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Today, Max continued his training with regard to voice commands. His compliance is poor at liberty but fairly good on the short lunge. In this series of videos, he is shown learning and practicing lateral flexion of the neck.
It is important that Max be responsive to the lead rope while he is being ridden. While wearing the halter, the rider cannot exert as much pressure on the horse as he can when the horse is wearing a bridle and bit. Therefore, using only the halter and lead rope while bare back is a much more honest test of compliance. It will be important that this horse is compliant at this stage before going further. Full compliance will require the horse to perform lateral flexion with a loose rope. In the videos below, it is evident that the horse is NOT sufficiently compliant.
This first video shows Emma mounting Max from the fence. As you can see Max is very compliant about being mounted on his left side.
This second and third video showcase the lateral flexion that I want to instill in Max. As can be seen in the video, Max is no where near compliant enough. Although he seems ok here, that is only because we are not pushing him. But close scrutiny shows that Emma has to play with the rope too much for me to consider him compliant.
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