How to improve the contact with your horse? | Begijnhoeve | How to #5 

Misschien het gebruik van de achterbenen als motor. Mijn paard gebruikt vooral haar voorbenen 😅

ja hoe je een jong dresuur paard wat een nerveus karakter heeft, kan voorbereiden op een eerste wedstrijd op een ander gebied

Hey, I love your video's! Maybe I get a bit old, but the background music is a bit loud I have the idea. It makes it more difficult to understand what you are saying. Is it an idea to balance that a bit more? If I am the only one who experience that problem, just forget what I said ;)

Ow thnx I will look into it 😊

Het aanleren van middendraf en vervolgens uitstrekken

That’s really good 😊 thnx 🤗

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Thanks 😊

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Graag gedaan 😊

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Ah fijn! Dank je wel 🥰🤠

Super! Congrats 🥳

I think we have one or two How to video’s of Flying Changes. You can find them In the How to Playlist

Thx ! Maybe have a look at the how yo ride a young horse videos ?

We have a How to Playlist. There is a video about the warm up 🤗

@@Begijnhoeve_official Thank you so much for your kind reply! Yes, I saw it actually one week ago or so! In the above video you clearly explain what to do facing different situations. In the warm up video, very interesting as usual, i think you can show us more :) Or maybe the warm up is regarding only what we see. But i am quite sure it is not :) :)

Thanks! Rob and me own this channel. Doing everything ourself🤠. Greets Tommie

In this video I ride with custom saddle ☺️

Looks really comfortable :) Love the videos, making some over here in Sweden.

Well most of the time when a horse doesn’t get soft in the connection the hindlegs are not active enough or the horse runs away from it ….. so I would say don’t mind the front focus on foreward 😎

It’s difficult for me to say without seeing it. When the horse don’t take contact It’s most of the time because the hind legs are not active enough that’s mabe the case with you in canter it’s more active🤷🏻‍♂️ I also like to do some leg yielding in circles to have a better connection I’ll explain in a video soon! 😎

Hi my German is not so well haha but thank you 🥰

Sorry, I thought you speek german as you mentioned the german Term „überstreichen“ as a control of selfcarriage. As I don‘t speak dutch let‘s choose english. It‘s the same with our horses, we have to choose a language they understand to communicate with them🙃 Have a nice day 🤗

Ik ben meestal niet zo van de ophoudingen wat je dan vaak krijgt is dat ze eerder van het bit af komen zoals ik in de video liet zien.... uiteraard zijn er altijd per paard uitzonderingen maar ik heb liever een stille stabiele hand. Als in het halthouden gaan hangen komt t vaak doordat de voorwaartse drang onvoldoende is. In de video over de tansitions kun je meer daarover zien;-) succes !

Good question. Well I think that the horses neck is like the cats tail. So the neck helps the horse to be in balance. This is also I think why it’s so difficult the have and keep the right position of it. What I like to do when asking for more activity behind is doing that on a circle wile doing a little bit leg yield. And also if you lose the balance always go back. So I don’t ask voor more impulsion with taking more contact. The idea is that you ask more activity in the hind legs so the horse can go trough the back in the right contact with the riders hand. It’s difficult to explain here in this writing haha so I might make a video about how we can add more engery without getting a tensed contact. Good one! Thanks for your comment 🤠

@Begijnhoeve , ik ben erg benieuwd naar de video over het creëren van meer activiteit met een GOED contact. Mijn merrie is nogal een heet dametje, erg licht in het contact en voorwaarts. Zodra het wat moeilijk wordt, wordt ze snel vlug en drukt haar tong tegen haar tanden en gehemelte. Ze steekt hem niet uit gelukkig, maar het is lastig om haar weer lekker losjes te laten kauwen. Het schakelen gaat goed.

