Lateral Work
Why and how we teach horses to reach and become soft laterally, how it makes them softer and why it’s the building block for collection.
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Lateral Work from the Ground
How you start working on lateral softness from the ground.
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Lateral Softness
EVERY horse, regardless of their discipline, needs lateral softness. You can’t get this too good. Here I explain the fundamentals of what you’re looking for.
Doodles is better to the left (with her form), than to the right, but she’s softer to the right. So we will keep working to balance her o...
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Kit Kat 20 rides
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Doodles killing cats
Come watch me put a ride on Doodle Bug! 1/10/2023.
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Rio, Killing Cats 1/11/2023
On a rehab horse.
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Intermediate killing of the cats…
The minutia. Take 20 minutes and watch me put a ride on Issimo. 1/12/2023
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Cosmo, killing cats, and a ride.
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Leg Yields and Lateral Work
Lateral work is one of the oft most overlooked tools a horse needs to have to be successful regardless of his career. It builds softness in their face, ribs, hips; the whole body.
It provides the basis for collection, proper form in the turn around and so much more. You cannot get a horse too s...