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| So there are trainers that teach the teardrop pattern and there are trainers that teach the equal distance pattern. Which do you like best? What do you feel is easier to teach, faster, ect? I just want OPs on the whole thing. Do you think some horses are better at one than the other, some horses just wont efficiently do one or the other- ect.
Also, ways horse work.... The 4wd horses and the rear-endy "slider" horses. I know that the basic idea for turning a barrel is rate, then turn, then go but do horses just kind of turn it into whatever fits them best? How do you specifically teach a horse one or the other? How do you know when 1 style isn't the best for that horse? How do you try the other? lol I have always rated before the barrel, shape, turn, accelerate. Never really noticed too much of a differences in running styles.
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Location: Okemah,OK | I never profess to be an expert but I personally like to teach my horse how to shape his body to prepare for the turn. Not so much with teardrop vs equal distance, etc. (I guess it would be equal distance if I had to name it. It's just that I guess I worry more about body shape than I do distance from a barrel if that makes sense). If you teach a horse how to have forward motion with their nose tipped, ribcage flexed and hip engaged to the inside then you basically just set that horse up to turn. I do teach mine to hunt for a barrel (although a lot of times that's just in their blood) but I use my seat and body to cue them to shape and then my job is really just to help place them in the right spot to allow them to work..... And then stay out of their way. I get a lot of help from people who know more than I do but that's how I like them to be. I have a slight pocket on the first barrel but after that, I almost drive them straight at second and third. They know via my seat and legs and a tip to the inside when it's time to start the turn. I think you lose a lot of time with the old "bump bump bump, shape, step out for your pocket, okay now turn" style but I've been beat by them some too so to each his own.
Edited by whiplashranch 2015-11-10 11:14 PM
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discussion about barrel turning: teardrop, equal distance, 4wd and sliders...