Epiphany

I just had a big realization that I wanted to put in the blog: One of the reasons I have gotten bucking and head shaking and too fast cantering is based on my cuing too much/too hard! Now that I'm more confident and less spastic, I am getting a much better and less emotional response from Dude because I am cuing with more finesse and subtlety!! I'm so glad now I didn't crop him for bucking! It wasn't his fault!! He was just "ouching" in reaction to my kicking the crap out of him when I didn't need to give him any more than a slight indication of what I wanted!! Poor Dude continues to find his human to be slow on the uptake!!