How Do I Bend My Horse?

It seems like a lot of people are confused about tools for bending. You must be able to bend even a horse from poll to tail, not only on the circles, corners, and the school figures as serpentines, figure eights and shallow loops, but also, you will need to bend your horse properly before you can do advanced exercises such as lateral shoulder -in, haunches-in, half pass.

So here are bending aids in a nutshell:

If you're circling to the left:
About your weight on your inside seat bone (left) to encourage your horse to engage his inside hind leg.
on your inside leg (left) on the scope, functioning as a pole for your horse to bend around and maintain activity within its hind legs.
on your outside foot (right) is beyond the scope of assistance to bend your horse around the inside of the body and legs to prevent his haunches from swinging out. Size of the circle determines how you should place outside leg behind the girth. For example, the 20-meter circle, place 1-2 inches outside leg behind the girth. For the 10-meter circle, put it behind a volume of 4-5 cm.
on your inside rein (left) is seeking an inflection in the interior. You just need to see your horse is in the eye and nostril.
on your outside rein (right) is stable and supports. Think of it as foreign trusts, which limits the degree bend in the neck. It also functions as a turning rein to your horse's shoulders around curves. When you turn the shoulders, the rest of his body will follow.

and think about creating a marriage between the inside and outside aids. You need both sets of tools for bending your horse while you are facing him with the prescribed lines. Your inside appliances bend the horse, and your external devices to turn to him.