Love all of your instructions, you are a great mentor for me as I strive to be a good horseman. This video is FULL of great tips, instruction and advice. Thanks for being a great example of what a horseman should be!
Always so good to see your videos Craig! I’ve learned so much from you and your son-and your various guests. Y’all are true horseman. I live in Ocala Fl, and I’m keeping that tradition alive as best I can on my farm with my horses and clients’ horses/students-I hope the generations to come pick it up and stay with it! 🩵. The ONLY way to ride/train a horse. No matter your discipline.
I'm fairly new to this channel - where has he been? Did he stop doing youtube for a while? I do see that there are a few very recent videos then some that were quite some time ago.
IMHO the best thing for any rider is to occasionally ride bareback or minimally without stirrups. Even better if you can do it without reins. Obviously, a round pen/arena is good as well as putting the horse on a lunge line when no reins. I'm 57 and have spent my life with horses. I started my kids, grandkids and other beginners out like this. Nothing else develops an independent seat better or faster. I still periodically do it myself as it helps fix traineritus. Symptoms are looking down at the horse while riding, sticking feet too far out in front of you, too much slouch. All these things are useful riding colts or problem horses, not so much with every horse. Hope this helps somebody.
How about showing how to get a horse used to the breast collar and rear cinch, for a horse that has not ridden with that equipment and is older, like 24 years old.
Good stuff, I bet that holding the back of the saddle will help, sometimes. You were lucky your horse didn't step on that rein when you dropped it and jerk his head down. That would have been an abrupt stop.
