>The way you ride and use your body is MORE IMPORTANT than the METHODS
used to train the horse. I respectfully disagree with this. You need to teach the horse the meaning of the cue, which is how you use your body, through training. You cannot expect that your horse will "automatically" understand what you want by NOT using the proper method of training. Given that we do not speak horse language with "the way we ride and use of our body", how can the horse know what we want? When I learned to ride, I used school horses that were already trained. They understood the meaning of my cues. When I got my young horse, I cannot use the same cues and talk to myself into believing that my horse will do the same thing. He knows nothing about the cues. And most of the time I spent with my horse is to "train him" the meaning of the cue.
My 2 cents. HP
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