 Today's exercise is going to be a lateral exercise in which we work on getting your horse Responsive to our leg and rein on a circle moving sideways and forward now At the end of the exercise stay tuned because we're going to do something kind of fun, but that's to be continued As I'm moving around the circle what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be moving my horse in and out and I'm moving in and out around these cones in this instance I'm actually maintaining left flexion and left bend as I'm doing this now an alternative To moving them in and out would be counter flexing which would look like this I go into right flexion and I move him in and Then I ride straight for a couple steps, and then I'm going into left flexion and moving him out I'm asking and releasing with my leg and rain and my I'm exaggerating it a little bit here So that you're able to see but I'm asking and releasing as I'm going through so I ask release ask release Ask release at the walk. There's a bit of a timing and actually let me go straight towards the camera So you can watch this so As he's walking towards the camera, and I'm going to exaggerate But you see those rib cages swinging now again, I'm exaggerating when I want him to go that way I just swing the ribs Over that direction it's within the movement the trot is a little bit easier You can just ask and release because it's shifty 50 and the canter we do it on the up and I'll demonstrate that in a little while But there's the idea of asking and releasing in that moment To get them to move over and if we're in time with their feet it feels so much lighter So it'll make a big difference for you if you think about asking and releasing and it's swaying that pendulum So I swing it over Over and I don't know if you can see that and then when I go this way I swing it over over So as I'm going along I'm going to minimize that now But as I'm going along know that that's what I'm doing. I'm asking and releasing now the easier way to do this exercise is where we go counter flexion move them in and then Inside flexion and move them out. I'm going to demonstrate the more difficult way Which is going to be maintaining the in this instance and maintaining right flexion and I'm moving him out With the right flexion as well as in with the right flexion When I'm moving them laterally oftentimes a good visualization for me is thinking about opening doors and closing doors So as I swing him over I and I actually counter flex there I'm going to open doors this way and Then I close those doors and I open the doors over here and again I'm exaggerating as we as we ride we learn through exaggeration sometimes Especially when watching it's helpful and as you ride you might do it initially where you exaggerate make it obvious for your horse and get that Brain-body connection for yourself So you know how to move your body when you're doing this and then you just start thinking about How little can I do and you make it less and less and less So that's this exercise just at a walk now a variation you could do at the walk Which is kind of fun is you might decide to do it with the cone in between Something a little trickier right so that would be making it a bit more difficult But maybe a little more fun for you and your horse because it's building in that awareness of their feet and where they're at