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Re: [RC] question about hackamores - m l

People need to use some common sense.  Great points.

Lindy
--- Charles <cdy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If I'm wrong, I hope someone corrects me.

1) It doesn't work by cutting off the breathing.  A
good hackamore should
not cut off breathing at all.
2) Get a new instructor.  Bitless bridles aren't a
matter of experience or
only for experience riders.

As far as I can tell, bosals, hackamores, bits,
bridles, etc. are all tools
for communication with our horses.  The bit puts
pressure in various parts
to the mouth to tell the horse what we want them to
do.  Horses don't
automatically do things just because there is a bit
in their mouth, they do
it because training has taught them when they
receive pressure in a certain
way, they should react in a certain way.  Hackamores
put pressure on a
different area.  The bitless bridles do it somewhere
else.  But no matter
what device you use, it is a communication tool (I
watch western riders who
get a horse to turn by neck reining).

As for "stopping power", it's a myth.  Horses can
run away regardless of the
tools being used.  They can bite down a bit that is
bothering them.  They
can ignore what the bit is telling them.  If the
horse doesn't want to
listen, it won't.  (I spent a day doing circles in
an out of a field because
my horse would not go down the hill in his pasture).

Use the tools you like, and that you feel your horse
likes best.  If the
instructor doesn't like it, too bad.  (It also
sounds like she has a problem
with Arabs).  The instructor should not be scolding
you.  You have hired
this person to instruct you.  Scolding has no place
in the instruction
process.  The instructor should give you the
information for you to reach a
decision on your own and then respect your decision.

Ultimately, it all comes down to you.  How do YOU
like the bitless bridle?
How do YOU think your horse likes the bridle?  What
do YOU want to use?

Charles


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LTYearwood@xxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:37 AM
Subject: [RC] question about hackamores



Hi Everyone,

I had a lesson with a dressage trainer tonight. I

was hesitant at first

because I had had a lesson with her a year ago and

it didn't go well -- I
think I

was such a newbie I couldn't understand much less

retaian anything she was

saying.

..

She HATES that I ride in a bitless bridle. In

fact, she can't believe I

haven't been seriously injured. She says I ride

far above the level I'm
really at

-- that people with 10 years experience don't ride

in bitless bridles on

Ay-rabs in the forest (I've been riding for about

a year and a half).


So she recommended a hackamore. Says it's better

than the bitless I have.
I'm

feeling a little scared after all that scolding

and I'm also feeling like
I

need to learn more about the hackamore. So I'm

wondering if anyone out
there on

this board can recommend anything to me.

Don't hackamores work by cutting off the

breathing?


Thanks you guys -- I always learn from you.

Lori





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