 Something interesting happens with these horses. They get to where they say, I kind of like you better up on the mounting block. If I were working a horse on the ground a little bit, and I won't do much, but if I'm working him on the ground a little bit here, I'd get his wheels turning, and I'd get him thinking to himself, Jack, I'm kind of done with the groundwork. What can I do to take a break? So what I would do is keep him moving, and I might get up on that block. Now, the first thing that everybody wants is that horse to bring the saddle over, and yeah, that's the goal, but we don't want that right now. What I want is smooth motion forward, and I don't even want a halt yet. I want smooth walking motion forward. Notice I'm lifting and leading. I'm active and standing tall, and you notice my feet are even moving right now. If you think about it, that's what we did on the ground. The presentation's the same. I'm lifting, I'm leading, I'm tall. I'm moving my feet. Well, don't be surprised when we're riding, and I talk like that too, but here we go. So now I'm gonna settle, I'm gonna bring them forward, and we'll settle, and this is fine. It was okay, I'm gonna say, all right, now let's go forward again. Lift, lead, step up, circle. Now sometimes we'll move that hindquarters and lead the front end through, but I'll tell you something. You can do that, you should all get to that point if you're not already, but you don't even to mount, get a horse to mount. You know what the biggest thing you need is? Forward, and everyone thinks, what? I want my horse to stop. If you get on forward at the mounting block walking, they're gonna give you that saddle eventually, and the thing of it is, I won't pull his nose to me. I'll just settle, my posture settles. When I wanna go, we stand tall. When I wanna stop, I settle. See that? Life down, life up, life down. All right, we've got two mounting blocks, you wanna give that a go? Don't pull their head to you, why? They're rump swings, and everyone goes, and I'm not saying you do it, but I see people do this a lot where they'll pull their head, the rump swings out. I want you to think about how willingly forward is my horse, now something interesting happens with these horses, they get to where they say, I kinda like you better up on the mounting block, you're less work, you know what I mean? Cause if on the ground, if I'm working on a foot, and then I get on the block and they stop, they look at you and they go, get on my back, I like you better up on my back. They really do get to that point. All right, let me show you something though. So if he's, a horse that's sticky on their mouth that bites at the rope, if they're kind of resistant in their head, that's just all you had to do. Just kidding. See? But if they're sticky in their mouth, if they're moving their mouth, if they're jerky with their head or flinchy with their head, they're stuck in their feet and vice versa. If a horse is smooth on their feet, they'll be smooth on their head. Makes sense? That's kind of like that bit thing you asked me about. If a horse is chomping on the bit, that's one thing. But if they're chomping on the bit and their feet get stuck, that's another, see? So now, one of the traps that we have to be careful that we don't get into is, I know it takes a lot of pressure to lead them forward right now. He's not super light right now, is he? So you're having to, like she's having to really lead them ahead. The problem with that is the rump wants to swing out. So what I want to do is I sort of lead them ahead and I push a little float in there. Now look how short my rope is. It's short, right? But watch this, contact and then float, contact. So even on a short rope, we can float it. We just have to soften up a little bit. So believe it or not, don't get mad at me now. Believe it or not though, he was getting a little confused because you were leading them forward but he was sensing, he was bending to you. And you have to give him, there's a point where what you do is you just settle and stand. Well now right there, I should have kept going, there. See how that rope is pretty long here and then touch them. We'll get it, I promise we'll get it, yeah. And you've probably had this before with him and even if we do, he's never done this, okay. So smooth on the feet. No biting at the rope, smooth on the feet and then it's gonna be, it'll be much easier to get him to present that saddle. Now I know I went kind of,