Pulled Into Halt
Everyone who has ridden knows what that phrase means. They know it without being told. And what that universal understanding reveals about how we have been stopping horses is where this piece begins.
Article Summary
There is a phrase so universally understood in the horse world that no one has to explain it. Everyone who has ridden knows it, because everyone has done it. And the fact that we all know it — without ever having been taught another way — is precisely the thing this article stops to examine. Not as an accusation. As a description of where we are. And as the beginning of a question worth sitting with: what would it look like to come to stop with the horse instead of bringing the horse to stop?
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This article is exclusively part of Kjrsos Magazine Volume 16.
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