Foundational Principles

Foundational Principles

Training a horse isn’t really about training the horse. It’s about training us to be consistent in our ask and consistent in our release for their try.

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Foundational Principles
  • Lead Change Fundamentals

    In this video you’ll learn a couple fundamentals necessary for a lead departure or lead change.

  • The Horse Should Wait On Us

    Don't let you horse dictate where you go, when you go. That's your job.

  • Don’t let the Eears Tip

  • figure 8s

    They are as much for them as they are for us! We need to get ourselves consistent! Training horses is about us being consistent.

  • Leads, Speed Control, and Body Control - fundamentals!

    Leads, speed control and body control - fundamentals for any horse, but especially for barrel horses!

  • Issimo - preparedness

    If we can set the horse up for success by preparing them properly - timing up with a foot in a turn around or letting them know we're going to be asking them to stop etc, they'll be better able to do the maneuvers.

  • A ride on Boomer 6/7/23

    Boomer is a 5yo Appendix Bred QH who is gloriously clunky. He came to us with a busy mouth and a complete lack of coordination, but he’s learning how to use himself effectively now. He’s going to be super fun for his owner to run barrels on.

    In this ride we are working on not cross firing to th...