AShetlandBitMeOnce
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Bit nervous about sharing a video but thought it was something a bit different for the forum! Dex and I have done groundwork since the day he arrived, but in the last couple weeks I have been training him at liberty - mostly for fun, he likes it and it's exercise for me too - so I thought I would post a video because Im so proud of him!
Please excuse the big puffer jacket which makes me look like a behemoth of a woman, my constant clicking which is a bad habit, and his roller, I started the session with some long reining and did some liberty stuff as a spur of the moment.
So quick run down of what I am trying to do - first is some baby leg yield, only really in the last stride does he step under, hence the reward. Then I am trying to get him to adjust himself within the trot based off my body language, so some more 'active' trot followed by the baby beginnings of a bit of collection (which at this point is just slowing down really, I do realise), then when I stop and put my hand up that's his signal to move toward me and line himself up like he would if I was to be getting on him. He also has a pretty established 'woah' which is stop, as you can see when he offers canter and I wanted a trot. When I throw my arm toward him I am just asking for a bit of space.
I like to think he's having fun and engaging the baby brain, I certainly am
he's so clever!
Please excuse the big puffer jacket which makes me look like a behemoth of a woman, my constant clicking which is a bad habit, and his roller, I started the session with some long reining and did some liberty stuff as a spur of the moment.
So quick run down of what I am trying to do - first is some baby leg yield, only really in the last stride does he step under, hence the reward. Then I am trying to get him to adjust himself within the trot based off my body language, so some more 'active' trot followed by the baby beginnings of a bit of collection (which at this point is just slowing down really, I do realise), then when I stop and put my hand up that's his signal to move toward me and line himself up like he would if I was to be getting on him. He also has a pretty established 'woah' which is stop, as you can see when he offers canter and I wanted a trot. When I throw my arm toward him I am just asking for a bit of space.
I like to think he's having fun and engaging the baby brain, I certainly am
he's so clever!
