A reader of my short story books (Old Men and Horses, and Changing the Tide) wrote to ask that I post about hindquarter disengagement and forehand yields since they are mentioned in the books several times without an explanation as to what they are or how to do them.
Teaching Responsiveness To Pressure
Learning and Un-Learning
Trust and Obedience Discussed Further
The thing that separates good horse people from second-rate ones, is this idea that the best horse people are always working on expanding the ‘contract of trust’, whether it is a first-time experience or the horse has done it a thousand times. The second-rate horse people are just satisfied with obedience and are okay with a horse working to simply avoid trouble.