Reining Training - Fundamentals to Reining 

Here’s me, 3 am during quarantine. Obsessed with star stable online and now in love with western cuz of the update, wanted to teach this to my Andalusian who has never done any western in his live (nor have I) with my very English tack.

I know this video is very old, but I’m just finding it. I will admit, I used to feel very similar to a lot of these commentators about the spurs. However, in my lesson program, I had the opportunity to use a couple of horses that were started with these foundations and shown in reining and working cowhorse disciplines. What I’ve learned since then, is that once the horse is this soft, they don’t go about their daily work like this, but riding them is super easy, they are so handy with their feet and highly athletic with lateral movements, flying lead changes, rollbacks and stopping. I can have 7-10 year olds riding more advanced maneuvers correctly, and the horse stays soft and safe. Since I’ve made this discovery, I have been somewhat putting this type of training on my own horses, and I am getting better results. I can see in this video how people would think this rider is over using his spurs, but if one really pays attention, you can see is is lightly bumping, not poking and prodding. And if the foot is in the proper position, the first thing touching the horse is the calf, not the spur. The idea is, that if the horse responds well with the calf, the spur isn’t even used. This technique even results in a very responsive, yet non reactive horse. The other benefits to these exercises, is that the quality of gait gets softer and smoother. The horse uses more of his hindquarters than forequarters, so he has less stress in the front end, and potentially extending the horses useable life since the horse already carries so much weight on the forehand when not taught how to transfer some of that weight back to the haunches. The biggest thing I try to be mindful of is going slow enough that I don’t cause the horse to brace when I ask the horse to soften at the poll, because I don’t want the hyoid apparatus to be damaged. I know a lot of professional reining trainers can get quick results by implementing steps that cause the horse to almost sink back from the riders hands, but I personally prefer to take it slower and keep my horse a little more in contact. I know this makes for slower end results and probably a horse that will not be as good at doing certain maneuvers as quickly. But for the time being, with what I do with my horses, I’m happy with that. Hope this helps some understand from a personal path perspective.

You work well and this definitely makes sense.

Great explanation of daily riding tools. Thank you!

Just got two of mine back from getting started.. This helps me a lot.

Nice, great explanation! I'm from Brasil

Thank you, great explanation

Thank you!!

I've watched him before, I like the way he explains it.

Thank you

Good info

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What bit do you use

Hey, what do you do to get your horses coat that healthy? I recently got a gelding and he wasn't taken care of at his last home, so we're working on trying to help his coat out.

where is he from.. accent?

what bit is he using?

Que grase de freno son eso

My horse throws his head up anytime I try to turn him we've been doing groundwork and switched to a snaffle I don't want to hurt him but it's very annoying when he throws his head up any advice?

Any horse will drive forward and flex when jabbed with spers and pulled with a bit like that in it's mouth. Less is more.

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Why is nose up under his chest like that? That's not collection.

Are the spurs necessary?

Beautiful.. thank you... I look forward to using your exercises..

Poor horse! This training is worse than the rollkur

How funny I just watched this so I can do it with my horses in the game Red Dead Redemption 2...it's quite funny 🤣

Had to get this video because idiots think the video of a officer on the horse used a whip LOL and they are saying the guy used it as a whip. Hahaha omg.

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What bit do you use

where is your training facility(like what state)

Great explanation!

Thank you