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Releasing Brace (1)

With full commentary, follow this ex pacer as I reduce his brace and freeze and turn it into flow under saddle.

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Releasing Brace & Understanding Brace

Episodes

Helping a defensive response to brushing and the saddle

30:18

Helping this horse by empowering him with movement and freeing up his brace

Helping a polo x mare that rushed away from legs due to painful spurring

31:15

This is a very gazy and bracey polo x mare that rushed away from legs due to painful spurring. In this lesson I try to help her to connect, trust and soften to ribcage pressure - using the belly rope.

Helping a worried braced horse trust the rein

28:19

Helping a worried braced horse trust the rein. This is a horse who has been taught lateral flexion and worries about pressure.

Helping a Bracey Horse Part 1

01:19:32

Freeing up the front in a horse that bends and freezes.

Helping a Bracey Horse Part 2

21:03

Helping with becoming more sensitive and soft in the ribs to the belly rope.

Helping a Bracey Horse Part 3

33:02

This lesson shows improving leg transitions an introducing the owner back to their horse

Getting better forward in a slow moving horse

16:22

Getting better impulsion by understanding the brace that slowing down through the reins causes

Softening a polo-cross mare

26:42

Softening a bracey, worried polocross mare with leg and rein; loosening the base of her neck

Freeing up brace in HQ & FQ

28:34

Freeing up brace in hind quarter and forequarter to create flow in the reins

Teaching a Rearing horse an Alternative

28:04

Teaching a rearing a horse an alternative through freedom of movement and thought

Helping an ex race horse that freezes

17:23

Helping a horse to soften and seek safety through movement

Lifting the halter knot

09:17

Exercise to loosen the feet and lift the wither

Encouraging the wither to lift

24:58

Helping a slightly dull horse to stop bearing down in the front

Improving the turns

29:30

Stopping the inside front foot from planting

Improving the back up

17:49

Improving a bracey back up

The physics of a HQ yield

16:20

Understanding the detail needed to get this right

Releasing Brace (1)

24:15

With full commentary, follow this ex pacer as I reduce his brace and freeze and turn it into flow under saddle.

Releasing Brace (2)

22:35

Undersaddle: following the rein into movement

Releasing Brace (3)

07:50

Teaching the indirect rein

Releasing Brace (4)

11:39

The final video in this series shows the results with commentary explaining what I am looking for

Assessing a rearing horse

29:10

Ideas on what to look out for and how to help

Eliminating the rear

36:07

Ex polo cross, jumping horse that has become very stiff

Distracting a hard thought: sensitive barrel

03:17

Helping distract a hard thought: this is a mare with a very sensitive barrel

Reducing a front brace

06:56

Helping a big brace in front and base of neck

Re-balance

24:30

Encouraging a horse to rebalance softly: using indirect pressure

Distracting a hard thought

09:29

Distracting a hard thought: a horse that is angry towards the saddle

Ridden

22:58

Addressing brace & centreing a mare at 8 day intensive clinic (ridden)

Lowering the head

12:52

Video Review: improving high head carriage & brace

Helping a head shaking mare

49:59

Good for understanding balance + reins; fixing her brace

Bending into a turn

12:17

Helping a traumatized horse that is frightened to bend in turn

Low head in young horse

22:56

Helping a younger horse that puts his head low become lighter in the front (ridden)

Stop shoulders falling in

17:11

Helping shut down stiff horse: Exercises to stop shoulders falling in

Ex race horse Part 3

10:42

Quietening head toss with head pressure (head hug)

Loosen up rigid horse

08:22

Helping a rigid horse to loosen up

Guiding softly

04:11

Helping a worried braced horse to guide softly and change direction through feel

Loosening stiff horse (1)

35:36

Loosening a stiff horse through the reins and shoulder control - part i

Loosening stiff horse (2)

32:06

Loosening a stiff horse through the reins and shoulder control - part ii

Troubled horse calmer with pressure

22:25

Getting a troubled ex sporting mare to be calmer with rein pressure

Head tossing lesson

10:00

Video review: helping gain connection on a ride with a horse that tosses his head

Improving the back up & stop

14:43

Quietening a horse to the reins & improving the back up & stop

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