Ken McNabb: How to Teach Your Horse to Pick Up the Correct Lead at a Lope or Canter 

I have watched SO MANY instructional videos on how to be a better rider and how to better instruct my horses but NO video has been as clear and helpful as yours. Thank you

Hi Ken thanks for making this video! The way it has helped me is the exercises to get the horse in a nice bend. I have been training my horse and our canter to the left has been really unbalanced, and counter bent. Not fun for her or for me! Yesterday was a breakthrough! I got her “canted” with your instructions. I’m heading out to ride her again today, but I wanted to pause to thank you.

Best video I've seen on lead departures and I've absolutely scoured RU-vid looking for them...

This is gold!

This is THE BEST training video I have seen! Great camera angles so the viewer can see each teaching point, everything is explained really well. Thanks Ken!

I've watched several "how to lead" videos and have left very confused until this video. Very informative. Thanks for the video!

You're explanation of complex maneuvers is excellent! Thank you!😙

Long hard hours long days and always hard times for a long time and believing in god that made u so great god is there for u but u need to put the hours days month years of hard very hard work in those days to make it in ur life I really respect u Ken blessings to u ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I absolutely love ❤❤❤❤this

Thank you and amen

Loved every part of this video. So helpful. Thank you!

thanks, I needed those exercises to practice with both of my horses.

Thank you this was so helpful! I have a test for 4h and have been really struggling to understand leads but this helped a lot!!

Thank you, a great help and loved the message at the end, truly inspiring!

Thank you for all of your videos they are all amazing !! I just appreciate your advice your respect for your horses and your final good Words at the end so Well said😀

Thank you this was amazing.

Thank you so much. Very informative video.

This helped me so much thanks

Thank you so much

I am on the east side of the Mississippi and I have never cantered before I always thought it was a lope

Hi Ken, Thanks for the instructions, as I was told the other day that I was in the wrong lead. I find your instructions very good, but when you are talking about the three positions, I don't really see that much of a difference between position two and three. I know that you are mentioning from the cinch forward and a couple of inches behind. Could you explain to me in a little more of an explanation, please? Also, I am doing a figure eight for example, how do I tell the horse to switch leads? Thank you, agian.

Thank you for the help, and the good wisdom from the Lord in it. I wonder what you think about verbal and physical praise when horses perform an action, beyond just stopping. I find such great result from that. My instinct when your horse performed the last exercises was to say, "Good boy!" and give him a rub on the neck.

I have a trouble palomino who picks up the wrong right lead all the time and the barn owners don’t know how to fix him and no one knows how to fix he’s lead to put him on the right lead