Feel is more difficult for you to learn to recognize than the horse. When you are starting a horse, and you are asking for a backward yield it may take 100 pounds of pressure on the rope in order to get a horse to back up. You initially want to ask with 1 ounce of pressure, but if it takes 100 pounds to get the response you want - that's what you have to do. This may sound strange, but if you want a soft horse that responds to small changes, you have to set this up from the start. There is some risk involved in horse training for both you and the horse.
Horses can cause serious injury.
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