We have the story that to advance with your horse to make him do what you want him to, you need to close every single door, but one - leaving only one open that he has to step through. This narrative taken up by many just because it sounds so logical.

In effect, you give him no choice, blocking him from every direction but one, by applying your aids a certain way and he has to do what you say. It's almost like we're trying to squirt them out in this one particular spot to make him do what we want.

As if he is a tube of toothpaste.

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