This ‘language of the aids’ can be as simple or complex as we make it, but as a means of communication it has one fatal flaw – it allows information to flow in one direction only. Imagine learning a foreign language that you can only understand, but are incapable of ever speaking. The only means you would have to communicate with anyone would be to respond to what they say or not. Because if you think about it, this is what we expect our horses to do. More often than not your horse is only left with two choices – to do what you ask, or to not do what you ask… and inevitably have to deal with the consequences of not ‘behaving’. … More The Language of Horsemanship: An Introduction