Hi thnx. Did you see the other videos about warm up and transitions? And what exactly is your question sorry I don’t understand it well 🙃

@@Begijnhoeve_official I saw it few months ago. As you mention it now i will look it again now :) My question is: how do I manage to have a nice contact during the warm up. Conditions are different as the horse cant be in self carriage as u shown here, next to others. How do u face different situations in warm up for contact as you well explained here :) Hope my question is clear now otherwise drop it :) :) I like very much what you say always!! Thank you so much for those precious tips!!! I am riding since quite some time - maybe 10 years or more. The contact is always an issue. Now I bought a new horse, a stallion. Oreo. He is so cute but i think they stressed him evry much in the mouth. So i am focusing on relaxing him, trusting my hands, which are now a bit strong!! I felt off my previous horse and broke a vertebrea. So had to stop for one year. Now I am on saddle again since last week! So i am quite under stress as afraid, yet cant give up the passion i have. So yes, i need to control my hands more then ever, yet he is evry upset. So trying to find nice tips or many things related to this :) Ill go to watch the warm up! Thank you so much for taking time to answer to me :)

@@spaziocasainterioare1656 hi, I read your post and understand what you are saying. Even when you pick up your reins to warmup, you are working on contact. This video is just going more into understanding the contact more, and refining the contact. It isn’t like you are suddenly working on contact, you are always working on it. If your horse is very bad in the contact, maybe going back to working on the ground, to get him to move off your hands so he uses his hindlegs more. Bad issues in the contact are usually from the hindlegs being shutdown, maybe due to lots of pulling on the mouth. Good luck 😊😊

@@minderellafox7906 Thank you so so much for taking time to reply to my post! I really appreciate this! Yes, I understand what you say and yes, i bought this horse, Oreo, a stallion of 11 years old as like very much his peaces. He has such a great walk and canter. He was badly managed and yes, pulling over his mouth. I need to train him again. I am very green like him, eventually less :) I am indeed succeeding as i feel improvement. The contact is a real issue and yes i am working a lot on his hinds legs as he does not use them at all :) So i am very happy to read your answer :) Thank you and keep posting as your site is really nice. I love both the guys as very natural, no faking, loving horses and very good riders!!

@@spaziocasainterioare1656 good to hear it is improving, it just takes time too 😊. Contact is such an evolving thing, it changes as they progress with their training. Yes I love this channel too, such nice guys, and good training 😊

Maybe keep making transitions trot - canter ? When your horse feels good in Canter go back to Trot and when you feel your losing the good feeling in Trot go back to Canter.

Tis Fanatique ja dus helemaal goed 😉😎 Ow ja dat is een heeeeel lang verhaal om uit te leggen, kan je toch best online even bekijken 🤪Samengevat is een Stang & Trens ontworpen om een paard makkelijker te laten verzamelen

Das een goeie haha laat ik t zo zeggen in de proef rijd je ook weinig rechtuit. Dus wanneer t op rechte lijn lastig word zoals je aangeeft dan een volte wijken etc. Ik rijd heel veel voltes!

Als ze zacht worden in de verbinding dan worden ze losgelaten in het hele lijf. Dus wanneer een paard op een eerlijke manier nagevelijk is zal de achterhand beter doortreden en de rug meer swingen.

Vaak zijn ze dan of niet voorwaarts genoeg of ‘rennen’ weg. Als je paard langzamer gaat wanneer hij dat doet moet je voorwaarts gaan. Wanneer ie harder gaat maak je overgang terug. In de video over transitions kun je daar meer over zien 😊

@@Begijnhoeve_official wow wat een snelle reactie! 😊

Go foreward until the horse start making more connection when it gets ‘too much’ than slow down again. See video transitions 😉

Hoi janna goede vraag! Deze was al gesteld het antwoord wat ik gegeven heb kun je vinden tussen de reacties 😊

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Good question difficult to answer without seeing it 😅 most of the time when the horse don’t accept the contact it’s important to teach him that the hand in not to block on but get soft en relaxation. Togheter ofcourse with the tempo Control. I made a video about transitions mabe that’s helpful to watch 😁

@@Begijnhoeve_official thanks, I saw that video; it inspired my question 🤩

Horses are flight animals so in there nature when something is unknown they flee with there head up. If you sit on them for the first time they mostly get tensed and try to run. The bit itself don’t make them relax but if you are a good rider you can use that tool to build confidence and make your horse trust you and being relaxt! When a horse start to relax then they will put their head down. 😁

Goede vraag! Hoe weet je paard bijvoorbeeld ook wanneer je naar stap wilt en wanneer je wilt halthouden? Er zijn meer factoren die mee spelen uiteraard lastig om zo even uit te leggen. Kort samengevat de rest van je lichaam werkt ook door op je paard. Zelfs als je alleen mentaal bijv denkt dat je door wilt rijden ipv langzaam gaan maakt dat al een verschil. 😉

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We don’t always do that it just happen to be that you see those videos. In other videos of us you see we also ride with a snaffle

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