As I play with Beau, I always kind of forget to use my cordeo, we are too caught up in playing, so I don't ask ramener, and when Beau does a shoulder in and I see him stepping under, then he starts doing ramener by himself, he also does it in his jumps and even a bit in the spanish walk, he puts his head that way, and he starts lowering in his hindend, so I guess that's the right thing he is doing, but he also just keeps it for a very short time.
But when we just walk, he doesn't put his head this way, when he is excited and trots or canters he has his head set to and starts to swing in his movements.
So I was thinking to train him at ramener in a walk, so he would do it at the walk too, but I am in doubt now.
I wish I could show you all, that you could be in the pasture with me!!
but I was thinking
1) Beau is trying and testing so much that I think I should let him be
2) walk is the only gate he is not trying to set himself in, so I doubt whether to train ramener in walk or keep that as a calm thing.
We do play with the ball and the tiger to stretch a bit after playing, we play 10 min and then tiger 5 min and stop. But should I stretch after every attempt of him to shorten and lift himself?
I love this subject...
I would love to have someone sitting in the pasture going : ' now he's collecting, now he's not....'
I'll try to let Adriaan film more again, so I can see... but he is more distracted with an audience
For me I guess collecting means: stepping more under, lowering his overbuild booty
, raising in front and swinging in his movement but in a controlled way ( and trying not to get our legs stuck in doing this
) because that's what Beau does, he tenses all his muscles, including his neck and then starts moving while he is really concentrating on what his muscles are doing, you can see him focusing.
And you should see it, because I feel hopeless explaining this!!!