Exercise: Yielding Around Obstacles - Sept 2020
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Karen and Solana demonstrate a fun exercise with basic yields. This exercise can help you increase your awareness of where your horse's feet are, sensitize your horse to the yields in order to build greater responsiveness, and can give you a way to measure the success of your yields.
This video demonstrates this exercise for a horse at the foundational stage, and you can continue to use it for a more advanced horse to keep them tuned up and feeling more coordinated.
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