Spin off from-unruly canter.

Maybe just a different take on words.
But if perfect riding, isn't neccessary for correctly training a horse, regardless of discipline, than what is.




Not personal-just a good example.

Hmmm, who said perfect riding wasn't necessary? Maybe you've picked that up from someone else, but I believe perfect horseback skills are very necessary for any discipline and any under saddle problem, anytime, anywhere. But it is never going to just eliminate sour behavior.

The fact is, when you have a bucking, rearing, crowhopping, barnsour, lazy, ears-pinned-back horse, sitting pretty is NOT going to teach that horse to behave otherwise! Assuming the horse has no pain issues and the rider is not riding so poorly as to be bouncing around the saddle, or jerking the mouth off the horse then this behavior needs to be reprimanded with no exceptions.

I for one believe that there is no such thing as perfect riding. To say that there is is to imply that there is no room for growth which is to say that the "perfect" rider knows it all already to which i think most equestrians everywhere would agree is an impossibility.

I agree whole heartedly.

The point though, still remains.