[drivingpairs] Re: Voice Commands

Just for my own clarification Hardy, do you not give any verbal command when
asking your equines to stop and stand or do you ask with the rein first and
voice second?  Would this be the same whether you were driving 1 or 6 ? Just
curious??

Ansley
----- Original Message -----
From: <Hzlax@xxxxxxx>
To: <drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: [drivingpairs] Voice Commands


> In a message dated 5/9/2003 12:22:43 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> > I don't want my ponies responding to a cluck made by someone else,
>
> Mine can differentiate quite correctly if it's my voice or somebody
else's.
> In addition, with mine there is also the rein contact, and as described,
the
> half halt that starts the upward transition so somebody else's cluck
without
> my half halt shouldn't mean anything to them.  Besides, yours can
> differentiate that very well too, otherwise your next statement wouldn't
work
> either, or what would happen if somebody else says "ho"?  :-)
> >
> >
> > And "Ho" ALWAYS means "stop and do not move at all."  It doesn't mean
"slow
> >
> > down a little" or "slow down a lot this time" or "almost stop" or "stop
for
> >
> > three seconds before inching off again" ... it means STOP!!!   AND YOU
> > DON'T
> > *** EVEN *** MOVE UNTIL I LET YOU!!!
> >
> That's fine, however, in stopping just with a verbal command I see the
> following problem: When you say "Ho", from that very moment that the word
> leaves your mouth to the time that they stop, you have turned the
execution
> of your command over to your ponies, unless you do it also with the reins.
> Otherwise from that moment on, you are not in charge, but they are. You
have
> no influence if they stop right here, on a dime, or two feet from here, or
6
> feet from here. You have no precision anymore and leave it up to them in
what
> kind of a mood they are today, if they execute your command immediately
when
> they are very alert, or perhaps a little slower when they are not in such
> high state of alertness. And since they are animals and not machines,
there
> will be variation in their mood, and with that variation, there will be
> differences how quickly they react. For driving down the road, no problem,
> who cares, if they stop right here, or a foot later. But for halting in
the
> dressage arena at X or a C, it does make a difference.
>
> So in order to have precision in the execution, instead of a verbal
command
> (which then turns the execution over to them) I bring them to the halt
with
> my reins (bt have no problem if one uses a verbal command in addition to
help
> with that as a little extra, only personally I don't see a need for it),
by
> just holding them with more contact and guiding them through the downward
> transition to the halt, with my hands in the reins exactly as I guide my
car
> to a halt with my foot on the brake. So as the mood of my horses may be
> different from day to day, I feel exactly how much contact I need to take
> today, the same as we all feel exactly how much we must step on the brake
> pedal today to come to the halte exactly at the stop sign, not a foot
earlier
> and not a foot later, regardless if we stop with the car uphill, where we
> need less foot on the brake or downhill, where we need more foot on the
> brake. We don't even have to think about that anymore, it has become
second
> nature, and we are able to vary the pressure with our foot enough on the
> brake pedal
> to always come to the stop precisely where we want to even under all
> different conditions. I try to do the same with my hands in the reins.
> Hardy
>
>
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