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Erik Schooling Thomas - Jan ‘19

Name: Erik Schooling Thomas - Jan ‘19
Uploaded: 2019-01-19T14:26:43+00:00
Duration: 30 s
Channel: Boyd Martin
Description: Erik Schooling Thomas coaches a rider on using a longer rein to improve the horse's reach and straightness. The horse engages its hind legs better and…

19 Jan 2019 · 1 min

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Erik Schooling Thomas coaches a rider on using a longer rein to improve the horse's reach and straightness. The horse engages its hind legs better and stays straighter, while the rider's balance shifts with the longer contact.

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We have difficulty now and trying to do that with a longer rein. Same feel, same connection over the more natural neck. You saw the neck before was just a little bit tight, short. Now he's reaching in a better way. He's still staying super straight, stretching the right way. But most of all the boy.
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So in the end you hope that they say, like, well, this is a nice place to be, so I'd rather be here than dicking around.
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Changes a little bit. Locking on the right, the left stay on the hind leg locking. So there's self marriage.