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Who knows what the one rein stop is2007-11-24 21:22:58

In my opinion the one rein stop is the only way to go.

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I've heard of it, alot, but no one has ever given me an understandable explanation of it.

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i was trying out a horse once who was really nice, and the owner said i could lope her if i wanted. so once i started loping she took of like a bullet determined to kill! i was so focused on trying to stay on it wasn't even funny. i finally managed to slow her down enough and a nice man that was riding nearby caught us. once i got off someone told me about the one rein stop. i was like that would've been nice to know beforehand!

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The one rein stop is disengagement of the hindquarters.The one-rein stop performed correctly begins with you reaching down until the rein is quite short. You then bring that hand upward while dropping your elbow towards your hip on the same side, and place your same leg on the horse's side with just enough pressure to get him crossing his hind legs on the tiny circle you will be describing. It is extremely important that you don't cross your hand in front of your body. Not only will the horse bend in his neck instead of his withers, but if done suddenly, you run the risk of flipping the horse over.

Once you are circling, and are certain that your horse is crossing his hind legs if you're not sure keep the pressure with leg and rope on until the horse yields to the rope. You will feel like the rope is suddenly light, or it will have slack in it. IMMEDIATELY take your leg off the horse. Hopefully, the horse will stop circling and end up standing balanced with a soft back. If he just keeps circling, try saying "whoa" to help him understand what you want. If he just keeps going on and on, put your leg back on, then remove it again and repeat "whoa". DO NOT pull on the rope. He must stop from the removal of pressure from your leg, and the balance of your seat. Most horses at this point will stop, but will go back to leaning on the rope. There are two yielding motions that the horse must make. The first is in the head and neck. When he makes the first motion to give to your hand, you reward him by removing the pressure of your leg. He must give his head again at the halt to earn the reward of your totally giving that rope a lot of slack. Once he understands this, you must make sure that he doesn't just bend his neck around and still stay braced somewhere in his body. You can tell if he's doing this if he feels rigid anywhere. If that happens, no matter if he has his nose on your knee, use that inside leg to get those hind legs crossing again until he softens that rigid part. Then repeat removing the leg, waiting for the halt and the give of head, and immediately give that rein freely. Doing this at the walk is fairly simple, but can take a lot of trust to do at the trot and canter. Well that is my method.