Getting Back To The Basics!
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Getting Back To The Basics!
Now that autumn is almost upon us, you will have noticed through out the Spring & Summer that you have let little things slide in your horses ring practices that should have been corrected immediately! Horses are notorious for taking a half inch, then tomorrow expecting a full 2" of slack! Now is the time to get these annoying habits back underfoot!
Return to the beginning of reinforcement & training practices! These half inch`s include cutting corners in the arena, or not responding to an up or down transition within a stride. Day to day, and moment to moment correction of these annoyances that have developed, will eliminate them. Just as bad habits are gained with moment by moment reinforcement, so too good habits are established in a 30 day period. So for the next 30 days, correct them on EVERYTHING EVERYTIME that it happens. You will win!
