Equine Apprentice

Brody says learning to tie is boring 🥱

Exactly how it should be! Now that Brody is officially off stall rest we’ve been able to start doing more ground work. He’s been working on being hosed off, standing tied, letting me lay on him at the mounting block, going over obstacles, and doesn’t care about a single thing.

He turned 2 in June, he’s going to be a big guy!

How much does applied contact / bit pressure affect stride length? …. This much!!!

There is a huge difference to applying contact to the reins VS the horse coming up, through and onto its own contact. Applying strong unforgiving contact can hollow the horse and inhibit the hind leg action, riders often then have to resort to excessive forward to keep the horse going.

The connection from “hyoid to hind leg” involves the sternohyoid to sternum through the diaphragm to psoas major.

To see the videos of this in action check it out on our patreon (this one is from todays live feed dissection).

https://www.patreon.com/bonesbrainsbodiesbehaviours/

First real ride on Louie and all I can say is 😍🙌🏼🤩