Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Introduction to Advancing Horsemanship
  • 2

    Advancing your ground skills - back up

    • The 5 qualities of the backup

    • Lightening your back up

    • Lightening your back up part 2

    • Backing and turning for straightness

    • Medium distance back up
  • 3

    Advancing your ground skills - sideways

    • Sideways from steady pressure - Angelo

    • Sideways from steady pressure pt 2

    • Denis - lightening the sideways
  • 4

    Advancing your ground skills - Travelling Half Circle

    • Starting the travelling half circle

    • Denis - travelling half circle - tools

    • Travelling half circle - moving off the fence

    • Denis - wind up wind down
  • 5

    Advancing your ground skills - circling

    • Maintaing gait on a circle

    • Transitions on a circle

    • Cantering on-line

    • Travelling circles
  • 6

    Ridden - advancing the 3 Essentials

    • Advancing lateral flexion

    • Indirect rein in motion

    • Tuning up the go button

    • Bridling
  • 7

    Ridden - Follow the Rail

    • Loading the corners

    • Transitions in the corners

    • Transitions in the corners - part 2

    • Transitions on the rail
  • 8

    The Direct Rein

    • The Direct Rein

    • Supporting the direct rein with a stick
  • 9

    The Support Rein

    • Support rein - the end goal

    • Backwards and over

    • Backwards and over - common pitfalls

    • Riding with one rein

    • Getting started with the support rein

    • The support rein pt 2

    • Support Rein pattern - the Uni-Q

    • The Uni-Q pt 2

    • Support rein - the hub

    • Forehand yields on the rail

    • 360 turns on the rail
  • 10

    Ridden Back up

    • The back up

    • Trot to back up

    • Hind quarter yield to a back up
  • 11

    Ridden Sideways

    • Starting ridden sideways

    • Starting sideways off the fence
  • 12

    Ridden Canter

    • Canter pre-requisites

    • Setting up the canter

    • Picking up a lead

    • The Bowtie Pattern - walk

    • The Bowtie Pattern - trot

    • The Bowtie Pattern - canter
  • 13

    Congratulations!

    • Where to now?