Foundation Training for Turns, Circles & Leads
Start your horse’s performance training right by laying a good foundation for things to come.
How To Establish Control, Lightness and Willingness to Perform in the First 90 Days of Training
This DVD picks up where Colt Starting Magic
leaves off. In this video, I cover the first 60 to 90 days of training, starting with the colt’s third ride. The “foundation training” is what all future training is built on.
If the foundation isn’t right, the rest of the training won’t go right either. This “foundation training” is also important for re-training older horses that have never been taught to perform correctly.
As the title implies, this video will show you how to put that important foundation on your horse. You will learn the step by step methods for teaching an un-broke colt to turn correctly using his hocks.
You will also see how to teach your horse to pick up the correct lead whenever you ask for it and lope precise circles on a loose rein.
This video not only shows the correct training techniques, it also shows how to deal with all the possible problems.
The format I use in this video does a good job of showing exactly how the training should go.
First, I start the video by explaining how a well-trained horse should perform. I then ride an experienced horse to show the viewer what it’s supposed to look like.
Next, I show how the training is actually done by using a variety of colts in progressive stages of training.
I start the training demonstrations with a green-broke two-year-old that’s only been ridden a couple times. Then, I ride a colt that’s farther along, approximately 30-days of training.
And finally, I finish up on a colt that’s been ridden for several months and is more experienced.
By watching this sequence, the viewer gets a clear understanding of how to take a colt that knows absolutely nothing and progress him to the stage where he is doing things well.
Running time: Approx. 1 hour DVD
Price: $39 
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Hi Larry, Your videos on YouTube and in the training tips have been a Godsend for me, since I am training on a tight budget. I have been doing NH for about a year with my Icelandic mare. She was dominant and kicked, bit and dumped off my family and I, when given to me, but finally is safe to really put some work on her. I would love to see her do the rollbacks, stops, and canter departs consistently that she naturally can do when she wants to. She is an English trained mare, but Western is so fun, and almost everybody rides Western where I live. About 90% of the time she will stop or back on a loose rein, and her turning is OK, but she will still occasionally do the old pony trick and duck toward something she wants, so you have to be ready. I can ride in the large arena (pasture) in a NH sidepull halter, as long as it has extra knots in the nose. She is finally starting to do rollbacks at trot and canter at the lunge. She is just starting to be able to canter in hand when leading, to give you an idea basically where she is. Would this video, Foundational Training, be where we should start?
My other question, is, why does one move the horse’s hindquarters to the left if you want to canter on the left lead? The horse begins the lead with the opposite hind foot, right? Wouldn’t we want to move the hindquarters to the right to move the horse in a position to take that first step of canter with its opposite hind foot?—Thanks!