While it is possible to have correctness and mental softness, it is NOT automatically true that one leads to the other. Yet so many instructors and trainers talk as if you can’t have one without the other.
THE HALF-HALT
WHAT I LEARNED FROM LUKE
IS THE HALF-HALT ONLY FOR DRESSAGE?
WHY NOT OUTSIDE REIN IN TURNS
WHAT'S MISSING FROM THE GERMAN TRAINING SCALE?
The ideals of the GTS have a lot of merits and every horse in any discipline can greatly benefit from what it tries to teach. But without the underlying foundation of focus, clarity, and softness which underpin each element, it is nothing more than a series of mechanical exercises than has little benefit and bears little resemblance to good training.