Day Thirty Four: Today I warm Happy up by round penning him until he is done playing and is ready to listen and relax. It’s important he is ready to slow down cause I want to teach him about moving off the outside leg and rein. I will have to bump my leg on him and we will needs to have worked through his jumpiness. I mount Happy and he walks off. I ask him to stand still and wait for me to ask him to move off. Happy gets nervous and starts to push through the reins, as I insist He pushes harder and then starts to tuck his ass and run, I have to pull his head around but he starts to panic so I step off. I lunge him until He settle again and then I start to flap the stirrups and make him jump until he decided do stand still even though I’m a little rude about it now. It is common for a horse to get nervous about leg at this point realizing that I’m asking for something definite. Work through it by pushing him past his thinking, leaping out from under me is a good idea. If he wants to leap to the side I keep making him leap. He will tire of this game and stand still. I mount again and Happy is back to relaxed and ready to listen. He remembers the last lesson well and will move off my inside leg and rein. I recap both direction and then start the lesson of moving off out side leg and rein. Move slowly and ask him to stop forward motion by lifting the outside rein and applying outside leg to keep him moving with a step to the inside. This drill is the beginning of teaching him to spin but most important in teaching basic guide. Keep it simple and slow and he will learn this lesson in one lesson, just one step that’s it, simple one step to the inside when I bring the rein back and across his neck bumping with my leg to keep him moving, then release pressure when he takes one step