How can Natural Horsemanship help with leg aids?
The first thing that you must have is a consistent go forward cue. The go forward cue is a very important cue, that in most cases, just doesnt get worked on enough. Because the horse is not taught to go forward you teach it to have a negative attitude about work. To change this, you have to become the bad guy. To solve the problem you have to put enough pressure on the horse to get it to respond and not stop the pressure until you get the desired response. Perhaps the reason the cue no longer works is you gave up or thought that the cue was not working. By doing that, you threw away the cue. Now you have to start over and this may take time. To establish the go forward cue; start by squeezing lightly with your calves. Count: 1001, 1002 and if the horse does not move off use your spur or whip to ask him to go forward with enough energy to go into a trot and travel forward 15 to 20 feet. Remember to stop kicking or whipping as soon as he trots on (release the pressure) by doing so you ar
