Liberty = Truth · Better Together Horsemanship

Liberty = Truth

The thing I really love about liberty training is the honesty. Your feedback from the horse will change daily, dependant on so many variables - the main one of course being environment.

When we take a horse into a new (most times scary) environment you’ll get pure, truthful feedback about your relationship. When a horse is under pressure (and a strange place is the greatest of all pressures) they will either look to you for guidance or they’ll look for help somewhere else.

This is the main reason I never train in round yards.

Round yards create a false sense of security for us, and horse create a natural sense of safety with the wall of the arena -away from you!!

When you start at liberty it’s much easier for us to use a small yard. But in fact this is the biggest downfall in liberty. If you lose your horse to the outside wall you have created a huge problem - a release of pressure AWAW from you. Any time that horse feels pressure it will just leave. And we see this a lot in competition - when the horse leaves to find safety because the pressure is too great.

This weeks focus will be how to keep your horse feeling safe with you without the need for a round yard. The ultimate in building trust.

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