Hello and welcome to episode Thirteen of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that you can be for your horse.

This episode focuses on our walk and trot transitions, ensuring they are positive, light and come from our seat cues. We talk more about the two leg positions, on the girth and behind the girth.

I find the best way to train both leg positions is using the "Pyramid" pattern from last session. It introduces our inside leg cues one at a time AND one side of the horse at a time. I ALWAYS TEACH MY LEG AIDS ON THE INSIDE OF A BEND before I introduce them to the outside of the bend. This is because if my horse ever overreacts to the aid, they feel they have somewhere to go...... "Sideways is better then up" :P

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

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