Halting
Although halting may seem to be straightforward there are a lot of small details that work themselves into a neat and clean halt.
Types of Basic halts
There are 3 primary types of halts.
(STANDARD) HALT SET
A standard halt set is called where all riders walk on 'pre', and when the 'go' is called the lead halts, then the second in line, third in line, and so forth, walking up to a Nose to Tail gap.
IMMEDIATE HALT SET
An immediate halt set is called where everyone will rapidly tap their keys until they stop completely. When you pick up your gaits from your immediate halt set you should fall back into the gaps you had prior to halting.
X SET
X set is just like it sounds. All riders will hit x on the go and do a sliding stop or a rear. This is the best way to do a completely instant halt.
Nose To Tail Flat
Nose-to-tail flat is when you walk, and then stagger side to side of your commander.
This results in the entire line standing side by side.
The alignment for this is boots brushing. None of your characters or horse should be touching others.
About one horse facing forward, or a character should be able to fit in between you and the other riders.
Slanted halts
Just like discussed on other pages, during movement, you need to counteract screen delay with gaps and alignment. However, when there is no movement, there is no delay.
As it looks on your screen, is how it will look on other people's screens.
You should halt, again, with one horse spacing between you, but take into account you do not want to be next to each other.
Your horse's front hooves should be hitting the back hooves of the person in front of you.
All of these concepts can be applied to any sort of halts found within our dictionary!
You can think of halting the same way as any other move, it takes time and calculation, and just because there is no movement for the move, you must still account for the screen delay and timing.
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