Article: . In the herd, horses are natural followers. Within the herd, one horse needs to be a leader. In your relationship with your horse, your horse should see you as his leader. One way to establish the leadership role with your horse is to lead him. It may not seem like asserting your leadership is showing your horse you love him. However, horses need boundaries and leadership. When he sees you as a good leader who will be attentive to his needs, he will trust you and feel safe with you. Lead your horse from various positionsthe lead position (ahead of your horse), partner position (beside your horse), and drive position (behind his withers). Leading your horse teaches your horse to respect your personal space. As you lead your horse, be assertive, yet gentle, with him when maintaining and establishing the boundaries of your personal space. Yielding to pressure is another way for your horse to see you as his leader. Horses use pressure with each other to assert dominance. Therefore, when you apply pressure to him, you are asserting your dominance over himonce again establishing your leadership role. Use your hands to apply pressure on your horse's body. The pressure should be gentle yet firmnot enough to push him, but enough to make him a little uncomfortable. Do not release the pressure until your horse has moved away from it. Practice applying direct pressure to different parts of his body (e.g., shoulder, muzzle, legs). Indirect pressure involves the use of driving aids, such as a lead rope, to get your horse to yield. Practice this by standing about three feet in front of your horse, with his lead rope attached to his halter. Point your index finger at him and begin to wiggle the lead rope. Your horse should begin to move backwards. Your horse may not understand what you are trying to get him do to the first time around. He may stand there, or move to the side. Wiggle the lead rope with more force until he steps back, or at least leans backwards. Stop wiggling the lead rope as soon as makes the backward motion. It may take some time for your horse to learn that you are his leader and that he should respect your personal space. Practice for a few minutes each day until your horse readily and consistently accepts your leadership role with him.
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Lead your horse Teach your horse to yield to direct pressure. Teach your horse to yield to indirect pressure. Practice leading and applying pressure each day.
Article: Masonry chisels come in many shapes, including bolster, pitcher, and sculpting chisels. Pick one that is the right width and shape for your job, and is made to chisel the material you are shaping. A bolster chisel is beveled on one-side of the blade and is used to break off large pieces or sections. A pitcher chisel is beveled on both sides of the blade and is used to cut straight lines. Sculpting or engraving stone requires a wide variety of specialized tools and chisels. Making a line where you want to break the stone or brick will help you keep on track as you chisel. You will make scoring marks along this line before trying to break the brick or stone in half. However, chiseling into stone and brick is not always exact, so be prepared to work with pieces that don't break right on the line. You want to hold the chisel so that it is at 90 degrees and will go straight into the brick or stone. If you hold it at an angle, the cut will go off at an angle as well. It can take some practice to be able to hold the chisel perfectly upright while hammering it. Try making some practice cuts before chiseling into pieces that need to be cut correctly. Gently tap the end of the chisel with a hammer, mallet, or sledgehammer along the line you want to cut away. After you score one part of the line, move the chisel down the line and continue scoring the entire length. The score line doesn't need to be very deep. You are just aiming to make the line weaker than the surrounding material, so that the stone naturally wants to break there. The goal here is to make a line that the stone or brick will break cleanly along. If you don't make a score line, a piece of brick or stone wider than your chisel can break jaggedly. Strike the handle of the chisel sharply with your hammer, mallet, or sledgehammer. Use as much force as you can, so that the chisel is driven down into the stone or brick. Repeat your strikes all along the score line on either side of the first strike until the break occurs.
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Pick the right masonry chisel to score, trim, or shape brick or stone. Mark the stone clearly with paver's chalk or a dark pencil. Set the masonry chisel perpendicular to the surface you are chiseling. Make a score line along the brick or stone. Make a hard strike in the middle of your score line.
Article: The first section should be taken from the hair closest to one of your ears. Work from the front to the back of your head, using the front point of your comb to separate a strip of your hair. Use a ponytail holder or duckbill clip to secure the other hair in place away from the section you just made. These pieces should be the same size as you would use for a normal cornrow braid. The extension should effectively be folded in half, with the middle point being the point of attachment to the scalp. Braid the extension piece in with the piece of your natural hair that you separated. Combine the natural hair with the extensions, maintaining the three equal pieces. Do one full rotation of braiding, in other words fold all three pieces over the top, before pausing. You will only be pulling out one side of the extension, the other side will get pulled out on the next cycle. Pulling pieces out will repeat like this, with one half of a piece getting pulled out in one cycle and the other half getting pulled out in the next. This way the hair extensions all come out relatively the same length. It's great if you can hook the length of the extension your pulled out onto the hair you have pulled away with your clip. This will keep it out of further braiding, as it will be the first piece of extension that will form the body of your hair. Make sure you are only pulling out the extension hair, not your natural hair. This will insure that your braids do not get too thick and that the previous extension is locked in place. Place it directly in front of where your braid currently stops, folding it around the outside and underneath before incorporating it into the next braid cycle. Ideally, you should continue braiding like this until you are past the endpoint of your natural hair and are working only with hair extensions. Using the outer two sections of hair, secure the braid with a knot. Allow the middle section of hair to fall through the braid. Use these two sections of hair to tie another knot, further securing the braid in place. It is important to avoid tying off the braid until you have reached the end of the natural hair. Tying a knot in your real hair can be very damaging to the hair. In addition, the security of knots tied with natural hair versus extensions is unsatisfactory. It is a good idea to go halfway up one side of the head and then switch to the other side, working your way up the same amount. This way you will be able to more easily assess that your tree braids are symmetrical on both sides.
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Section off a portion of your hair that is approximately 1/2-inch wide. Pull one small pieces from the front of the first section of hair you are working with. Place the middle of one of the small bunches of hair extension against your head, in front of the section of hair being worked with. Begin braiding the three pieces of hair. Pull one section of extension out of the braid, pulling it out and away from the line of the braid. Do one more rotation of braid before adding in another piece of extension. Add another section of extension into your hair. Continue this process until the braid has reached your desired length, adding an extension in one cycle, taking a piece out in the next, doing another regular cycle, and then adding the next piece of extension in the next. Finish the end of each line of braid. Repeat this process with small sections of hair until the entire head has been covered with tree braids.