Josh Lyons – Sliding Stops & Rollbacks

Fifth in his teaching series, Josh shares the following topics:

• Improving lightness Teaching your horse the speed you want on-demand
• How to keep the front end in your slide
• Energy in the stop – “Hurry up and stop”
• Going forward/thinking back
• Working the horse’s emotions to create a calm and safe partner
• Understanding the snaffle bit and what it means to your horse
• How to correct and talk to each corner of the horse in the stop and back up
• Rollbacks: what they mean and what they are