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Originally Posted by Ltc4h
The answer;
How good are your legs
If they are good enough you can ride with the most hateful of spurs and never touch your horse
or
You can ride with the nicest of spurs and leave spur marks.
When you are good enough you can add artificial equipment, you should be able to "just" touch your horses side for .5 seconds and leave it alone.
If you have a dead sided horse, maybe he's just been trained to ignore the leg, since it is always flopping around, banging, squezzing,hitting,gripping.
He's just doing what it's been taught.
Want to know if you legs good enough, look @ your saddle and your boots/chaps, there shoudn't be rub marks from your leathers.
I agree but also the best of riders can use spurs wrongly. You get out there in the ring jumping, or doing a reining pattern, and the adrenaline gets pumping sometimes you squeeze too hard but you know better.
I believe spurs are great if you remember you have them on. I ride some horse with and some without and it slips my mind whether I have them on or not. They make the communication process exact and quick in the right situations too.