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OK - dont laugh - what do you teach riders to do with the "spare" loop of rein? I've just taken over from another AI and all the kids toss the spare loop over to the inside as well as changing the whip when they cross the centre line! They look like they're doing their knitting!
I hate to contradict another professional, but I've never seen this before in my life.
Has anyone come across this before? Am I missing something? Is this the new way of doing things? Or Is it me?
 
How peculiar! I've never seen that before.... I teach all mine to tuck it out of the way on the left hand side of the neck and leave it there!
But then you do see some VERY strange things...I had to teach a woman on her own horse the other day, and he was called "Foetus". I kid you not.
Foetus the horse.
What is the world coming to?!
 
PMSl! Foetus? :D

I've never been told what to do with the rein tbh, I just chuck it wherever is comfy and out of the way! How strange....
 
I dont teach anyone to do anything with it and it would never have occured to me to have done so = but myself, when showing, I flick the "spare" bits over to the outside so it doesnt clutter the judges view.


Interstingly, having read the above - I "naturally" lob mine to the right, and when I put them to the left it feels very strange!
 
Starzaan said:
How peculiar! I've never seen that before.... I teach all mine to tuck it out of the way on the left hand side of the neck and leave it there!
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I was always taught and find it comfy on the right hand side of the neck maybe because I'm right handed.:confused:
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FRESHMAN said:
Changing the whip over is donkeys years old, & done in such regimental fashion. Never seen the point in it myself but many moons ago it was regularly seen in equitation classes at RC level.
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I think the poster meant the reins. As in when changing the loop of rein over aswell as changing crop/whip hand over.;)

They do still teach to change the whip hand over
 
I was once told that I should have the loop of the rein going between my rein and the horses neck rather than hanging on top, but I think the reason was so it didn't rub on the reins, nothing to do with easier riding!!
 
Seriously old school! Switching the whip is still routinely taught (although with the proviso it's in the "appropriate" hand for the situation) but switching the bight of the reins (yes, the loop has a name :) ) is something I haven't heard about for ages and even then, I think I've only ever seen one person that actually taught it, in the very dim recesses of my childhood. I'd guess it comes from calvary teaching but now I'm curious . . .

"Foetus", eh? Yikes. Any explanation for that?
 
velocette said:
I was once told that I should have the loop of the rein going between my rein and the horses neck rather than hanging on top, but I think the reason was so it didn't rub on the reins, nothing to do with easier riding!!
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I think this is to do with not interfering with the horses mouth some of them dont like the weight of the rein or the vibration going down the rein,so better between rein and neck:D:D
 
Apparently, Foetus was a "darling home bred" who was chatted to regularly throughout his time in the womb...and referred to as "Foetus", so....they decided it would be (and I quote) "charming" to allow him to keep that name!

The worst part was that he was a STUNNING horse, but I couldn't keep a straight face whilst asking her to do anything...so had to start muttering and doing a Phoebe (Friends...the one with the Christmas song...watching it now as there is an air raid siren burglar alarm going off at the manor, and the silly sod has left for a holiday in Switzerland without telling anyone how to turn it off...so I'm slowly going insane) whenever I said his name.
Poor pony!
 
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