How to Exercise a Horse by Bumping Hip to the Left

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I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you some tips and techniques that I use when exercising my horse using Calisthenics. So another good training technique you can use is bumping your horse hip around. Because when you are either cantering or your loping a way that you can get your horse to have really great drive and impulsion from its hind end is to keep the hips slightly canted in. So what we are going to do we are going to bump her hip around to the left right now. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to pick up really gently on my right rein. I'm going to lay my outside leg back by her hip. I'm just going to give her a slight bump and that is going to have her just kind of move her hip around and keep her front end in place. So again a little bit of contact on the right rein, right leg back by the hip, push her, push her around and get her to push the hip around. As you could see when you stop she stops with her hips slightly in so if I did want to go into my lope or into my canter, at that point that would encourage her to push off of the left hand foot. Which would give her the impulsion that she needs to keep a really nice balance to lope. So that would be bumping the hip around to the left.

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