The lunging was sooo… bad
The lunging was so bad Nareena was often not game to get on.
“Sabbi was a maniac on the lunge. She was bucking and rearing, using her body weight and leverage to shoot off and pull away”. Nareena said
This stopped the day that Nereena and Sabbi had private lessons at home with Melissa. ( Phone Australia 03 51274412) It stopped as soon as Nereena started recognizing and working with Sabbi’s comfort zone and the art of gentle leadership.
This photo was taken at a Spirit of Horse clinic, some weeks later. That’s an intensive four day experience, based on Bobby’s Diaries, that has you progressing at warp speed.
Nareena took a fair bit of convincing to allow this lovely little Percheron Arab cross to have a loose rein. But just look at the result. There’s no maniac here, there’s even a spare hand to be brushing the flies away!
Here in the photo, she has a beautifully co-operative little horse, in the start of self carriage on a loose rein by day three of the clinic.
Nareena will work like this on a loose rein until Sabbi’s back is even more elevated underneath her as she goes deep into her comfort zone.
Then she’ll pick up two reins and start learning how to dance her horse up underneath her. That’ll probably take about … ohhh…. another day or so of lessons when the time is right.
Gee, that’ll be sooo… hard to take.
I used to think that you got a horse moving beautifully underneath you by driving with seat and hands into 2 reins to hold them into that “frame”. I also used to think that you had to be a really talented rider to have a horse working like this underneath you or work very hard or both.
Well, not so. Bobby showed me a very different way to get this lovely way of moving very relaxed, very willing, very quickly.
You’ll see a pattern of photos on this website, where all the horses are moving like this to varying degrees.
See the “People’s Stories” category on the right hand side of each page, for “desperate and dangerous” and “raw blistered hands” for photos of two horses who are just starting to dance up into their owners hands. Mmmm hmmm. Verrr…y nice!
You’ll see some talented riders on this website, but I promise you, I’m not one of them. But I don’t have to be to get what you’re seeing here. My horse freely gives me the gift of the talented rider.
What a wonderful foundation to go on with - to any discipline Nareena chooses. She could take this into adult riding club, into dressage, into camp drafting even. Imagine how much stronger a horse would be for endurance riding if he was carrying himself like this? Imagine how much safer and more comfortable and fun this would be when you’re off on a trail ride?
Bobby’s Diaries - Straight from the Horse’s Mouth to You shows you how to get this lovely soft and co-operative way of going and then how to take that through into two reins with your horse dancing underneath you.
It’s fun to teach this stuff, but crikey, it’s even more fun to ride!!!
