How to Stop & Move Backward from a Jog on a Horse

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Hi, I'm Kelli, on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to show you some tips and techniques I use when I'm trotting and jogging my horse. So, the next thing we're going to do is we're going to stop and back from the jog. So let me move here up into a jog. *cluck* *cluck* *Easy* So, when we want to stop, there's two different ways that you can do it, depending on how your horse is trained. Now, if your horse is trained to Squeeze Stop, you can stick both of your spurs in and just stop your forward movement, sit deep in your saddle and they should stop. If your horse is not trained to Squeeze Stop, there's a couple of different things that you can do. Of course, you want to sit deep in your saddle, whoa, and you want your horse to listen to the word whoa as a voice command. Or, if you're jogging around and you want your horse to stop, whoa, you may have to pick up a little bit. Ideally, you want your horse to stop, using the least amount of rein pressure as you can, especially if you're showing. Such it shows a little bit of a greater skill. Whoa, so you should, you don't want to have to pull or jerk too hard on your reins. cluck, cluck, so, once you have your horse stopped, there's a couple of different ways that you can back. She's trained to back off of my spurs, so if I stick my spurs in each side and gently roll them up her belly, she's going to back right off of them. Some horses, whoa, are trained to just really easily back off of a light rein pressure, so if I just apply a little bit of calf pressure and gently pick up, she'll back right off of that. Now if you're just training your horse to back and your horse isn't real skilled at it, you may find that you have to pull a whole lot harder to get your horse to back but and you, it may end up bing a little bit of a tug-of-war. They may pull a little harder at you but, you know, as soon as you get them to do one step, give them, stop, give them a pat, say "thank you", you did what I wanted you to do and eventually, they'll the get the idea of what you're asking them to do. So again, you can stop and back off of spurs, which is really a helpful technique, especially if your horse does Squeeze Stop, by putting in the spurs, you can just roll them and get your horse to back right up. Or you can, if your horse doesn't Squeeze Stop, you can gently pick up, say whoa and then just pick up really lightly and get your horse to back off the bit. So those are some tips and techniques I use for stopping and backing my horse.

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