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When you work on your foundation, get leading working well before you move onto other lessons. In this session, I show you where the rope knot should be positioned and go over some technique to improve your effectiveness.

Once your leading works really well (see Following Bo 1 to check this) you can introduce something else - could be a saddle, a saddle blanket, a belly rope - or in this case - the flag. Reminders of how to use the flag well and how to use it to create awareness. This video also covers how to deal with distraction.

What to consider when training a young horse to load; helping with proprioception; training that you can use to help them become comfortable with a tight space

Whiskey using the trailer ramp as an obstacle.

Hazel being taught to be comfortable inside the small trailer area. Hazel is less confident than Whiskey so it is good for you to see the 2 different lessons.

Explaining the psychology behind training: should an owner be worried by underlying stress or safety with a horse that has little expression?; do horses have bad days or is it always a hole in our training?; how do you soften a young investigative horse who lacks curiosity?

Advice and specific training exercises for a variety of situations: why use a bit?; does leading technique change with different horses, such as an anxious horse?; is a horse that runs back to the barn trainable? and what should you do if your horse walks off once you mount at the mounting block?

Training advice to get a standard bred to canter; if your horse stops when asked to trot or canter; how to get a flying lead change; and how to encourage a young horse to settle into an easy lope.

How to position your ropes for long reining and belly roping; how to keep your horse moving forwards without drive in both belly roping and long reining; the difference between pressure-and-release and how I would like you to train.

Help for a horse uncomfortable with things down it's sides; an anxious trail horse that baulks at a certain point; a nervous OTTB who is new to the owner, building confidence. Plus, when to transfer from a side-pull to a bosal and the advantages of this.

Explanations for a horse that scrambles in the float; pulls back when tied up; and that get's anxious out on trail. And advice for separation anxiety when left in a stable. A lot to address - listen to this to learn where to begin - great advice for everyone in this episode.

Helping Hazel to get used to a flappy and scary things above and around her whilst teaching her to follow feel. A great lesson to get any horse used to having things behind their eyes.

In this video I explain the importance of working a horse from above. Watch to get clear tips on training like this first without a flag and then with a flag. In this lesson, I just used a round bale in the paddock. Be creative if you don’t have a pony horse.

It's fiddly using one rope - let alone 2 - and add in using those 2 ropes in different ways with different feel - and it's easy to get in a tangle. So here's some detailed tips on using belly roping on a young horse - from the importance of getting them to follow the feel of the belly rope to being able to stand and know that girthing is neutral and not leading. This has useful tips on how to set the belly rope hold the lead rein in the belly rope and use the belly rope to block an inside thought.

Advice for a shetland pony who freezes with an adult rider and who has much greater confidence following a person than the rider. How to approach riding a horse that has a tendency to shut down; and how to help a horse that is reactive to a rug. Plus - are halters really a good idea for training in?

How to offer clarity to the horses you have spent time cuddling and now need to train. Specific reference to leading past the shoulder. Also, short exercises you can do with your horses over winter and explaining the indirect and direct rein positions.

A look into the difference between softness and lightness and why softness is what we are aiming for. Specific training tips to help horses with a hard eye become softer.

Check your horse doesn't have a pull back. Then, see if they can keep listening to the rope under pressure and when the trailer is very scary.

Can your horse self load and correct a retreat?

Do you set your horse up to problem solve?

What I'd like you to consider addressing when approaching something scary. This lesson is under saddle.

Helping a horse to process rather than freeze or rush around something scary. This lesson takes place on the ground, near trailers.