What you will learn

The goal of the second course in the Three Clinics series is to help you feel connected and safe in the saddle by building on the essential groundskills that you developed in the Connected Horse Course.

  • How to prepare your horse on the ground so he is connected and willing to be ridden

  • The "3 Essentials" for a safe ride: lateral flexion, hindquarter yields and the "go button".

  • The beginnings of performance: sideways and back up.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Welcome

    • The "3 Essentials" - lateral flexion

    • The "3 Essentials" - hindquarter yields

    • The "3 Essentials" - The "go button"

    • The importance of a loose rein

    • Tools

    • Meet the team
  • 2

    Warm up to ride

    • The Four "Yeses"

    • The ropearound

    • The ropearound part 2

    • Bend to a stop

    • Starting sideways

    • Sideways with flow

    • Sideways with distance
  • 3

    Preparation for riding

    • Safe saddling

    • Lateral flexion check

    • Preparation for mounting

    • Mounting safely

    • Dismounting safely
  • 4

    The Three Essentials - lateral flexion

    • Neutral lateral flexion

    • Lean -v- brace

    • Stirrup biting

    • Bend to a stop - walk

    • Bend to a stop - trot and canter

    • Correcting lateral flexion - Denis
  • 5

    The Three Essentials - indirect rein

    • The indirect rein

    • Indirect rein on the rail

    • Indirect rein in motion - Denis

    • Practical use of the indirect rein - the scary corner!
  • 6

    The Three Essentials - the "go button"

    • Teaching the "go button"

    • Advancing the "go button"

    • The 3 Essentials Lesson
  • 7

    Emergency dismount

    • The Emergency Dismount
  • 8

    The Direct Rein

    • The direct rein
  • 9

    The Back up

    • Back up - the final product

    • Starting back up

    • Back up part 2
  • 10

    Congratulations

    • Where to now?