Ahead of the upcoming videos, some of which will deal with how we create a steering style that is characteristic and suitable for trail riding—as opposed to the steering commonly used in the competitive world—I am presenting here a diagram that has taught me a great deal about horses and their response to the points we press on different parts of their body in order to receive a desired reaction, in steering for example.
The steering I propose is steering with direct rein pulls, and consequently also the placement of the legs in positions different from those commonly used in the Western or English worlds, which will cause the horse to move its shoulders following its head in a turn or side movement, to the right or to the left. And this through our hands and our legs. (I will show this in the upcoming videos.)
This steering will solve countless problems that arise from steering using “neck reining” on the trail, in all its forms—a technique that is characteristic of and copied from the competitive riding arena.
As preparation for the next videos, I am publishing here a diagram of a human skeleton inside a horse, which has taught me so much about the absolute similarity between the horse’s responses to pressure points on its body and our own responses to identical pressure points on our bodies.
