Hello and welcome to episode Nineteen and Twenty of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that we can be for our horse.

This episode focuses on teaching our horse to be light and responsive to our rib aids. It is important to start with lateral side steps and make sure our horse is confident moving sideways. It is the side steps which encourages our horse to bring their hind legs forward "through" and under their belly.

Once we have soft lateral movement, we are then able to lift the rib and back of our horse into a soft frame, our horse will become more balanced and will find it much easier to seek our contact and begin work in self-carriage.

REMEMBER Bending - Flexes the head and neck

Open rein - Creates space for the shoulder

Closed rein- Closes the door on the shoulder and allows the front legs to move out away from us.

This lesson will help us improve the balance of our horse, building confidence in every movement to come.

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

For more help, more training tools or to connect with us check out, www.equinedevelopment.com.au

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Hello and welcome to episode Eighteen of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that we can be for our horse.

This episode focuses on separating the hind quarter cues from our shoulder cues. The better we can separate the hinds from shoulders the more advanced movements we can achieve with our horses. Our groundwork recaps on our one rein 10m circle work and looks at improving how our horse connects to our energy and responds to our 3 inside reins.

Bending - Flexes the head and neck

Open - Creates space for the shoulder

Closed - Closes the door on the shoulder and allows the front legs to move out away from us.

This lesson will help us improve our laterals, shoulder in and yield in sessions to come.

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

For more help, more training tools or to connect with us check out, www.equinedevelopment.com.au

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Hello and welcome to episode Seventeen of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that we can be for our horse.

This episode focuses on the shoulders, the front end of the horse. It is important to remember that everything in front of the girth is controlled by our reins, OR we communicate with everything in front of our girth with our reins. A horse that is LIGHT in front means that we can "guide" the front feet of the horse and encourage the horse to power forward from behind. A light horse finds balance more easily and is less likely to fall in or fall out on a circle.

Our horses SHOULDERS (whither) should always find the center of our reins, but we train the shoulder one rein at a time on the ground before we bring this expectation to our horses attention. :) A closed rein will "block" the shoulder, an open rein will "create space" for a shoulder. When a horse understands these two cues really well, we can begin to ride with two reins and think about lifting our horse into the space we are making for them.

In this episode we build on our shoulder groundwork and begin to work on the exercises under saddle.

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

For more help, more training tools or to connect with us check out, www.equinedevelopment.com.au

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Hello and welcome to episode Sixteen of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that we can be for our horse.

This episode focuses continuing our wall work under saddle and introducing the SIDESTEP to our ridden work. We focus on the two leg positions behind the girth and on the girth. when our leg sits at the girth, we are looking to connect to the horse's rib "or if you want to be technical" the horses' inside hind leg.

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

For more help, more training tools or to connect with us check out, www.equinedevelopment.com.au

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Hello and welcome to episode Fifteen of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that we can be for our horse.

This episode focuses on introducing our wall work under saddle. We go over some of our groundwork exercises then saddle up! Because we have some soft forward walk and trot transitions to work on and some ridden hind quarter yields to introduce under saddle.

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

For more help, more training tools or to connect with us check out, www.equinedevelopment.com.au

Support The Equine System by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-equine-system

Hello and welcome to episode Fourteen of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that we can be for our horse.

This episode focuses on working all four parts of the horse on a simple pattern. "Left left left, right right right", is the first ridden pattern I teach every horse and every rider who comes to us for training. although it is simple that does not mean easy. The value comes when we begin communicating with all four parts of our horse and improving each turn by 1%.

If there is one thing, I wish for you to carry with you every time you ride a corner, it is "Lift the nose, open the shoulder, bend the rib, engage the hind." I hope that you dream about these turns for the next week.... I know I do.

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level. (This session we will also use 4 cones or markers to help us visualize our corners and pattern.)

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

For more help, more training tools or to connect with us check out, www.equinedevelopment.com.au

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Hello and welcome to episode Thirteen of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that you can be for your horse.

This episode focuses on our walk and trot transitions, ensuring they are positive, light and come from our seat cues. We talk more about the two leg positions, on the girth and behind the girth.

I find the best way to train both leg positions is using the "Pyramid" pattern from last session. It introduces our inside leg cues one at a time AND one side of the horse at a time. I ALWAYS TEACH MY LEG AIDS ON THE INSIDE OF A BEND before I introduce them to the outside of the bend. This is because if my horse ever overreacts to the aid, they feel they have somewhere to go...... "Sideways is better then up" :P

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

For more help, more training tools or to connect with us check out, www.equinedevelopment.com.au

Support The Equine System by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-equine-system

Hello and welcome to episode Twelve of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that you can be for your horse.

This episode focuses on our inside leg and our inside rein as well as building on our energy connection from last session.

I call these exercises PYRAMID exercises because they build up one cue at a time before retuning back down the cues the horse already knows. I find this is a great way to build a horse's confidence when learning to find answers to our questions.

However! - A pattern is only useful short term, once a horse builds his confidence it is important that we test our cues out of sequence... it is important our horse learns the "cue" not just the pattern. This early in season 2, I am very happy for you and your horses to gain confidence and stick to the PYRAMID pattern. :)

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

For more help, more training tools or to connect with us check out, www.equinedevelopment.com.au

Support The Equine System by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-equine-system