Keep your hands together (side by side, in alignment so that you only see the closest one from the side) or you block the outside hind
When the horse is lookier in one direction it's because their dominant eye is away from it, generally that's also their stiffer side.
To figure out what *your* dominant eye is, point at an object in the distance, without moving your finger, keep pointing and the object and close your left eye and then close your right eye, whichever open eye causes your finger to seem to not move compared to where it was with both eyes open is your dominant eye!
When suppling don't hold the +7 for more than a second, or the horse will break at the jaw.
The first ingredient of a connecting half halt is to close the calves and the outside hand so that it captures, contains, and recycles the energy back to the hindlegs; it lasts 3 seconds, long enough to inhale and exhale; give it by closing the legs, close the outside hand, and vibrate the inside rein while thinking "add, add, add"
Don't use the inside rein until just before the horse bends to the outside due to the closed hand.
When the horse can learn to go forward through a closed outside rein then you have a horse that can truely be on the bit.
Half halt through the transition to make it nicer
Work on keeping the horse from subtracting the gait, when half halting
****Exercise****
Lengthen trot on open side of a 20 meter circle, half halt on the opposite side, the half halt should have the same power/energy as the lengthening; use tummy muscles to shortern from the lengthening
Lengthen long enough to get an answer
When you close your eyes you should get the lengthening for 1 stride before closing the hand when half halting
After the half halt allow the neck to "fall down"
You need an extra insurance policy in the beginning by having more go than you need
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