Hello. All good. I was able to get him past that but he still bucks and kicks bad under saddle every day. He’s starting to calm a bit. Still not reliable enough to get on though. I have gotten up in the saddle on both sides and did sit on him for the first time today but he seemed extremely uncomfortable with me being centred on the saddle and not just on one side or the other. 

I also discovered he is partially blind in his right eye and that he does have back pain however the owner wants me to move forward with him anyhow.

Yeah. So far he’s good with cinches etc. He allowed me to set the pack saddle on him yesterday with a bit of a fight but I didn’t bother cinching it up. Hoping to move to a regular saddle sooner than later as the pack saddle is built for a mile and doesn’t fit him so I can’t cinch it up.

Also forgot to add that I have hobble trained and tried to saddle with hobbles on and he still takes off bucking.