As my movements are now clear to the horse, I am sending out such definite signals that the horse can follow me, and look he does. He will stop, when I stop, if you are whinny maybe to the other horses but he will come with me whenever I move. The leading mare is the horse that serves the herd most. Is this something we can learn from horses?
Now, something is happening that is absolutely decisive for this work and also for the schooling area. All this work here in the arena, all this work here is very important. I don't do it to teach the horse a specific lesson now. It's not like a work of art or something. Nothing is done from an isolated purpose, but rather I do everything in here so that right from the very beginning something changes in the horses psyche and its relationship to me; the human begin.
For example, if I now let the horse go and simply give him the chance to run away and nevertheless he allows me to pick up his hooves then this is something special. Indeed, something very important is happening because the horse knows he can get away. If I now let the horse's feet go and yet he still stays here, then he decides to do that for me. This is the very important point.
In other words, I never do anything in the schooling area as an end in itself, but rather everything I do is done so that it's a part of the whole, part of everything I will do outside the arena or my work outside with the horse for riding, for riding out in the countryside. The way this works is when I come out of the schooling area at some stage, and go into an outdoor arena or out into a field after a very short time, I can put my horse there unrestrained. Then I can work with him.
Afterwards, we'll see that there is never an end to the work done here in the schooling area. I never have to interrupt the seat of the horse, you have done that wrong, there are simply are no mistakes. The horse can go with you, she is without problems. He can go when I let it go. There is no situation where I say, you did that wrong; that could be a mistake.
In this area here and with everything I am doing here, the horse can simply do what he wants. The funny thing is that the work I do here is work I can do with all horses, in other words, I never work on the symptoms. People tell me my horse kicks, my horse does this, my horse does that, it's not really that relevant to me.
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