My #1 Secret to Improve Your Riding!
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
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Do you ever find yourself getting frustrated because you just can’t seem to communicate with your horse? You wonder “How does my trainer do it!”? Is there a secret to training horses? How do you teach your horse to go forward, load in the trailer, or do a flying change?
In this week’s video, I will be talking about how to train your horse. Because we can’t speak to our horses verbally through sentences and paragraphs, we have to communicate with our aids through pressure and release. The formula that I use to train all my horses is: aid, reaction, release, and repeat.
This may seem like a simple concept, but when something goes wrong in your training, it usually has to do with how you’re communicating with your horse. Horses are incredibly honest and kind. If they are not doing what you want, it's almost always because they don't understand.
- The aid. You ask the horse a question. Will you move forward when I close my leg? Will you bend your neck and move your head towards me?
You start with the lightest aid possible. Apply as little pressure as it takes to get a response but as much as needed. On a continuum from 1 - 10,
I ask with a 2 (about the pressure of holding a small child’s hand). If there is NO response, then I increase the pressure to an 8. I do what it takes to get a response. Then I repeat with the lightest aid possible. It is the repeat of the lightest aid again that promotes good reactivity, otherwise you’re just training your horse to respond only to a loud aid.
- The horse’s reaction. When we give an aid we want our horse to respond. This could mean bending from a rein aid or moving forward from the leg. You need to do what it takes to get your horse to hear you. Often we make our horses dull and unresponsive. You must do what it takes to get a reaction and then reward immediately. The response can be subtle, it can be the flick of an ear or the horse shifting their weight. This is something that you can build on to get what you want. You do this by repeating the aid. Getting a response and releasing. Really observe your horse. Is he paying attention to you? Is he thinking?
- The release. The release is the second half of the aid; it is just as important as the question part of the aid! The release is the exact moment where you tell the horse “this is what I want!” The timing of the release is essential. Release immediately when you get the response you want! The release is the reward. The better you time your release the faster your horse will learn. If you release too late and you reward the wrong thing, you are teaching the wrong thing. Timing the release is the essence of your communication with your horse. For example, if you are trying to get your horse round and they finally lower their head, that is the moment of the release and when you should soften the pressure on the bit. If you miss this moment and the horse raises their head again, then you release, then you’ve taught them the wrong thing - that they get a release when their head goes up! When you are riding and you apply a leg aid, you release the pressure of your leg when the horse goes forward. When I am frustrated that my horse is never going to learn, I am often forgetting the release!
- Repeat. Your horse will get good at these exercises through repetition. When I am teaching my horse, I am looking for 3-5 repetitions where I give an aid, get the reaction, and release. It is by doing the movement over and over again that teaches your horse what he is expected to do. I know I am ready to move on to the next step and ask for more when my horse consistently gives me the same correct response to my aid over and over again...whoops! I went on too long and maxed out the word out for this description! Read the full blog post here: amelianewcombdressage.com/dre...
00:00 Introduction
00:23 My Secret Formula for Training Your Horse
02:22 Forward Aids
04:30 Common Mistakes
08:02 Turning Aids
10:18 How This Works up the Levels
11:56 Outro/End of Video - Zábava
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Amelia, is there a guide book for aids for the movements a person asks of a horse?
This needs to be assigned viewing for every new rider in every barn. And a regular refresher for established riders as well.
I'm so guilty of hanging on the inside rein instead of releasing the turning aids :S Amelia somehow sees all our lessons haha
I feel like Amelia always gives you information that you wish you learned from your instructor that in hindsight you could've saved so much time and energy
So glad you find it helpful!
So sooooo true my instructor literally told me the wrong thing
Just the other day, I confess, I am guilty of the not releasing the turning aids, giving up and reversed directions. Not only did she learn not to turn and that she got a release, she resisted the turn at the very same spot. Unfortunately, although it was my mistake in the first place, I had to apply a kick to the pressure rather than the softer leg aid to remediate. Thank you, Amelia, I really glean tremendously from your videos.
Great stuff. I find it helpful to remember that horses have so much quicker reflexes than us and at times that comes in to play when the rider is to release, to reward a correct horse reaction. If our release is a reaction, perhaps that's too slow, better if it's action. Yeah? Well planned, waiting for the horse to do something correct and super close to that we release. Ppl, including myself, may have unclear aids but even more common imho are unclear releases. You made that clear, I just want to bring up how much smaller in time a correct moment is for a horse than for us.
Thanks Amelia. Great reminder that the release is the aid to teaching the horse.
Awesome!! Thank you evry much!!!
Thanks for making this so clear!
I love this video because I had to learn this the hard way. My horse is green but he’s also very lazy, so I have struggled to get him on the aids and made the huge mistake of nagging way too much, which caused an explosion time and time again. Once you have a horse nagged too much, you really have to start with little things and be even more sensitive than you should have been before. I definitely would recommend never forgetting a tip like this.
Great reminders. Thank you Amelia
Thanks so much for this video.
Good reminders. I have been working with an OTTS for the past year. Trying to work on my riding and training him. It's definitely been a challenge, but when it all comes together it amazing!
I like the ARRR sequence - Aid, Response, Release, Repeat - but wonder if there is value in adding another R before repeat - „reward“. As you say - leaving them alone for a moment when the horse responds the way we want is a great way to reinforce their learning. Thanks as ever Amelia.
Yes, the reward is the release and it's always a good idea to give breaks after you have worked on an exercise.
Thank you!
Thank you so much. I have an new younger horse Q, 7 years but never been trained. I’ve him now for 7 months and I’m riding him with my trainer for about 3/4 weeks. She is doing great with him. But my riding is getting worse. With this video I see that I do not release and give dubbel Messages. He is standing still and going backwards, although we have not teach him that. Also I have trouble to keep him forward. But hopefully with the arrr formule is that te trick.
Oh blimey; I think that is a light bulb moment; I'm sure in my sub conscious that I pull my rein towards me to turn rather than open the rein in the direction I want to go...hence geegee goes slower !!!
Love this, thank you! It would be helpful, for me, when you say, for example, "Use outside rein and outside leg to turn" to specify, leg at the girth or behind the girth
... and how are you using the rein, just increased connection to prevent over bending? Or bringing the rein in against the neck a little? Thanks! I love all your videos, so helpful!
This video will help you: amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/turn-the-saddle-not-the-bridle/
Awesome video! You talked about a free PDF on Ground Manners, but I can't find the link. Could you post it under this comment please? Thanks in advance! Also, loving the Bootcamp so far, you're an amazing person for sharing all your knowledge with us! Much love from the Netherlands!!!💜
Here you go! amelianewcombdressage.com/evaluate-your-horses-ground-manners-o/?General
Hi. This is kinda off topic but can someone please tell me why my horse keeps hollowing out whenever i ride him?? Ive tried many things but sometimes nothing seems to work
Check out this video for help: amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/straightness-identify-and-correct-the-hollow-side-and-the-stiff-side/
Thanks a lot. It will certainly help me out i hope. Ive got no actual trainer so you are one of the only people on youtube that help me out thank you...
The "core" is not described !