 Just wanted you to think about this the idea of you working your legs working his legs stretching Getting your positioning thinking about how you'd want to ride like if I'm riding him right now How would I want to be sitting so I do this all before I get on so that it's already the vision is in my mind Because when I have a vision in my mind my body thinks I've done it already Right, and if you don't believe me Talk to like professional athletes that use like sports psychologists, and what do they talk about? Visualizing so what better place than on the ground and so so much of the time people will say well I don't need groundwork with my horse Well, maybe your horse doesn't but maybe they do the second question about the mind pertaining to the mind of the horse would be Does your horse understand what you're asking? But it doesn't respond appropriately or like you'd like it to like husbands Sometimes take off the garbage. Okay This is your horse do that. I'm kidding, you know, but you know what I mean, right? So Do they understand and do they respond? Appropriately that makes a difference on if I get firm. It's interesting the mind of the horse We make it out to be some it's so important. It's everything. It's not that complicated With those three questions the life of the horse is that scale zero to 100 we talked about that the body of the horse Will come third The body is super important, and it's all connected. It's all connected but the body Will naturally come if you've got the mind and the life So I need his life to come down a little bit more so I can mount up and then he waits for me Now, you know why he waited for me he waited for me because My groundwork I climbed up on the block and I gave him a rest, right? So I patterned that concept Now if you get on your horse and Your horse walks off Think about that. It's very Significant If you get on your horse and your horse walks off with you and it does happen sometimes But if that's a regular occurrence Your horse learns to get out from underneath you and it learns to go forward It doesn't wait for you and that's communication. It needs to wait So you get a horse standing and if you get on and they walk forward Chances are a lot of your ride that horse is going to be forward because that's the first thing you did when you got on You sat down and it went forward so you have to get a horse to kind of wait for you now I'm on him He's tuned into me You know, I can see this in his ears and so let's see if I could get him to look somewhere else I'm gonna have him look over to the right now How I did that that headlight thing that I did leading So I took that headlight and I could do the same thing over here take that headlight You know or over here take that headlight now if I was lacking if he's lacking a little bit in response I could work I could wiggle a little leg and that would draw his ear and draw his mind And it would be like if somebody walked up to you and you didn't know they're behind you and they tapped on your right shoulder And you go oh hi Right, so it's the same thing with my leg if I were to tap on my leg use my leg It would draw him. I Could use my rain the same manner so what I could do is I could work he's really feeling for me here and if I look here He looked here and and so he was really going off of my front side my headlight and Where I was focused that was excellent. So now we're gonna work this side so what I'll do here is I'll add a little rain and I'll just sort of squeeze release or I'll I call it pulsing I'll pulse the rain just like again tapping on his shoulder now I could use my leg and I could have him look over here. I Could use my rain to have him look left Look at those ears came up or I could use my rain in my leg And I could use that together and that is where we start so here. I use rain and leg so now left rain left leg Right rain right leg. I wouldn't mind his ears to go forward on those people Walking well good enough. I'll take that. I wanted that but he looked over I wanted him to look there, but he looked over here now. How about over here and So see those ears the ears point to where the eyes are looking the eyes are looking at what that horse is most interested in true or false Makes sense if they're nervous they look at it right if they're curious they look at it if you're boring to them And we're insignificant to our horse. They don't look at you. They look everywhere else, right? So it's interesting