Whole Horse Coach
3. Riding Technique |
Balance, body position and maintaining tempo.
Foundational
13. Asking Your Horse To Lower His Head
From stiff to relaxed
This exercise will help you to get your calm and relaxed instead of stiff and tense while riding. Sprinkle this exercise to your riding routine and watch things improving.
14. Getting Your Horse To Relax - From The Saddle
Do this and your horse will relax
You will see what I do to calm down a very sensitive horse that tends to get disctracted by the suroundings. Your horse will relax and pay more attention to you.
15. How To Get Your Horse To React On Lower Pressure
Do this and everything will be easier
Having your horses respect is key to getting him to want to listen to you. Not because you force him to, but because he will be feeling safe with you and follow you as his natural leader.
16. Bending On a Circle - Walk
(Small circle in walk)
Improve accuracy and body position in walk
Improving the way your horse bends on the circle will get him more relaxed and easy to control.
17. Body Position Transitioning in Walk
(Figure of eight in walk)
Improve the way your horse transitions between turns
Once you are able to get your horse to carry his body correctly on the circle, it is time to start practising transitioning between circles.
18. Exercising Back Muscles Using Lateral Work
(Making the circle bigger in walk)
Improve accuracy and avoid back pain
Stronger back means your horse will stay healthy, happy and he will be able to do more complex exercises. You will be able to guide and correct your horse much easier.
19. Bending On a Circle - Trot
(Small circle in trot)
Let's speed it up
Discover how to keep working on getting your horse to bend properly on a circle while riding in trot.
20. Body Position Transitioning in Trot
(Figure of eight in trot)
Look smoother
Good transitions between turns not only helps your horse's fluidity and health, but they also make you a more skilled rider.
Stretches
Doing these stretches will enable you and your horse to progress more easily and quickly while riding. Your horse will thank you too!
21. Belly Lift Back Stretch
This is a great stretch for so many of back muscles including the trapezius, longissimus dorsi, latissimus dorsi, and the intercostal muscles between the ribs. It also helps strengthen the abdominal muscles. It's horse pilates!
22. Head On Diagonal Behind Knee Without and With Twist Stretch
This stretch helps create flexibility in the neck and the area in front of the scapula (shoulder blade) by stretching the scalenus, multifidus cervicis, brachiocephalicus, rectus capitis dorsalis and lateralis and serratus muscles.
23. Inner Bent Front Leg and Armpit (pectoral) Stretch
This is a great stretch for the pectoral muscles in the chest and "armpit" areas as well as the extensor muscles that run down the front and side of the horse's leg.
Intermediate
24. How To Adjust Head and Neck Position in Walk
Head up in the air? No thanks!
Discover how to ask your horse to carry his head in the correct position while you are riding in walk. As your horse starts carying his head in the correct position the postore of his back will also improve.
25. How to Adjust Head and Neck Position in Trot
Getting your horse to carry his head perfectly in trot
Watch this video and you will discover how you can adjust the position of your horses head while riding in trot. You will see what the correct position is and how to achieve it.
26. How to Adjust Head and Neck Position in Canter
Get control over how your horse carries his head in canter
A good rider should be able to control the way his horse caries his head, even in canter. You have already learned how to do it in walk and trot, now it is time to learn how to do in canter.
27. How To Relax Head And Neck In Walk
From stiff to relaxed
This exercise will help you to get your calm and relaxed instead of stiff and tense while riding. Sprinkle this exercise to your riding routine and watch things improving.
28. Exercising Back Muscles in Trot
(Making the circle bigger in trot)
Strong back, calm horse
Building on what you have already learned in the previous exercise and just stepping things up and speeding up in canter will allow you to continue improving.
29. How To Relax Head And Neck In Trot
Looking relaxed and confident!
Help your horse to react better on the reins. Exercise and relax his head and neck. A horse with a relaxed neck is sure to look way better as he moves with you on his back.
Stretches
Doing these stretches will enable you and your horse to progress more easily and quickly while riding. Your horse will thank you too!
30. Chin to Chest Stretch
This is an excellent stretch for the muscles of the neck, poll, withers pocket and back such as the trapezius cervicis, rhomboids, trapezius, splenius and spinalis muscles.
31. Tail Pull and Tail Circles
This is an excellent stretch for almost all of the muscles on the horse's topline including the back muscles (longissimus dorsi and latissimus dorsi), the gluteal (butt) muscles, and some of the shoulder and neck muscles.
32. Straight Front Leg Low and High Stretch
This stretch is wonderful for many muscles on the front and back of the leg including the flexor carpi radialis and ulnaris and the flexor digitorum profundus. It also stretches many muscles in the area of the shoulder blade (scapula) including the serratus, triceps, teres minor, supraspinatus and infraspinatus.
Expert
33. Relaxing The Hind End and Improving Control
Control every part of your horses body
This exercise doesn't just look exciting and quite advanced, it is also very for relaxing your horses rear, improving his reactions on the reins and getting better control in general.
34. How To Relax Head And Neck In Canter
Looking smooth on a circle
Looking at a horse going on a circle can tell you a lot. I am going to show you how to get your horse to bend his body properly on a circle, so he can maintain a better balance and you can have better control over where he is going.
35. Relaxing Hind End - Advanced
Gain greater control over your horse's hind end
You already know the basics from the previous video. Now it is time to discover how to take things further and continue improving.
36. Advanced Body Control at Walk
(Shoulder in in walk)
Getting your horse to carry his head perfectly in trot
Watch this video and you will discover how you can adjust the position of your horses head while riding in trot. You will see what the correct position is and how to achieve it.
37. Advanced Body Control at Trot
(Shoulder in in trot)
Even better control over your horse's back and their front legs
Building on what you have already learned in the previous video, you will discover how to take things even further and continue improving.
Stretches
Doing these stretches will enable you and your horse to progress more easily and quickly while riding. Your horse will thank you too!
38. Forward Farrier Advanced Variations Stretch
In addition to the hamstring muscles on the back of the horse's body, this stretch targets the muscles on the inside of the horse's leg when abducting the leg (bringing it away from the body.) It targets the muscles of the outside of the leg when bringing the leg across the midline of the horse's body.
39. Bent Front Leg Variations
In addition to the muscles stretched in the Shoulder and Bent Front Leg Stretch (video #12 ), this stretch provides excellent release for the pectoral muscles as well as many muscles in the neck including the scalenus, splenius and multifidus cervicis.
