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Summary: Learn how to teach a horse a side pass by Pushing on the hip in this free equestrian video.
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Kelli LaBar Kelli LaBar is a practicing aesthetician and makeup artist in Wilmington, N.C. She graduated from Miller-Motte Technical College as a certified aesthetician, ... read more
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. Another form of side passing you can do that requires a little bit higher degree of difficulty so don't expect your horse to do this on the first try. It is to actually have your horse head bent the way that you are side passing which is a little bit more difficult. So you are actually pushing your horse hip in and it is moving in the direction of its head. So again kind of bump her head in, we are going to bump her hip in and we are going to have her cross over this way. So this is a little higher degree of difficulty involved with this cause horses have the tendency to fall one way or another. So when you are pushing your horse that way it is a little bit easier for them. When you are actually moving their hip around and cocking their head this way and having them side pass to that, it is a little bit higher degree of difficulty. So be patient and take your time when you are working with your horse on this particular type of move because it is not going to be easy for them but when you get it and incorporate it into your training regimen, it would enable your horse to be a whole lot softer, a whole lifter, and a whole lot cadent for individual gates. So that is a another side passes that you can use in your training regimens.