On 2/4/07, Judy Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The horses are standing facing me. I point to the left with my left > > hand, and foot, the rope is in my left hand--the horse doesn't move. > > I lift the stick which is in my right hand, the horse doesn't move, I > > throw the rope of the carrot stick over to the horse and off they go > > to the left. I stand still and they go around and around and around > > while I wind them in and eventually they stop facing me....I'm hoping > > with practice they'll get the idea that I'm not trying to lunge. > > > In reading this, I felt, with the instructions, that you WERE asking them to > lunge!
I was copying what I saw Pat doing in a video--his horse only went around him once or twice while mine seems to think I wanted continuous circles. I'm going to watch Pat's video again and see if I can figure what I'm doing wrong. I saw this on the video that I received with my Savvy Times -- Pat does the 7 games with a horse that has never done any games. V