Training a horse to respond to the rider's legs is crucial for dressage, side passing, two-tracking and counter cantering. Break in a horse as they become more responsive to the rider's legs with helpful advice in this video on riding and caring for horses.
With reining horses, and other disciplines also such as dressage, where the horse's responsiveness to the rider's leg is important, we like to, we like to be able to control our horse's stomachs and rib cages with our legs and also with our hips. We do things like two tracking and side passing. It'll also help your horse with the counter canter a lot. It'll help your horse with lead changes a lot. It's very simple to teach your horse. It just takes a little time and patience and not to get in a rush tryin' to teach it to em'. And what we're teachin' em', to move off of our legs. If they move the the second we touch their stomachs we we let our leg go and give that as a reward. The more broke they get the longer I'll hold it on and the more I'll make em' move, but starting off I'm just looking for just those first few steps just to get the understanding.
