Teaching a Very Forward Eventer to Slow Off Your Seat with No Bridle 

Warwick Schiller, the people whisper😂🙏🏼💜

wow i can imagine how she felt 🤩 so accomplished and happy with her horse, i bet

This is so simple, BUT, ITS SO COOL!

Lately every video I watch (which is as new ones are posted) seems like the best one ever. So Warwick definitely isn't running out of steam, when it comes to material! Also, I've noticed that he seems to get some really wonderful riders going to his clinics, people with tangible problems that are actually solvable. You feel so happy for them!!

This was the 1st or 2nd video I ever watched of yours. It completely blew my mind! To take a forward horse and turn it into a calm respectful safe ride without crazy bits and punishment?!?!? That is what I was raised around. I decided to become a better, more educated horse owner and learn more natural horsemanship. I even started taking lessons again at 37! Thank you for these videos you have not only opened my eyes but helped me be a better horse person and teacher. My horses thank you! #journeyon20

Not only does this video help me to transition my horses' energies, but to transition mine too. Thank you!

So many times it's the riders expectations of what the horse is going to do, which ruins it for the horse. Like wanting to pick up the reins for being able to control the horse. When all they need, is to go back to start, and also trust themselves in the situation.

Just wanted to thank you SO much for this video. This is exactly what I needed! 🙏🏻

I love going bridleless. It really helps to show where the holes are in your training

Gee Warwick.Brilliant video.Following your training has changed my life not only as a horseman but as a person.The other huge plus is it changes my horses lives.Interesting if I follow your guide to training the difficult stuff becomes achievable as long as I don't take shortcuts.Forever grateful.

So many people really don't understand that horses can only relax if their heads are free and there is no pressure on the bit. People expect horses to stop and slow down, but with "contact". Well, contact just maintains stress on a horse. For me, contact means "we're about to do something, I need you to be up and alert". When you're trying to get a horse to relax and wind down, you have to let him have his head and not keep any pressure on

I’ve been using tips from many of your videos for a while now and what a change it’s created in my horses! Thanks for the free videos you put out. They are so valuable and helpful 😀

Looking forward to train myself to that. Thank you Warwick.

Well done! Love the rider skill and balance. No handlebars for her! Best relaxation action to begin and end a session is ride on the buckle and breathe out. Love the horse in his capacity to respond and learn new skills xox

The best video on all subjects I’ve seen in a long time! Great clinician and great rider! Thanx again Warwick!

I love you man! So happy to have found your channel. I am using your methods for young icelandic gated horses, and it works even with them. Even if there are some personal tweaks, but the basic ideas. Thank you. This little video reminded me to not give up on that one thing I want to fix with my young gelding. He is not getting the head bend. He will do it when he is relaxed, but stiffens up and wants to take off, well you know the deal. Their neck turns into rock, kind off and he goes wayyyyy too fast...Ha ha and I need to bend him again which gets him enraged and wants to grab my reins and bolt. So what I have been doing lately is just doing endless bends in the arena, so he never even gets to go fast except occasionally so I can relax myself, its hard work riding in small circles. So he hates it, and I dont enjoy it either, but I am seeing progress. Woke up this morning thinking, "I need to give him a break and we go for a ride, let him have some fun". But actually I was reminded of yesterday, he may not have liked our exercises initially but there was a magical moment close to the end where he was listening to my every touch and my seat. It was amazing, I hugged and kissed him after, and I sensed he was quite happy with himself. Aslo followed me to the stables with his face in my hand pretty much and did not once scream at the direction of "his" mare (he thinks he is a stallion). So perhaps we will start in the arena at least and see where it goes. Having a bolting horse after all is dangerous and I only have one life.... Working on one thing at a time is OKAY. hallelujah

Brilliant! That was a wonderful accomplishment! Bridleless riding is a true test of the relationship between horse and rider. I’m inspired to head for that with my young gelding.

This video helped me so much! I have a very forward and anxious horse that I want to trail ride on a loose rein. This gave us some focus and I'm shocked at how quickly it's worked! He completely understood very quickly.

I appreciate that you explain why you asked her to stop her horse when you did (he wasn't ready to stop previously), instead of you seeing the change, telling her to stop him, and having it be all about the sensationalism of stopping a horse without a bridle. I've taught this principle to clients for a long time, they are not only amazed, but they are able to use the information in a practical way for years to come. It becomes about what THEY are teaching the horse instead of "send your money to this clinician because when I was there they were able to emanate their skill into my horse and stop them with no bridle!".

Very impressive.

YES!

Forever inspiration!

