Is Your Leg Aid Broken? Part Two
Is your leg aid broken? This article explores why a generic 'go' signal limits your horse and your riding. Discover the difference between a simple cue and a true aid that communicates with a specific hind leg. Learn how this single change in perspective is the key to unlocking precise control over bend, transitions, and forward movement, transforming your communication with your horse.
Article Summary
This article deconstructs the common leg aid, questioning why we use one signal for so many different movements. It argues that a truly effective aid is not a generic 'go' cue, but a specific communication with an individual hind leg. Discover why a horse that moves from its forehand first can never achieve true balance and why using both legs at once is confusing for them.
Learn the fundamental principle that your right leg should influence their right hind and your left influences their left hind. The full text explains how this specific control is the foundation for everything that follows—from picking up the correct diagonal to creating true bend—and is a core concept of the Golden Thread.
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In Part 1 in Volume 9 we discussed how most riders use exactly the same leg aid for almost everything.
I want you to go.
I want you to walk.
I want you to go from a walk to a trot.
I want you go from a halt to a trot.
I want you to gallop.
I want you to do a shoulder-in.
What we want changes but the aid doesn’t.
Most say that this is fine because our leg aid says go and our hands shape the go that we want.
But there are a lot of different answers that a horse can give to the idea of go.
Forwards, backwards, sideways, walk, trot, gallop, bend -- which one is it that we want?
Don’t you think it would be so much better if we had a better approach than this? One that brilliantly shortcuts our path to experiencing collection.
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