[MissTargets]

Just like in your jumping, you better be in tuned to the horse. Deep seat and all. So many riders get behind the horse and just hinder the movement. There were quite a few good barrel horses, but over reining and an unbalanced rider can really mess them up.

[AnAmericanMother]

I would think over-reining would be easy to do.

In jumping, I don't consciously rein my horse to the next obstacle - I turn my head and shoulders and LOOK at it. That's enough pressure on the reins and hips to tell the mare where to go, unless we're doing something like a 180 or 270 degree turn (our trainer LOVES those darned things). Then sometimes Gracie decides that she thinks she knows where we're heading next, and if she's wrong I have to really sit down and lean on her.