Natural Connection
The Whole Truth About Competitive Techniques
Friends… from Uri Peleg, www.uripeleg.org.
This is a somewhat long video about a snapshot of the situation, and about extremely important recommendations regarding riding with two hands and proper leg position for trail riders, as opposed to competitive riders… English and Western riders, those arena riders, are bound by the traditions of English and Western riding and committed to them according to competition rules.
Remember — we have no reason not to need a different position for our legs and hands.
We are free from those traditions…
There is no need to hold with one hand…
Not in order to free one hand to catch calves, shoot Indians,
or behead heretics…
We need to ride in the safest way for us and in the clearest way for the horse.
Leave behind the traditions that dictate these techniques and are demonstrated in the competitive sector, in both English and Western riding.
These techniques “do not hold water” — meaning they will not stop a frightened horse, will not force it to turn exactly where intended, and will not prevent refusal, rearing, bolting, and so on.
Please listen carefully…
What is Natural Connection?
What is exciting about Natural Connection
Foundations of the Natural Connection
Full movie — The Natural Connection – the natural bond
Uri Peleg – Part 4/4 – Natural Connection
The Natural Connection – Road to Natural Connection Series
A Diagram That Taught Me the Structural Similarity Between the Horse and the Human as a Basis for Natural Connection
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.
