Great info, but the video ended mid sentence…a bit awkwardly in my opinion. I would have liked to have heard the rest of the description of the advanced bits.
Hey Lori! I’m so sorry I’m not sure why it cut off on RU-vid, but we have several videos like this inside the Horse Help Club too where we go more in depth like this.
No, the snaffle does not refer to the mouthpiece. You can have the exact same mouthpiece on a snaffle bit as on a leverage bit. What makes a snaffle a snaffle is the cheekpiece. If it's a ring (O-ring, D-ring, Western D, egg butt etc) and the reins attach to the ring, it's a snaffle. If it's got a shank, and the reins attach at the bottom of the shank, it's a leverage bit. To be clear, I only watched the first 5 minutes of this video; if you corrected yourself later on, then let me know in a comment and I'll remove or revise my comment.
