How to Transition a Horse from Jog to Halt Western Style

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to show you some tips and techniques that I use when using transitions in the western style riding. So now that we have our horse moved up to a jog, we are going to want to break her back down to a halt. So what we would do as we are jogging around, there is 2 different ways that you can do depends on your horses level. You can sit, pull back and say whoa or if your horse is trained to squeeze stop, you can stick both spurs in and your horse should break down to the halt. Now squeeze stopping is something that you definitely know that your horse is trained to do. You don't want to get on your horse and jam your spurs in them and expect them to stop cause they are not trained to do that. It does take a quite a bit of training to get your horse comfortable with squeeze stopping since putting spurs or leg pressure on your horse is usually a command to go forward. So definitely work with a trainer or just take it really slow with your horse, start at the walk first, don't start at the jog or the lope cause that could be really dangerous. So squeeze, stop, put both spurs in and she would break down to a halt. If we want to do it without squeeze stopping, we would sit deep, apply calf pressure and just pick up and say whoa. So again without squeeze stopping sit deep say whoa, pick up, squeeze stopping. Put both spurs in, she should halt. So that is how you transfer to a from the jog down to the halt."