Shawn is actually a really nice guy! I've been to one of his clinics and he was very, very helpful! Definitely teach each of my horses, regardless if they're a reiner or not, some of the things that he taught me
@spudth Also, he's got some pretty nice and helpful videos to talk about how to start your horse doing things like this if you're really interested. It's good stuff.
@spudth He's just taking a few steps to get set up. It would be much much different if his horse was already in the lope and then he broke gait (2pt penalty), but this is just getting the shape down. If he didn't get his horse's momentum moving forward, then he doesn't take the time to get him to shape that way and be certain that he will depart in good form. Granted, I'm certain that Fappani could get him to lope from a standstill, but it's not required or more credit earning necessarily.
@hero8526 I don't understand scoring of reining but it just seems that when he cues for the lope departure with a trained horse it should not take four steps and swing his butt 2 feet to the side. Moving to the side a bit I understand but walking before he departs I don't. Is this okay? It's like in a flying lead change. Breaking to a walk for a step or two is wrong. Just curious, thats all. If my little mare can learn to do this stuff it will be way cool....
@spudth He's cuing with his left leg to get his hip over to the right for the lope departure. He's just setting up correctly so that he'll have a soft form in the circles and the correct lead in the hind end.
Hello, I was only able to capture the first 13 runs. So I missed the Top 3 runs :-/ At the moment, I can't help you any further. I hope someone wants to share them with us.
