Demonstration long lines @Indoor Brabant

[@jencrane8144]

Can't stop grinning! Fabulous work Tristan and team, and especially wonderful job Nick and his supportive team. Now I know how to pick somebody from the audience as well - have the same size head ;)

[@sidilicious11]

Gave me some new ideas of what to do with long reins. Wonderful demonstration!

[@andrewphilip4471]

Awesome stuff Tristan!

[@Spigon5289]

Great work, Nick you are one very lucky young man. Watched over and over again Tristan fabulous.

[@annamelenhorst24]

Nice work Tristan!

[@merkabaable]

so jealous, what a wonderful demo.

[@dawnaustin4556]

Wonderful video. The horse is just beautiful

[@littlehummer]

the mare has lovely movement/carriage.

[@OlenaUA-USA]

Great job! Thank you!

[@SherriCavalier]

Fabulous!!!

[@anietberendsen5648]

Super!

[@elizabethblackwell6242]

Surely this technique is merely coercing collection from the head. Biomechanically correct collection comes principally, although though not exclusively, from stability in the longissimus dorsi. EMG scans show that the training aids of side reins and Pessoa do not increase the use of the longissimus dorsi to stabilise the back. It takes years of classical horse training to enable a horse under saddle to maintain the correct association of the top neckline and the underline in collection and with the head in a higher position. Side reins coerce collection without necessarily engaging the correct spinous processes in the correct way.

[@Maine931]

He is not forcing the head into a position. Its more like a suggestion and the horse takes the shape. It can kind of look like it is forcing the head into position at first glance, but if you study Tristan's work more closely (he has a whole online program), he doesn't force at all. Its encouraging the horse to get into position themselves. The reins are not fixed. They slide through the rings.

[@malloyneil40]

It's very nice to see Europeans starting to use natural horsemanship methods!

[@elizabethblackwell6242]

Using side reins is NOT "natural horsemanship", it's coercing collection from the head.

[@malloyneil40]

@@elizabethblackwell6242 OK, NOT!

[@malloyneil40]

@@elizabethblackwell6242 In maybe 20 years, you might know what you are talking about.

[@malloyneil40]

@@elizabethblackwell6242 Before you get more ignorant than you already are, Go to the Kentucky hall of fame. I have trained multiple horses on those walls.

[@elizabethblackwell6242]

@@malloyneil40 GP rider with a Masters in Equine Neuroscience and a minor in equid biomechanics. I look to science and evidence for correct training practices, not folklore and belief, although the old horseman's saying of, "Side reins are only for the most experienced and the most experienced never need them" does seem to apply. Biomechanically correct collection comes principally, although though not exclusively, from stability in the longissimus dorsi. EMG scans show that the training aids of side reins and a Pessoa do not increase the use of the longissimus dorsi to stabilise the back. It takes years of classical training to enable a horse under saddle to maintain the correct association of the top neckline and the neck underline in collection and with his head in a higher position. Side reins coerce collection without necessarily engaging the correct spinous processes or engaging them in the correct way.

[@lisa51680]

Wow a want to lurn passage piaff a not 10 😆 a can dressage 😃😃😃