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Location: Illinois | I will have to work on the pocket thing, that seems to be the most mentioned thing. Like I said I don't believe in a huge pocket I was just told by the previous owner to give her one. I will try running her strait to the barrel like I'm used to and see what happens.
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Location: Illinois | Three 4 Luck - 2014-12-22 2:42 PM
Go take a lesson or 5 and fix your riding. That will fix your horse. It's like magic or something.
That's a bit of a harsh judgement. I have been riding for 20 years, I think my riding is just fine. |
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Location: Arkansas | http://www.conniecombs.com/DrilloftheMonth[1].pdf This is a good exercise |
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Location: Midwest | ShortyHorse11 - 2014-12-22 2:45 PM Three 4 Luck - 2014-12-22 2:42 PM Go take a lesson or 5 and fix your riding. That will fix your horse. It's like magic or something. That's a bit of a harsh judgement. I have been riding for 20 years, I think my riding is just fine.
Lessons are always a good idea if you have the option. There is always something new to learn no matter how long you have been riding.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | ShortyHorse11 - 2014-12-22 2:45 PM Three 4 Luck - 2014-12-22 2:42 PM Go take a lesson or 5 and fix your riding. That will fix your horse. It's like magic or something. That's a bit of a harsh judgement. I have been riding for 20 years, I think my riding is just fine.
Holy hell, I've been riding for 32 years and still get help when I need it. As do the pros. None of us are perfect and there is always more to learn and ways to get better. Not a harsh judgement, just reality. Your horse is making the same mistake both directions...that's like a flashing neon sign. |
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Location: Illinois | Here is a video of the previous owner running her a few days before I picked her up. She doesn't knock the 1st in this video but is there anything you can see that I need to do to keep her going like she is? Anything I am missing?
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Location: Illinois | bgtkt - 2014-12-22 2:46 PM
http://www.conniecombs.com/DrilloftheMonth[1].pdf This is a good exercise
Thank you! That's very helpful. |
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Location: Illinois | And I understand lessons are a good thing no matter how long you have been riding but to immediately assume it is my riding is not a very nice way to come across. |
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Location: Montana | Is she more push style or free runner? If she is push style, are you either not driving her far enough or driving her too far into her pocket? My mare is push style, and if you don't drive her far enough on usually the 2nd you'll hit it coming out. But with my mare that is usually the same with all barrels. Hope that helps. :) |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | ShortyHorse11 - 2014-12-22 2:56 PM And I understand lessons are a good thing no matter how long you have been riding but to immediately assume it is my riding is not a very nice way to come across.
If a horse does the same thing both ways, 99% of the time it's you. And it's the same for all of us, not just you. Good riding is a journey, not a destination. |
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| I think a lesson from someone you respect is far better than asking a bunch of strangers who may or may not be half baked to comment on a horse and rider they have never seen. |
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Location: Oklahoma | After seeing the video, I think your pocket is your issue. |
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Location: Illinois | mtcanchazer - 2014-12-22 2:58 PM
Is she more push style or free runner? If she is push style, are you either not driving her far enough or driving her too far into her pocket? My mare is push style, and if you don't drive her far enough on usually the 2nd you'll hit it coming out. But with my mare that is usually the same with all barrels. Hope that helps. :)
I'm really not sure. She turns without any coaxing or signals from me, she really knows her job but I guess I have to push her between the barrels. I am having a hard time driving her into her pocket before she turns on me. |
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| I haven't ridden a pattern in a year. I wonder why the old owner gives her a full circle around the first but no pocket around the other two? I wonder if there really is something about that side that she is compensating for. (Take this with a grain of salt. My eyes are rusty.) |
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Location: Illinois | RidenFly - 2014-12-22 3:02 PM
I haven't ridden a pattern in a year. I wonder why the old owner gives her a full circle around the first but no pocket around the other two? I wonder if there really is something about that side that she is compensating for. (Take this with a grain of salt. My eyes are rusty.)
I have actually see a lot of people do that, they will come in with a huge pocket on the first and then hardly give any on the second and third. But I get what you are saying it is odd that she would giver her so much on the first and then nothing at all on the other two. I don't know what she could be compensating for though. |
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Location: Illinois | clover girl - 2014-12-22 3:01 PM
After seeing the video, I think your pocket is your issue.
You think less pocket? |
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Location: Kentucky | clover girl - 2014-12-22 4:01 PM After seeing the video, I think your pocket is your issue. I agree.
Start at a slower speed with less of a pocket. She knows her job, you just have to put her in the right spot.
Edited by Murphy 2014-12-22 3:06 PM
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Location: Choctaw, Oklahoma | She is cutting off coming OUT of the barrel??? |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | LRQHS - 2014-12-22 3:04 PM I would just like to state that I am not half baked currently.......but, my friends are :)
Cookies are way better if they're still a little gooey. |
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