My revelation from today!
Jewel and I have always been able to do a front end turn, but it has always felt like a difficult manoeuvre. The way I would go about it was to soften up her face and put some outside leg on and kind of push her around with my rein and outside leg....
Well today at Tielcey park I was riding around, trying to pay attention to what Jewels feet were doing, I am feeling thefeet much better at the walk, starting to pick which foot is leaving the ground etc.
Then I did Buck's exercise where he picks up the 'inside rein' just a bit as the inside front hoof is leaving the ground, which causes the horses foot to place further in on the circle.
Picture it: I am on a straight line walking, as the Jewel's left hind hits the ground I am thinking, ok the right front is about to leave the ground, at which point I pick up my right rein and take it out to the right a bit, thus picking up the right rein as she picks up the right front.
I played with that a bit, then did this in succession causing her to make a circle as she was stepping in slightly every time.
Then the revelation happened, I was working on moving the front end over and was thinking about the rein to foot concept, instead of my pushing concept. I just backed her weight up slightly and picked her foot up, and up again, and up again in quick motions, which caused her to take her front around her hind... it felt sooooo easy, I had my outside rein and leg there sort of in case, but I didn't need to use them as such.
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