Just what I needed to see.... Thank you 🥰

This video helped me gain a lot of knowledge about new ways to approach my two very coward and anxious mares (As have many of your videos). I ride both western and English and own 4 horses of my own, since watching your videos and using your techniques Ive see a recognizable difference in not only how my horses ride but how happy they are and willing. Thankyou. Your training has given me faith when I felt like I was at a road block. I aspire to go to one of your clinics and see it in person one day. #journeyon20

Beautiful work.

Well done!

How would you go about increasing a horses esponsiveness if they tend to be more relaxed? I have worked alot on relaxation and connection, but would love to increase my horses forward motion and responsiveness!

This is golden, thank you for sharing ❤️

Fantastic lesson!

Thank you !

Great ! Working on this today.

Priceless information 👍

I'd love to see some content done around horses who have been taught these foundation pieces with tension so they will laterally flex all day long but with hard eyes, shallow breathing, and a tense face. The longer it is done, the more they mentally disengage and go into a state of learned helplessness.

This video confirms I"m doing okay with teaching my horse. Thank you so much.

Thank you! This is great!!!

THIS. Thanks. My Andalusian/QH mare is the rushinest rusher in the world. Very responsive. Shoot you can sneeze and be in the next county. Not a spook, just a rusher. Ok, kind of a spook. 😜

Thank you!!! I'm so happy to have found you!.

This video really excited me because it started to reinforce the idea that I would be able to maintain our connection, communication and relationship right out onto the cross country course, and I was wondering if that was going to be possible. I stepped away from the traditional world to focus on relationship and connection, but wondered if I could ever bring the two together. This video helped me understand that I could 🥳 thank you Warwick 🙏 #journeyon20

Brilliant

I was taught to imagine that your horse a fish bowl on a springboard. The lighter your seat the more the bowl bounces, causing the water to be rough and the fish swimming fast around. When I sit deep in the saddle, I’m sitting on the top of the fish bowl meaning the springboard to depressed and the bowl can’t bounce around as much. That makes the waters calmer and the fish slower and calmer. It worked pretty well for me.

That was just super!

Very cool! x

This is so good

So I just have to say…holy cow. I have a horse that pretty much has a racehorse mentality due to bring a trick riding horse for so long (run fast in a circle). As a result, we often got in a tugging ear where I was pulling on his mouth because he wouldn’t slow down and then he was mad about me pulling on him so we just went around and around like that. May 2020 I started him completely over do I could teach him to relax his mind. He is leaps and bounds better than before but still struggles to want to go fast more than I’d like. I’d looked at a lot of different approaches in the past but none were really right for him. I watched this video this morning and tried it with him this afternoon and I was blown away. In just the one session, he was trotting on a completely loose rein, even over trot poles, and responding just to my seat and legs. Sometimes I would feel him start to speed up but then he would censor himself, sometimes without me having to do anything at all. I know it will take time to build consistency and once we get out of the round pen, we’ll likely have to go through it again, but this worked for him in one day and I could feel the change in him. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

absolutely brilliant

Super super great. Would love to see that the other way round. A horse that doesnt go forward.,,

This is amazing!

I wish that you showed it all from the start.

Love this video, exactly what I was looking for! Please could you explain what you mean when you asked Emily to 'sit' to slow her horse down? Thankyou

Great vid, but who wrote the subtitles? (Rungs, truck, cannon = reins, trot, canter) 😂🤣

With horses such as that huge grey Andalusian at your stables for you to train, how long is each training session and how many sessions a week?

Hi Warwick great video. Do you incorporate this when training colts?

need to work on this with my boy. he loves to canter and i always feel like i have to shorten my reins to maintain control....

My instructor always tell me to shorten up my reins to have 'constant contact' otherwise the horse will stumble (apparently). I don't really buy into it but otherwise I'll get yelled at so I ride with short-ish reins (but only when they're watching). There's a term 'washing line' that reins are drooping and apparently that's incorrect in English riding. I feel sorry for the horse cos your vid showing horses can do all transitions without yanking in their mouth with short reins.

The subtitles are hilarious

This is beautiful! Just to clarify, the bending to slow or stop on a loose rein cue is opening inside rein without shortening it?

Why not show that "first afternoon"?

Could this be used with a horse that tends to rush off after jumps? The horse I’m looking into buying rushes immediately after the jump, doesn’t want to stop, tossing his head, and is just wanting to make it to the next one.

I’m curious if this also works with green horses-my girl is VERY forward at trot/canter but i feel adamantly about training her on a loose rein!

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Beautiful work.