Picture this.
You’re running your horse down the arena. You softly say “whoa” and
lightly lift the reins. Your horse responds instantly, giving to
your hand by dropping his nose and shooting his hind legs far
underneath his body.
As your horse goes
into the stop, his mouth, neck and shoulders stay soft and supple.
His front legs remain relaxed as his hind legs lock, making long,
deep, tracks in the dirt. That’s what this video is all about.
This is the third
“stopping” video in the Larry Trocha Training Series. The tape picks
up where "Teach Your Horse to Stop Light and Collected" left off.
The first two “stopping” tapes focused on the all important
foundation and intermediate techniques of teaching a horse to stop.
This third video
expands, modifies and refines the training techniques introduced in
the first two tapes. This tape is a "must have" for riders who are
really serious about having a good stop on their horse.
Here’s What You’ll
Learn...
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Teaching Your Horse Good Head Position
It’s important
that your horse learns to work with a low head. Nothing in the world
feels better than to have a horse come back to your hands softly and
lightly. This section of the video shows you several techniques to
accomplish a beautiful head position. You will learn how to teach
your horse to lower his poll as well as give his nose to your hands.
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How to Make Your Horse Light and Responsive
If a horse is
going to be a top performance horse, it’s imperative that he
responds immediately to the riders cues. This section shows you how
to teach your horse to stop hard with just a touch of the reins. And
with some horses, just lifting the reins, not even touching
their mouth. This isn't as hard to teach a horse as some people
think. However, you must give the horse a specific sequence of cues.
Follow this simple sequence and your horse will practically teach
himself.
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Schooling Your Horse for Long, Sliding Stops
You are going to
love this part of the video. I ride two horses and school them
as if I were preparing them for a reining. The first
horse is pretty far along in his training but definitely has some
problems. You’ll see me schooling this horse to correct his bouncing
stops, bad head position, and charging the run-down (speed control).
I start out schooling this horse with a snaffle and finish him up
with a curb bit. You’ll see big improvements take place right before
your eyes.
Sidenote: Even though this horse
was having some problems in the video, with a little more training
he went on the win both the Open and Non Pro Reining Year-End
Championships of the WCH Association.
The second horse
is fairly green. He doesn’t know how to slide and is not shod with
sliding plates. However, you’ll see this horse go from having almost
no stop whatsoever, to doing long, sliding stops that are pretty and
correct. I school this horse with just a snaffle. You won’t believe
the transformation this horse makes. (You will see how this is done
in actual "real time". No "editing out" was done to this part of the
video, what you see is the way it really happened).
Sidenote: Shortly after this video
was produced, I started training this horse for cutting. After a
year of training, he and his owner started showing and ended up
winning the Non Pro Year-End Championship Saddle for the Vintage
Cutting Horse Association.
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Training Horses that are Difficult to Stop
If you have a
horse that’s giving you trouble while learning to stop, this part of
the video is really going to help you. I share with you some
solutions that work extremely well. You’ll learn special training
techniques and see some special training equipment that can make a
big difference in your horse’s performance.
