him and i still can't... the worst part is at the canter! his head is up and i'm trying to bring him to the bit all the time and pushing with the legs and i fail, i get dissapointed and you can imagine the result.....

[Myponies4eva]

my pony only goes down on the bit in canter. what can i do because whenever i twiddle my hands about she either puts her nose to the ground or raises her head. is there any sort of rein i could use or any technics. shes 16 so its quite hard as her old owners probably didnt care about her going down on the bit or not. basically i would just like tips or advice. thank you :) xx

[Bubble734]

this was so helpful :) I do this with a horse I ride on camp and it works really well but i basically had to figure it out on my own (the seat aids + setting the hands) so it's good to know I'm doing it correctly.

The horse that I do it on though is very well schooled, and just needs those aids for him to do it, but horses at my local riding school are ridden by beginners a lot, and are hardly ever made round. So, when I try it on them, they just put their heads in the air + harden their mouths

[ImmaSayWhatAWanna]

@callierocks6 Hey i've recently had this problem... how did you solve it? :)

[tooprettyforpink]

DO you have to keep your hands over there the whole time?

[xXGirlforeverXx]

you're just an AMAZING teacher :] but is she supposed to keep her hands in such a distance, i mean, so deep and so far away? although she wants to get him on the bit my teacher always tells me i should lift up my hands a little bit, because I also tend to put my hands so wide.