Where are your "brakes"?

I use my seat, my core, and occasionally a subtle rein aid - to aim the ****** into the nearest tree...

Mostly - my brakes are hanging in the tackroom
 
Last edited:
Auslander said:
I use my seat, my core, and occasionally a subtle rein aid - to aim the ****** into the nearest tree...

Mostly - my brakes are hanging in the tackroom
Click to expand...

PMSL! :D

My brakes? Well, they are sort of everywhere, but the emergency brake no 1 is ''woah'' and I teach my horses very early on that it means stop, this very second; emergency brake no2 is anything that will work, including hauling back on the bitting gear.
Shoot me know.
 
all of the textbook answers first -

Training.
Thought, breathing, seat, legs then rein.

For jumping, especially XC, the cheltenham gag and a wing and a prayer that she is in a good mood (ie, paying attention!)


Finally, if all the above has failed....


Foxhunter49 said:
"Whoa whoa, WHOA Stop you b*gger, stop!"
Click to expand...

and I have had to aim at a tree once or twice on Somerford Farm ride when she has ******ed off up the one way bit the wrong way ignoring my protesting. That would be the day I forgot the gag....


Ps, I once found my self hanging around her neck with my ankles above my ears post XC fence, with her locked onto the next fence and hurtling at it. I did manage to slow her down to a trot with my voice, in lungeing mode going "trot"! Managed to upright myself somehow and carry on!
 
Billie1007 said:
When hacking... On the way out - seat :) on the way home - core and seat and reins :D
Click to expand...

This. Well, sometimes I forget and rely too much on the reins, forgetting that my horse is so well trained (not by me of course) that she is much happier when you engage your seat too, she also does voice commands, but if she's really excited she kind of pulls the reins out of my hands and it's hard to get her to listen to me,
 
Last edited:
definitely in my hips first, then my voice, and if needs must, my arms. we do have a lot of exciting moments, but I'm too busy laughing to get myself together, and by then he's run out of steam.

Alternatively, I fall off (we are bareback a lot), and he stops beside me to eat grass and say sorry, he got a bit feisty...

Do we head for the dog house as a useless equine couple ?
 
In an arena doing flatwork - seat, In an arena jumping - seat and reins.....

On a XC course/at the beach/hacking out - a different Bit, seat, reins, voice and if all else fails the nearest, biggest, most solid object (thankfully that has only happened once)
 
On Louie its in my seat and core.

I think someone actually forgot to install brakes on Andy when he was born. Brakes normally consist of a non-jumpable object.
 
LOL Definitely not in the bit....I ride bitless (rope hackamore) also not in my seat.....I lean forward to much and even when upright I fall forward when horse slows/stops!! So it must be in the brain - both horses and mine!!! Using one rein at a time rather than both, so I get flexion that will escalate into a hq yield/one rein stop!!! And I might add I ride a 'mad' 'sharp' Arabian!!!!
 
Training , to the voice to,the neck strap , to the seat , to the body position and yes I'll say it when galloping downhill in a group out hunting or advanced eventing a very keen horse the bit .
But the best thing you can do to be able the stop your horse quickly is to voice train it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top