Notes on Nico

[shoveltrash]

i'm very pleased!  thanks Heather - without EE i would never have made this discovery.  i will by no means 'master' it, but as you say it gives me more tools to put in my tool box for horse training .

You just lift till he chews and release?

  yep.  and he DOES!  did it again today, at first with very little response, then more and more.  i hopped on him bareback and did the same in our barn aisle mounted (things are SO MUDDY here that it's impossible to do anything else right now).  success again!  very happy horse.

the only 'i don't know what to do' part is this:  when i get flexion right or left, he wants to TURN when i do it  .   any thoughts?????

[tollertwins]

Work on the inside first - stand behing his shoulder. If he turns - you just go with him. Release for any 'softness' to the bridle w/o turning.

At least that's what I've been doing......again - partly for the one rein stop set up - but it carried over well. He'll do both right and left from the outside pretty easily now.

Weather here hasn't been cooperative either...and I don't even have an aisle to work in..