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Re: [RC] How should horse back? - heidiWell today, doing some ground work first,it suddenly hit me. He backs with alternating legs, like a trot stride backwards.Sometimes placing a foot separately, sometimes together. So Honey backs both legs on one side,and does it easily and gracefully and on cue. Rascal resists, and is crooked and backs like trotting. Is there a right and wrong way, and how do I teach the right foot placement and does it matter? Farana, the great Kellogg reining stallion, could actually trot backward, and did so at their "Sunday Show" demos. Backing is usually a 4-beat "gait" like a walk--and whether you called it a "diagonal" or a "lateral" would depend on which leg you named first. I would suspect that the issue is more what he is doing with his back and hindquarters than what the footfall appears to be. It sounds to me like he is having problems shifting his weight to his HQ and collecting to back. Heidi ============================================================ Arabians were bred for years primarily as a war horse and those requirements are similar to what we do today with endurance riding. ~ Homer Saferwiffle ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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