How do I find a Horse to spin?
that looks SO COOL~
is it hard to learn ?
(i am a very beginner)
To have a horse spin obedient, you use your opposite leg to "push your horse over and spin - but this takes a well trained horse thats trained for leg pressure. Some horses do not know what this manner, or werent taught what this means so they will just hoof it thinking your asking them to move foward.
Most horses, will need some guidance. My horses Oscar and Pie, will both spin. Oscar will spin with just leg, But pie wishes some direction and i also use rein to neck rein him. But, my horses were both trained by my mom and both respond properly to leg pressure.
I have my antediluvian pony at her place, and i remember riding him when i was younger and he was sort of dead to the leg. He would be in motion but wasnt properly trained leg pressure. He was a beginners horse and he wouldnt know what you were asking him of if you did this next to him
First you hold to start with a rollback.
It is very easy to work on near your horse.
1 work along the fence in one direction. Starting off contained by a walk.
2 Stop and ask the horse to back up
3 While backing up turn the horse into the obstruction. This will cause the horse to gather under you drop their front lapse and rollback.
On a proper rollback the hind foot on the inside of the turn should plant and pivot on the turn.
Once you horse gets the 180 rollback down, you ask the horse for the other 180 and the same rule applies. You want the horse to gather up underneath you, with the inside hind foot as a pivot. And the outside front foot should cross in front.
For more contained by depth instructions, there are many pious training videos on reining. The rollback is the basis of a reining spin. Luck
It is more difficult than it looks, even whether the horse is a finished reiner, and the faster the spin, the more difficult it is.
If you are a beginner, you need to first develop a good form at all three gaits, be able to feel circles well, and be able to steer your horse well near your legs. This takes, well... whatever it take.
Once you can do this, you can approach the spin, even on a horse that's not a reiner. Circle the horse into smaller and smaller circles at the trot and as you do so bring the reins back in to restrict forward motion. The balance of your pushing the horse contained by the trot needs to balance the restraint of the reins. If that happens correctly and for long plenty, the horse will lock a hind foot into the ground and pivot around it. If you get a couple of spins, you're doing well.
This is how reiners are taught to spin wjhen they are one trained. But even this is a little hard.
A real reining spin on a fully trained reining is terribly exciting, but is not easy. It starts with the horse at rest. You look in the direction of the spin, press a spur kindly but firmly into the area just behind the cinch and appropriate the other leg off the horse. You need to hold the reins at light contact, only enough to tell the horse not to go forward. The horse will start to spin and you requirement to take the outside leg off at that point, save your balance and count the number of rotations. Then open both legs and say whoa.
Have a look at this video for some great spins!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcNq3X__m...
It is cool and very fun. My trainer taught my horse to do it, then qualified me to ride and give same cues. I drop the reins to a very loose loop on neck. I next nudge him behind the cinch, keeping just enough pressure on the bit to preserve him from going forward. He is very push button when it comes to working on the cow or spinning, but it is in his blood and also in the trainer's pocket ($$) LOL
Answers: First remember that the turn or spin is a forward movement not a roleback or any other tipe of turn.
First your horse will necessitate to know how to move off your leg and neck rein.
Then once you get that down in good health start walking circles and as you do make them smaller until the horse crosses over in the front. Once he dose that for a step make him amble forward again and then make the circle smaller and cross over again after a few times ask for 2 steps then 3 and so on.
At this point do not verbs about what the back feet are doing and do not verbs about adding speed. what you need immediately is to make sure that the front feet/legs are crossing over correctly the rear winding up will come.
As you ask for the circle and then into the turn do not bend the horse so much that you see more then to see the corner of his eye. If you bend him too much to ask for the turn he will swing his rear out and start to pivet on the external leg which is not what you want. The inside foot is the pivot foot.
Once the horse is solid in the front and the rear starts to pivot and stay in one nouns you can then and only then start asking for more speed.
If you use the paling to teach the turn you run the risk of teaching the horse to sit back over its hocks and stop forward movement which is what you want on a roleback but not on the turn.
Just fashion sure that as you are teaching your horse to perform this menuver that you maintain him moving forward. This is one thing that people make big mistakes on and really mess the horse up next to. Once the horse learns to cross over behind and/or use the outside pivot foot it is really really rock-hard to correct it.
This processe is not a fast one and will take time for your horse to master particularly if the horse is not bred to rein. A good well bred reiner will turn naturelly and adjectives you really need to do is add a cue to it however for the others it take time.
