Akane, that is the difference in training and riding of different diciplines. I can not stand a horse that stops square. I hate a horse that stops with their front knees locked on the front and jars your teeth loose. I want my horse to stop and whether I sit there and wait (like I edited to clarify in training we sit and wait before moving) or whether I want that horse to go a different direction immediately. The waiting is important. I have fixed a lot of horses with no stop because people do not put enough stress on it. I work on fixers a lot and I train horses to work or trail ride. If one leaks out of the stop with me I back and back....and I repeat the info stated above. Cannot stand a horse that doesn't stand still. Backing is also a form of gaining a horses respect. My children train shetlands for children's riding ponies. They MUST have a stop on them and once they go on to new homes, they do very well. They use the same method. It is a way of fixing problem stoppers and a way of teaching a working horse for a ranch. It is NOT an English way of riding or stopping, but then I have done my fair share of that and hated the stops on them.
I liken it to a ballet dancer ..... was for many years when I was young ..... You should never stop on your heals as you are not ready to go anywhere to the next stop. You must keep your weight forward and ready to go so that you do not miss that beat as a shift in weight to get off your heals will put you behind. In horses you need to reverse the heals and toes concept as their movement comes from the back half and not front. As humans we balance better with our weight forward...in horses opposite. If my horse has to move out after a cow, I sure as heck don't want him with his weight sitting on the front end.
Also I do not ride with a whole lot of contact on the bit with my horse/s. I hate hanging on a horse's mouth and most times my reins are very loose. I ride with my seat and when I do touch the rein to ask something I don't usually have to do much. I find horses that need a lot of contact are heavy in the front and less agile as they have their weight in the wrong place. Many ropers and barrel horses tend to be that way. My Dressage horse was that way. AGain a difference in diciplines.
I liken it to a ballet dancer ..... was for many years when I was young ..... You should never stop on your heals as you are not ready to go anywhere to the next stop. You must keep your weight forward and ready to go so that you do not miss that beat as a shift in weight to get off your heals will put you behind. In horses you need to reverse the heals and toes concept as their movement comes from the back half and not front. As humans we balance better with our weight forward...in horses opposite. If my horse has to move out after a cow, I sure as heck don't want him with his weight sitting on the front end.
Also I do not ride with a whole lot of contact on the bit with my horse/s. I hate hanging on a horse's mouth and most times my reins are very loose. I ride with my seat and when I do touch the rein to ask something I don't usually have to do much. I find horses that need a lot of contact are heavy in the front and less agile as they have their weight in the wrong place. Many ropers and barrel horses tend to be that way. My Dressage horse was that way. AGain a difference in diciplines.
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