Groundwork - Pressure and Release | Chelsea Canedy
Groundwork
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4m 33s
Chelsea demonstrates what it looks like using the different levels of pressure to help your horse connect with you. When that happens, he will look to you to see if there something he needs to do when other things are going on in his environment.
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