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Podcast: Be Your Best Horsemanship
Episode: Why You Should Be Softening Your Horse's Ribcage
Description: For many years in my training career, I only focused on training the parts of the horse’s body that I could see. I focused on creating softness in their face, neck, and shoulders, but I never worked on controlling anything behind the saddle horn. Over the years, I have learned that there are five main parts of a horse’s body that are all interconnected: head, neck, shoulders, ribcage, and hindquarters.Â
Each of these body parts work with one another to create proper, fluid movements throughout the horse’s body. If one of these five areas becomes...