I got an email asking for my opinion on the use of nosebands when working with horses. This prompted me to dig out a post from a few years ago that I wrote on the use of gadgets.
Choosing The Right Equipment
Gadgets in Horse Training
Training horses well is a skill that is learned over a long time. It is not possible to circumvent the process by taking short cuts. The behaviour that gadgets are intended to shape is something that good horse people learn along the way to becoming good horse people. A person cannot learn to be a talent with a horse by resorting to gadgets because they undermine the process of becoming a good horse person.