A rope or flat headcollar starts correcting the horse as soon as you pick up on it and unconfortably asking him to twist his head while moving and doing what's requested.
That's not very nice.

Our exclusive design gives the horse a chance to be right before any correction. The sliding ring works as a pre-signal. Your horse should respond to that alone. If he doesn't, only then do the pressure knots engage to give a very gentle reminder and enforcement. This reinforcement feels similar to pressing your first two fingers on one hand into the soft space between your fingers on the other hand.

There is no movement on the Hybrid Headcollar besides the sliding ring - the entire top part of the halter rests quietly on their face - giving them only one sensory cue to pay attention to. The flat poll helps protect from injury if he should get scared and pull back and our products are carefully designed to breakaway and be replaceable should that happen.

The Hybrid Headcollar offers more control than a control headcollar when your horse does have an emotional moment and needs support - but it is not a control headcollar. It is a full time replacement headcollar that is beautifully made and more comfortable than your horse's current headcollar. Good horses deserve to be rewarded with less annoying humans. Horses that are struggling to learn deserve to be treated with dignity and respect while they figure out how to be good citizens in our human world.

As to imitators; the quality of our materials remain above anything else available in horse halters. Whilst there are now many recent copycats on the market, the original HEC design remains the unmatched leader. We innovated its construction, secured the patent and trademark and continue to lead the way in partnering with the best horsemen and women across disciplines worldwide over the last 10 years. Thousands of hours have gone into both continuous engineering improvements and nerdy details such as breaking strength that keeps your horse safe with the HEC Hybrid Halter. Designs with free floating rings on rope halters can be unstable and don't address the concern of a rope halter needing to be cut off a horse's head in a bad pullback. Horses are my friends and I remain vehemently opposed to anything that tightens on their nose (leading rings, control halters, etc) - even if that something is nylon or soft rope and not a stud chain. Such designs are also generally one-sided and have quite a bit more hassle switching around. I am unimpressed by anything that uses discomfort in place of skill and these tightening designs embody that approach to me.

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