 With the flake You've got so many different positions. So I mean you might have it like this You might bring it Leading a horse around like this. You might then be able to use it in front So, I mean, it's just sometimes I'll use the handle to take the front end around It just depends and you just have to be good at just Changing that flake up and then sometimes when you need to adjust your leader rope You can just prop it up against yourself start to get that head down and figure it out So now notice the flake how I have this flake So what I'll do is I'll just start to and she's even snorted a little bit She saw it behind me and so what is that thing? But notice when I step to the side see you're kind of offset the haunch ready right there right behind Right hind sale. She sort of offsets So now That's better There she's like, oh you're a real person. You're there And so, you know sort of looking past me there. She looked away So maybe I'll step around and I might just bring that handle right past her romp and walk away See how I did that Halt review this now here. I have a tool to help me. I Can even use it to steady her front end walk past the rear. I need to offset this side a couple times So there it is you can see that left hind leg step under I'll walk right past lay this across her romp But keep keep it going She goes well when you touch me I should stop and I'm saying no no no you keep going when my feet move your feet move It's your romp going Good, and then I just present it the same way Just turn it around so I come past She offsets the haunch. I'll come over the top Then I'll run it past the rear Bring her to me bring it over the top. I Could use it now as a now. I need it to help drive her good come right past the rear bring her to me halt Now because of you know how she looked throughout you or over you sometimes well, she can't look over that flag So if she's looking at me I might let her settle if she's looking at the tractor or the road then I might work that flag a Little bit. Have you have used the flag with your horse standing still? But it's more important to get them used to that flag When they're moving alright, so do you notice how my posture is up and tall and I'm leading up somewhat Well, what now what if I bring my posture down and relax a little bit and change my thought to halt Stop my feet so think of the difference between this posture now I'm exaggerating and this posture here But then when we come up over the top of her that's like a rider up here. Hey, I'm a rider. I'm riding So get her used to that and I'm gonna bring The life down my posture down stop my feet my thoughts come to halt now Which she's gonna find it here in a second and I'm not just pulling her around to a halt I'm letting her find it Good get this side done. All right now. I'm gonna bring her down to a halt. So now I relax Look at that head come down You could do this with a brush a saddle pad a dressage whip a rope wouldn't matter if it's a flag at all She's gonna find that halt here in just a second good so Does that kind of make sense? I didn't just go right at her I as much we'd like to get this forehand working a little better So give me two minutes with her and then I'll hand I'll hand her back and maybe I can get that That shoulder coming through better But I'll tell you the trick to getting the shoulder to come through is in the hindquarters and you're thinking what? But if she can step the haunch over That sets her up to bring the front end across So moving the hindquarters is so important for this because she steps that rear sort of and then She she that'll set her up to kind of bring that shoulder through Couple more times good. That was nice Now she's excited. So I'll lay the flag on her and say hey, you know what? I'll use this flag as like a arm to reach up and rub you a little Now here I might put it under her You might not go here Brenda yet Now some people go, well, what's the big deal, but they don't see very good right there, you know She's trying she's working at it a little forward motion If they don't cross under with their inside hind leg under that means they weren't forward enough So she needs to cross that left hind leg under You need a little forward motion in the mix for that good now take your shoulder back Take your weight back now step across. That's a little nicer Convey a clear idea or a clear intention So if we want move again, you're you're you're thinking I don't need to do any more of these clinics because it's the same concept But if so if I'm walking along I've got movement life Even my posture is up then maybe I just reach up And she's like oh, you're gonna hit me with the rope And just let her come to a halt and then forward motion again, and then I'll reach up I'll try to clear this up a little bit. I can always bend her nose to me, you know So I can always bend her nose to me. So here I brought the life down. I just think about grounding Grounding it out. It's almost like I've got a connection to the rear in the front So here we're walking But here we're gonna halt ready and here we're gonna walk. So I'm gonna stand tall lead I'm thinking in my in my mind. I'm thinking about what I want to have happen ready. Here comes a halt good So the rope lay that rope up there. She's skeptical. I could lay that rope up there and just have her stand still Now you're not just getting them used to the rope So don't don't get the wrong idea because you're not just getting them used to the saddle pad or the flag You're really getting the horse clear on your idea your intention The the rope is just my long arm or the flag is just my long arm, you know, then it's an extent that you got it All right, so now I'm gonna lay it up here now. She moved she even when it runs on the saddle. She's like whoa But she but that's okay. It's a start And if she if she needs to move I might keep it going I'm always ready to bend her nose to me. Hey, you know what when you mount a horse. Are you gonna get on? You might accidentally rub your foot on the rump. So they need to learn we make mistakes accidents happen. Don't freak out Now you notice how I give her a little time to just carry it And not I don't keep swinging it and swinging it and swinging it I might work on the hindquarters here at the same time stepping the hindquarters around Take that down. I'll do the other side. We're gonna get her good here in just a just a minute Oh, she says I don't mind. I don't mind this side as much So that's what I did in the clinic and even oh and she even has a girth on Right and she still feels this rope around her barrel But that goes along with that one time when I wrote her and I said she's got it She's she's nervous about legs on both sides. Remember the aids on both sides. This has a lot to do with it This is good. So yeah, you kind of just you kind of swing it and it'll come under and you can grab it If you miss it, you just just swing it. Yeah, and then try it again. I missed right swing it It wax her a little which is good. It's a handle. I have a handle on her flank or a back cinch And then I'll move a horse along a little bit. I want to halt here I'm gonna hand her back to you in just a second. Now. That's a little nicer You don't have to get it done in one day There notice my feet aren't moving and I'm just sort of I'm my eyes are open So I'm focusing on the whole horse plan. I want to try to get across to her is halt or subtle think of settling in So I want her life there to come down Good good a Walk away. Give her a little break Now one little side note on her When she moves the hindquarters, do you see how she's a little stiff like a board? She doesn't draw her mind. We'll check this out. I'm gonna get her Yeah Let's work on it. That's a little better So watch your ears. I'm gonna have her look to the outside of the ear will go out But her left ear right now her left ear set forward She's bending to the outside, but I'll see if I can get that left ear in on me There it is and then a little more forward motion So the idea is she'd bend in towards me Look give me some consideration. There's that left ear the the ear points for the eyes looking remember Left ear. She's ready. Look it and then I'll back off and she bends better through the body So the race I get a lot of thoroughbreds and they're like that too you ask them to turn and they don't look They just turn on the center and go and they're like a board Yeah, you see that jumping too. Yeah, so can she bend through the body a little forward motion Little forward. Yeah, I'll give her back to you here in a second So right now on this side. She does I'm not getting her to bend in so she's sort of missing that hind end So let's get her to focus on me. There's a change there Move the hind back off