Ken McNabb: How to Ride Your Horse with Light Hands | Learn Shoulder, Ribcage & Hindquarter Control
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2020
- Join Wyoming horseman Ken McNabb and one of his favorite horses in the world to learn a lesson in “light hands.” How to ride your horse totally relaxed with light hands.
KEY POINTS IN THIS EPISODE
-Legs are key factors in light hands.
-Light doesn’t mean you won’t add pressure. It means you won’t jerk, tug and hang on your horse’s mouth.
-It is important to realize your hands are the single most aggressive tool you can use.
-A common misconception that people often have is just because I am riding in a snaffle bit I have soft hands. Or just because I am riding in a hackamore my horse and I are soft.
-Learn how to “give it back” to your horse (give your horse slack in the rein when you can). Use your body more to ride. Learn how to move the ribcage, shoulders and hindquarters with a light rein to gain total control of the horse’s body.
-Learn how to stop not only off of your bridle, but also verbal “whoa” and seat! All combined will make a much better stop and lighter hands.
Until Next Time, May God Bless the Trails You Ride ~Ken McNabb
This video is great! I interact with lots of young inexperienced riders who don't understand soft hands very well. This video explains it so clearly!!!!
This is great. Yes, def should be able to turn ur horse without ur reins. I realized that they have to learn to bend first-just bend in a circle with basic training-even lunging-this takes time but once your horse gets it it makes you and ur horse so connected.
This is very clear and representative of how light horses are and can be, and I think this applies just as well to english riding where you either have to have contact or you'll get disqualified in dressage, and in jumping where you have to have some degree of contact to safely get the horse upright enough to jump without tripping or throwing down poles left and right.
Makes a lot of sense. Trying this tomorrow with my gelding.
Great video and instructions. Just what I'm looking for!
Thanks for that lesson. I need to practice those exercises
Glad i found this. I remember watching you on RFDTV years ago.
Your great I got a lot of good ideas on these tecniques thank you so much.
Fantastic
Really nice- thank you
That's a really good example of a reverse arc. I've been learning this in my western riding lessons. Not that successful yet but I'm going to try it again my next lesson. (my lesson horse is a very well trained cutting/reining horse so I should be able to do it!) This has been a big help. I've also ridden in my lessons with no reins and only body and leg control. This has made me want to do more of this. I'll speak to my instructor next time I go!
What if a horse doesn't know those feet positions of shoulders and hindquarters and means to move those over?