Watch how taking off my spurs relaxes my 3 yr. old Reining horse, Champ. Always be mindful of trying different thing in order to get the result you're looking for.
Love this Video! Great reminder for riders to look at themselves first to slow down and decrease pressure on horses. In this rainy muddy mess here in AZ right now I even ride in my rubber boots lol.......keep those great videos coming!!!!!
You couldn’t have been any more perfect with the timing with this video. I realized I’ve been having problems with my horse being animated with everything and it’s because I’ve been riding with spurs. Taking them off was the answer but it’s different watching someone else doing it. You get a much better understanding and much better results as well. I’ve also have been having to do more work with lead changes. Because I bull ride I find myself throwing my hips into the turns and closing up my horses shoulder forcing him into the wrong lead. After watching this video and seeing you do a lead change I finally see how exactly I’m doing wrong. Thank you so much for the videos. Keep up the good work.
This is excellent advice Matt! And timely. I just spent a few weeks without spurs on either horse and it too cleaned up an animated lead change! Got them listening to my seat better and now the lead change still is coming from my seat and not from the spur, fantastic tip! I found it interesting that you take them away the night before the show, that would not be the time I would think to do it but the concept you conveyed makes sense.
This is great! I have a reiner that is very push button, touchy feely, I feel like I am always giving the wrong ques. I will take my spurs off and see how he does. Thanks Matt!!!
I’d like to see you talk about getting a colt to stop free in the front end. Preferably when they brace on their front end. A lot of times I find it varies from horse to horse when getting them to free up. Sometimes it creates a smoother stop, sometimes it creates a longer or deeper stop. I’d love to see what you do!
Great demo. I’ve found this same thing in my barrel horses...especially the feelly ones. I’d like to see a very basic video of how to control which hind foot is planted during a spin. Very basic...my horses are race horses not reiners but I do get them broke and have never been able to get a good explanation for how to isolate each hind foot. Thank you.
I've done that off and on take my spurs off for the majority of my riding in the last 50 years specially bareback.!!🐴💙🥰 And even when I do wear them it's barely a little tap or a role I've never been aggressive with any horse I've ever had using Spurs
Going to give a try tonight. I’m working turnaround drills now and think my phillie could use a little less pressure right now thru these drills. Hope it brings her off the muscle some
With this video you made happy a lot of arm chair trainers, for sure! Joke aside, one still needs to use the spurs for the horse to make a difference between "with" and "without", if for nothing else. In my books, squeezing with the legs means "please", while using the spurs means "please, NOW!". A pleasure to watch your videos as allways, thanks.
When u train the spin....do ever stop forward movement and lock up hind quarters? Some just get a strong crossover and disengage hind quarters i feel whn doing this they tend to get choppy on front and lift head and shoulders.....but foward motion w crossovers to start works best for me
I have a horse with no brakes, do you have a video already or not yet? I don’t like yanking on her face and using a aggressive bit since she’s pretty easy on turns signal wise. Thank you for your time, love your videos!
Hey Emily! No brakes is No good!!! Have you’ve been to my website @mattmillsreining.com. ?? I have hundreds of easy to follow tutorials there like teaching them to stop. Would love for you start the program. There’s a 7-day Free Trial!! 🤙🏾🤙🏾〽️
My question for you Matt.. why do the horses left front knee always has like an ice wrap..I do notice it's on most of the horses..thank you for your time
I have been unable to use sours on my horse she becomes anxious when I use them, how ever when I have spurs on her spins are quicker and sudd passes better, also picks up right lead when asked with a spur not do much with out them. I would love to see a video on getting your horse to pick up leads!
When you say after two weeks you are not sure he would continue to change leads without the spurs - I highly doubt it. My experience with sensitive horses is they crave getting the lightest cue possible and so long as they know what you are asking them to do the cue can be incredibly subtle - but the riders riding style may also need to change for that, such that they get a feel for just how subtle it can be. For my aesthetic I think it is one of the biggest things I don't like about the trends in reining and how it is judged - I would much rather see finesse, harmony and that horse looking like a happy participant rather than having the absolutely fastest, flashiest performance wherein that horse just looks like he or she has just had to become completely submissive (not part of a true partnership) due to all those pressures put on them. One performance that stand out it my mind as close to the pinnacle to what I mean is Wimpy's Little Step winning the futurity as a 3 year old - that was a work of art - it was a flashy performance for sure but with so much finesse - of course, is just also a testament to that horse's greatness. But, in summary, the basic message of this video that often times less is more is greatly appreciated and so spot on when it comes to horses.
Please tell more trainers this tip. My horse's gorgeous palomino coat is ruined with white scar marks on her belly from a bully masquerading as a trainer.
What do you do when you horse looks back to see if you are wearing spurs or not? lol She was a 26 year old Tennessee Walker amateur horse who had more titles and awards than the people who rode her. I always felt she was saying, "Just stay in the saddle and I'll make the magic happen."
I notice that the tail is quite active in the video, an indicator that he's reacting to pain. Horses convey many ways of pain along with their mouth being open because of the bit; in not having soft hands I'm against pain devices period and I already know horses skin is frail and tight to their body- if they can feel a fly on their a$$ then its sensible that their skin a.d elasticity is not as tough like a cow's. I hope the equestrian world changes with the need of spurs and bits. Communicating can be done with out pain compliance tack.
Hi Matt it's Brittney trusz here i live in Australia Queensland I was wondering How do u teach the flying lead change for western pleasure horses I am not sure how I am supposed to do it and my mare likes to anticipate when am going to ask her to do something and how do i get that lope ways slower and has a problem to rush through it to so how do i work on all those things????????? Please help me out matt I don't want to get in a fight with her?????
Suggest that you change up your routine, do more ground work. Do ground work, ride, then go back to ground work, and go for a relaxing trail ride, for the both of you. I've worked with some horses that they have no idea what to do away from the riding ring, and have no idea how to relax and neither do their owners.
@@patzeuner8385 thats the thing when I first broke her in thats all she did was trial ride till she way 3 and now she 4 she just yeah anticipate for the lope thats why her trainer told me just to jog and walk her till she is relaxed and then ask
@@brittneytrusz2022 jogging/trotting is good to calm them down, also do lead changes at the trot. Do figure 8's, large circles at first, then tighten them up. If you know how to post, you will feel the the lesd change and see the lead change better than when you sit the trot. Use hand commands at the same time you do the leg pressure to move the back end. When I do the trail rides I try to find a field along the ride to do ring type work.
@@brittneytrusz2022 you mentioned a trainer, suggest that you listen to him or her and take some riding lessons. You can't suddenly become a trainer because you are watching a RU-vid video. The good trainers have years of riding, and usually someone as a mentor, what is being shown is what you can achieve with TIME. When I say years of riding, that means 6 to 8 hrs every day, 7 days a week, on different horses. If you only ride once a week for an hour or two, that makes you a rider, not a trainer.
Go4 Spark, they actually All don’t keep them down all the time! 😉. I try really hard to train prospects that have level top lines conformation wise. My “ finished “ product always carries their heads where they are comfortable. Trust me, in today’s Top Level reining competitions you can NOT have horses intimidated or tricked. 1st our judges do not reward it and 2nd you can’t have a horse do all of our maneuvers well unless they are confident in what they are doing. Thanks for watching! 🤙🏾💯〽️
I agree with you, they look like beagles, running after a rabbit, nose on the ground. If my horse has her head that low she's usually moving from one good grass patch to another.
Uh also wow you should see what happens at Quarter Horse Congress... its TRAGIC as those horses have been tied down everyday probably for their entire lives 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 those horses are truly lame and it's so so terrible
