Who knows what the one rein stop is

I keep putting this down in my answers and I know there are other names for it. I would just like to hear others knowledge of it and maybe put it out there because its a huge training method that will save your life.

Do you teach your horses how to do it and what are your methods for preforming one?

Thanks!

Yes, the one rein stop to me is an essential part of the training that I do. This is when you slide one hand down the rein and bend your horses neck so that his nose bends towards your leg. At the same time as bending your horse bend your body, not in half, but mirrorr what you want him to do in his body with yours. Looking at his tail and turning your body to accomplish such, not so severe that you lose your seet, but enough so that your body will help his body disengage. In doing this it will disengage your horses hindquarters and a horse can't keep the forward movement happening if his hindquarters are being disengaged.

It really makes a huge differance if you teach your horse vertical flexion. When all it takes is a gentle feel in the rein and your horse will offer thier head to the side. Then even if your horse is freaked out and your have to stop NOW, it is easier to get your horse to disengage and give his head when it has been taught to him as second nature.

It is essential and can save your life! A horse being claustrophobic by nature, if you pull back on both reins, the general tendency for your body is to get brassy and tighten up...legs and all. This causes pressure which makes two things happen. First it causes the claustrophobic horse to feel trapped between your gripping legs and the grip on the mouth. And secondly it actually will cause more forward motion. Generally when someone wants thier horse to go forward they squeeze with thier legs to ask them to go forward. So if you want your horse to stop but are squeezing with your legs that gives mixed signals.