 There let him think You can play with that. All right. Oh, that's looking good So as I pick up on him started getting ready for that movement eventually though I'm like watching his eyes because does he do that a lot does he blink like that a lot? Okay He blinks. He blinks a lot a lot more than I notice other horses sometimes and and that's good. So what'll happen is he'll start to relax because of this and He'll say oh, I can use this part. It's almost like when you when you have a tight Let's say have a tight neck and you stretch it out feels much better Yeah, I noticed that and What's kind of cool about these things is when a horse is tight in the pole When they're tight in the pole, they're on the forehand So when you're riding him and he's tight on the pole. He's pushing on the bit He's on the front legs see and the other here's another interesting thing as riders We tend to bend their head really far. I overdo it too. I over bend. So we're making a circle to the left Let's say we bend their head too far when we do that It actually puts a lot of weight more weight on their front legs. So watch this if I bend his head Can you see how he's standing heavier? I'm taking his head way around to the side. He's got got to stand on the front legs Now when we and that would be like bending over bending when we work on just flexion He's actually going to get off The shoulder. He's going to get light in the shoulder What's going to happen is it's going to go through his body through his structure And so like you'll notice there the weight goes back Now did you see how he was just about to take no treats? He was just about to take a step back And i'm not even asking for backup. What i'm asking for is that he just flexes And pretty soon the head comes up So that's why in dressage We talk so much about flexion And remember that flexion is just less now. I'm still probably bending there notice he backed up tucking the seat under Okay, that's really important There's two halts, and I know we're going to get moving in a little bit, but picking up on that rain That feel it's like a handshake. How well is it received? So if I reach for deb's hand and she slaps my hand Look at her Look what he's his handshake to me is It's okay. Um He's the a nosy So it's if I reach for you Do you receive that handshake? Oh, it's a good handshake when you when you're going down that rain That's meaningful They've got to be light if that that is so important that if they don't get soft for that if they're bobbin and pullin You're gonna and you're not and they're on the front end and the whole time riding you're gonna get them on the front end They're not soft. Yeah, this is about lightness this clinic So so now you can hold the would be what the horse would do on his own So instead of taking his spring and scrunching it up like this What you really do is you open up the spring And you it arcs so you actually stretch the horse and he sits back All right, we're all gonna do that right now and you're like, well, that's how do you do that? I'll show you I'll show you ways we can do that Um, I'm gonna pick up if they get ready buddy get a soft feel ride forward I might trot just a little bit. My horse is like, I'm happy standing in the herd. So maybe I trot Go up here He stretched a little Come back down. Now you could walk down Do you see his rump come under? Oh And then at the base of the hills an easy place to trot So Hey sherry your horse is tucking his nose nice And you're light. Yeah, I'm proud of you Hill works awesome. We're gonna oh man If I can my first ride them on hills Yeah jumping Poles are better than nothing. Yeah Poles are better than nothing Transitions we're gonna do that in a second Transitions are something nice job sara. Come on down all right Kind of fun, huh? So if I just if I just push on you right there You decide you're gonna do something about it. Didn't you I pushed on you and you go and your horse goes We better get out of here. That's what he's saying right now. We better go this guy's weird But when I pushed there, so what did you do? When you go down the hill with the horses you're walking down a slope a hill What happens is we feel them get on the front legs and tip forward we get a little nervous You talked about that a little right and then what we do is we automatically we all do this we go Well, okay fine that You're still pulling or maybe maybe possibly Well, yeah, so here's the thing when you pull on the reins going down a hill They can only bulldoze through that through that to get down the hill get it. They can only counterbalance you Can I show you now you all did? Oh They can only go forward more Because like just like she wouldn't let me push her out of the saddle So that's a kind they have to counterbalance that yep got it I'll show you good questions. So sherry's always like what should I do and I like that that you do that because it I'm always talking about Don't do this don't do that and it's a good point. So let me show you what you could do So coming down the hill if I wanted to halt I would just do my half halts in my thigh. I'd go or watch my reign See the give Now that represents halting or slowing down So if I if they're going a bit fast down the hill, I'm going to ask give ask give ask give Got it. That's always more effective than holding but the theme of the clinic is dressage naturally It is not natural for a horse to ride On a flat sand arena its whole life Get it If you guys can add a little bit to it by the way, then go like this give the horse a little more to to do Make him use his body. Don't brace your shoulders. Let your horse follow along with his herd He's a herd right now. You know what I mean? He's with a bunch of good horses right now So as we come up I'm going to yell now. So as we come up here You