What Comes After the Snaffle? 

you bet! Im actually planning on a better version yet.

You bet

Thank you I can never remember.

Kimblewick ✌️

@@wolfgangknoll-ev6gl yes thank you

@@HorsemanshipAsAnArt no problem😊

@wolfgangknoll-ev6gl well, Google spells it both ways. The woman who taught me kimberwicke was my first riding instructor and also the coach for the Japanese Olympic equestrian team. I went with her version.

A snaffle can really foul things.

you bet

Thank you

In theory

its a Fresno must have been a bad angle on the camera

Thank you I always forget.

Thank you.

You know I havnt spent much time around gaited horses but the ones I have been around we treated like regular horses with an extra gait. I dont see why being gaited should change the bit, the mouth is the same. I would take a schooling on this from an expert but in my mind a horse is a horse and the gaited doesn't effect the bit.

Thank you. That was my thinking. I didn’t have gaited horses but couldn’t understand the gaited bit concept. I thought it was another gimmick thing.

@@deborahgeorge9170 I should think so. If I have ever seen a gaited bit it was a long time ago and I dont remember.

Your detector is working well

I love it when people educate me on bits.

I just now put two and two together about who you are. Gosh Im slow sometimes.

I actually do love it when people "educate" (inform, contradict, correct, clarify, elaborate, oppose, provide conflicting or enlightening information, et.al) me on any subject, learning never stops if you are open to it.

@@loryspencer8215 The thing is you didn't. Yes that is a Kimberwick cheek with a high Cambridge mouth, I forgot. Did you ever forget something? A Tom Thumb is a specific cheek and its action is different than that of other leverage bits without regard to whether it has a jointed mouth or not. The same goes for the Argentin, it is not a specific bit rather a specific cheek. You could have a spade with an Argentin cheek if you wanted, it would be stupid but it could be done. What else? A snaffle is only a zero leverage bit on an O ring. Ok what about D ring? Egg butt? Done Dodge? Full cheek? Half cheek? I could go on. A Dexter has leverage yet it is considered a snaffle by the Jockey club. A Berry has leverage and is considered a snaffle. If I tie a string from ring to ring over the nose of the horse on an O ring snaffle it has leverage so is it no longer a snaffle? What is it? A strait bar with rings that you drive with is not called a snaffle yet it has zero leverage. Lastly I did forget poll pressure you are correct. Again have you ever forgotten anything? I also like being corrected and educated, I dont like being contradicted. We have had enough conversations over the years that I know you will pick one of these subjects as your hill to fight to the end and I am prepared. Just watch again and you will see I said something along the lines of "in my mind anything with a broken mouth is a snaffle" that is not the same as saying "Anything with a broken mouth is a snaffle". You can call any bit anything you want and I won't care, all I care about is the mechanics of a bit and all broken mouths have the same mechanics.

@@HorsemanshipAsAnArt I honestly think we are saying basically the same thing...in a very round about way..As I stated, I was speaking for myself. I do not pretend to "educate"..or contradict you, of all people. I personally don't have a problem with it..I love to be challenged. Definitions of bits is a slippery slope, but the fact is that when I said a snaffle is a "Ring" bit, (I never said O ring, as to me, that is specifically a loose ring..) what I should have said, is that a snaffle is a Direct contact bit, without shanks....by definition, however, many people identify anything with a "broken mouthpiece" to be a snaffle. I'm not trying to die on any hill here, it's just what I have always known to be true in my (TOO MANY) years in the horse world. Your mileage may..and does.. vary. If someone is in the public eye as an educator, it behooves them to consider the audience/pupils... And yes, I forget daily...hourly, if I am being honest...but I am not putting out educational videos...(Thankfully)