Leg Yielding to Refine Your Asking Aids in the Saddle

Have you ever considered that, when riding, you have been thinking about things all wrong? You have been trying to move your horse; rather than asking your horse to move. One of the areas I see riders trying to move their horse is when working laterally. Leg yielding is a great example. Riders will try to push and shove their horse across the arena.

You don’t move the horse. You ask your horse to move. If you began to actually implement this in your riding, it has the power to change everything.

Efforting does not equal results. Especially where lateral work is concerned. The key is to have built responsiveness to a point that you can ask a question of your horse, and your horse will simply respond.

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