Learn how to teach your horses to stand still patiently and remain relax during ground work.

How to turn free longing in the round pen into a work of art! Teach your horse how to use his body while loping, rolling back and develop the good habits of moving with powerful and calculated moves instead of rushed movements. The former is easier on their young joints and ligaments.

This exercise is a fun and effective way to introduce horses to various pressure points and to safely teach them how to yield away from them. This is the first step to body control.

Here is my take on what I consider one of the most important part of horse training.

It's now time to introduce the flexions from on top of the horse. First from a stand still. This is a critical exercise to master as out will be something to fall back on in many different situations as well as the main pillar to the next exercises.

There are many important moving parts to controlling the horse's body and it start with full control of the horses shoulders. Here is how focusing on their feet will make that a much easier process to achieve.

This is one of my favorite exercise to do with my horses. Especially if they are excelling at doing the Flexions and Transitions at the walk.

I want my horses to learn to step in the turn(spin) by lifting their feet, not drag them sideways. For that, getting good control of the inside shoulder early on is going to make a big difference. Here is how I do it

Here is the first of the 3 most important important elements of teaching a perfect backup in your horses. Doing it properly early on will help greatly in training other maneuvers such as the stop and speed transitions later on.

Here is the second of the 3 most important important elements of teaching a perfect backup in your horses. Doing it properly early on will help greatly in training other maneuvers such as the stop and speed transitions later on.

Here is the first of the 3 most important important elements of teaching a perfect backup in your horses. Doing it properly early on will help greatly in training other maneuvers such as the stop and speed transitions later on.

This might seem very basic but it's a critical indicator that you are well connected with your horse. Trotting off and transitioning back to a walk sounds easy but very often, I see riders use a excessive amount of leg just to trot off and the same amount of hand to bring them back to a walk or t...

Just like a drummer, it requires skill and practice for the rider to properly apply leg pressure to control the yield of the hips while maintaining forward motion with the opposite leg in a diagonal position. Repeating this exercise until it's mastered with ease will improve the rider's leg coord...

Transitioning from side to side without resistance and loss in forward motion is a good indicator that the lateral movement of the hind legs off the leg pressure was good and effective.

The first 5 to 10 rides are very important. Here is the first of 4 important steps I I take and focus on at this stage.

Controlling where the feet go with subtle body cues starts right now. Here is how I do it

This is a very natural and effective way to introduce the horse to the spin and crossing over with the front legs while pivoting on the hind leg. This maneuver being more mechanic and less natural to horse than others, it's critical to make it fun and easy to learn. Especially in the early stage.

Horses should throttle down to a walk or stop using the hind end and remain forward and free in the front end. It's very important that the horses don't depend on the hand to do downward speed transitions or stop. The should feel your lower body cues and respond to very subtle movements.