NAPPING NEDDY, ADVICE/HELP PLEASE?

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Morning guys :) I baught a 15hh x cob in April of this year, he's 4 years old & been broken in now for nearly a year (so i'm told).
He hacks out both in company & on his with maybe a few scares & backwards walks but we're working on that, any advice would be super though?

I recently started taking him into the menage & worked him in walk & trot (he's not been broken to canter yet) now i'll hold my hand up & say i know very little about the schooling side of things, I always had an instructor in to help me with my previous neddys. Anyhow. when i've taken him into the school he's been fine, no monkey behaviour or anything.

up untill now!! Well.. a month ago.. i had my instructor come out & work with me & my new boy as i didnt want to start doing things wrong, first proper lesson he was fantastic! Didnt put a hoof wrong, did what was asked of him & looked super duper! :p

we had our second lesson this sunday & he started napping to the gate when in trot, instructor advised me to make him trot a small circle when ever he tries to nap to the gate.. so i did & he slowly decreased the times he'd try to do & eventually he did 2 or 3 laps around the school without doing it so we ended the lesson then on a good note.

last night i took him in the school & worked on the things my instructor asked me to work on, only this time he's started napping to the gate in walk!! what can i do to stop this? i only have my instructor once every two weeks, but i dont have her for another 3 weeks now as shes on holiday. i thought about turning him in a circle as instructor said to do in trot but if i remember rightly she said to make sure the circle is it trot because if in walk its a doddle for them..

thank you in advance for any replies given.
 
I'll give you the same advice I gave to someone on here the other day. You turn him in tight circles again and again until he goes forward and where you want him to go. It will have to be in walk as the circles will be too tight to do in trot. You circle a few times and then ask for forward. If he still doesn't respond you start circling again. He will get fed up before you do. It's a movement described by Ulrik Schram in his book The Undisciplined Horse . He calls it "The Mill". It is very effective but you should protect neds legs with brushing boots.
 
Might not have explained too well. You aren't really walking a circle. You are just circling. Hope that makes sense.
 
Yes that's about it. Also best to turn to neds soft side ( easier side). Mine bends more easily to the right so that is the way we turn. He was a bit nappy when I first got him but hasnt tried anything for a while now. Famous last words!
 
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