Hello and welcome to episode three of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that you can be for your horse.
Call it Ground work, call it Inhand work, call it Foundation education, this podcast includes all of the exercises I use and teach every rider who wishes to become the trainer of their horses' dreams.
This episode builds on our last session and STARTS LATERALS, the soft inside bend, the beginning of yields, shoulder in... it all starts here!
Now there's a couple of things that you have to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I make decisions that keep us both safe and if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.
Each session of season one will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.
Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on TH-cam and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.