There is no such thing as liberty training. It’s a myth. All training imposes limits on a horse’s freedom to do whatever it chooses. True liberty training, where there are no restrictions on a horse’s choices, does not exist.
My point is that it is the way you ask a question the first time that is important. You must always present your first ask in a way you want it to be in the future
Another trainer asked me why I think riding a circle with balance and precision is so hard. It’s a good question because almost nobody rides a perfect circle.
I believe that many horse people suffer a severe affliction, a curse if you like, that dooms them and their horses to ordinariness. I call it exercise fixation.
This post is a bit of a snooze so I apologise for that. However, the subject came up recently in conversation and it was suggested that it is such an important concept that I should write about it.
Feel needs to be learned. Students don’t learn feel from a trainer. They learn feel from a horse. A trainer can help you learn what to look for in a horse that is responding to good or poor feel. But it is the horse that is the teacher.
