Teach Your Horse to be Light and Supple
The absolutely essential key for good performance
One of the secrets to having a well trained, responsive horse, is to make sure your horse is light, supple and giving to your hands and legs.
Let me explain.
Suppleness is when you ask a horse to give his head to one side or the other and he willingly gives to your hand by following the bit. There is no resistance.
It also means that you can bend and position any part of the horse’s body to perform any desired maneuver. It’s sometimes called form to function.
In fact, lightness and suppleness are the key ingredients to top performance. Without them your horse’s performance will never be better than mediocre.
Suppleness is what allows us to position a horse’s body. And we need to position a horse’s body to teach him to perform with correct “form and style.”
Without proper suppleness and form, there is no way a horse can correctly perform any of the maneuvers expected of a western-style horse.
If you want your horse to perform good stops, turns, lead changes etc. then having him supple is a must.
A horse must also be light. He needs to willingly let us position his body quickly and without a struggle. Also, a horse will never perform as freely or as athletically as he is capable until he is light.
Because all horses are different and training situations change, this video shows a variety of ways to get your horse supple and light. The information in this video covers green colts as well as older, more advanced horses.
I highly recommend it.
Running time: Approx. 1 hour DVD
Price: $39 
HI Larry
I have just purchased your foundation training package, I’m eagerly waiting for it to arrive.
I am in the process of starting my 2 1/2 year old 2nd generation clydsedale/ quarter horse colt.
He is very placid and willing to learn, a pleasure to work with, I have never had any ‘trouble’ from him on the ground or on his back, however he is not free moving once you are on him.
I call him the ‘kick-along’ because you almost have to kick each step out of him, which obviously makes it extremely difficult to teach him anything else. I can get him moving in a walk and slow trot if I have my husband in the middle of the yard with the whip (you don’t even have to touch him with it just having it makes him a little more forward moving).
I have started around 50 young horses over the years and I have never encounted anyting like this colt. I am hoping that these DVDs will show me where I have gone wrong or what I can do to get him going. If you believe that any of your other DVDs would be more suited to a horse like this one could you please let me know as I am very keen to get the most out of him and I believe he will make a wonderful horse, if I can just get him going.
Kindest regards
Tamara
Hi Tamara,
Yes, the Foundation Package of DVDs will show how to deal with this problem.
I might suggest you get my dvd “Western Riding Know How” as well.
Good luck and thank you for getting my videos.
Larry