Teaching the spin 

This guy is worth your attention.

Thank you for a proper teaching video! I especially love the bit where you get off the horse to demonstrate the foot pattern.

I filmed that in May, and he was started around February first, so like 3 1/2 months .

Excellent, I particularly like the spiraling in exercise... great advice, thank you

Absolutely the best spin teaching video ever!

Thanks soo much! Your explanation and demonstration was excellent and I can't wait to get home and give it another try! I'm shiny new to reining and have struggled with the spin concept. Being a former barrel racer I believe I over flex and it works against me (sigh). I'll def try the "star" patten and pay attention when horse "sucks back" and walk out of it.

That is a beautiful horse! You are a great rider and you guys do make a fantastic team!!! :)

Originally Australia, now I live in Hollister California.

Great horse. Great rider. Amazing team.

Forward motion is everything.

this is exactly what I need at this moment, great video!

Great Demo.. Great Explanations..

That is a two year old?? what a tank!

Great work and teaching.

I have all the footage of teaching Jimmy to slide , on my website

Really appreciate these videos. Very helpful! This technique really does work.

Excellent! Thank you!

beautiful!

I especially like he used a young inexperienced horse. Can,t wait to try it,I have been trying to hold the horse, so this is something that made sense to me.

Great advice...I have a coming 3yr old Shining Spark/Smart Chic Olena stallion that I'm just really starting to work (he's small so we waited a bit longer), definitely picked up some pointers on really teaching him to be soft at the poll and good with his flexing before we move on. I've always trained WP horses, so this trying to train a more reining bred colt is a little different for me.

Thank you

Nicely presented. Basically dressage principals of rhythm, footfall and keep the forward motion.

very good explanation,but i would like more hints about what to do with the legs,and also the chronology of preparatory exercises that you showed in the begining.hello from romania!

Very nice video

Nice demo.

Nice Thks so much!!:)

Sweetheart is starting to keep one back foot in place and spin around it. Not very fast yet, but he does it right off when asked so that's a pretty decent start.

+WarwickSchiller what do you do when the horse keeps making tiny circles and moves to forward? my horse will go into the spin the first few steps and then likes to go forward and start tiny circles. I've tried backing her up and then starting again but it seems to just frustrate her, ive been trying for around a month and have even taught it on the ground but can seem to apply it in the saddle.

Do you use any leg cues doing the spinning drills?

Great video, thank you! Do you remember about how many rides you had on this colt at the time?

Question! When you are circling smaller and smaller are you giving him a rein cue with the outside hand to get him to pivot?

Love watching your videos :)

I have a horse who will start to spin and then move into a turn on the forehand... Any tips?

Hi, how long has this particular horse been broke? Also, do you have any series of a young horse from the first ride to this, I'm interested in seeing how you did this.

This doesn't pertain to a spin, but I have a question. Whenever I ask my horse to lope, she normally starts to bit on the bit. Do you know any reasons she could be doing this? I know the bit and bridle are put on correctly and in good condition.

My horse max has the potential to be a barrel/reigning horse. One of the things you talked about after lateral flexing (which he has) was pushing the hind end under him the disengaging thing...he doesn't have that. When I ask him to work in a small circle like demonstrated in the begging, he stops and flexes his neck. I'm 14 and I really don't know that much about training a horse only for barrel racing so I would really appreciate some help. Max is 10 and really high strung, I have had him for about a year now, he was abused and his rescuers worked on some stuff with him but they didn't have that much time to work with him so I think they left a lot of fundamentals out. Now when I go to do certain things I think he gets confused and doesn't know what I am asking of him, not his fault he gets confused. Also he is very responsive and a quick learner but a little to excited/high-strung/hot headed/ nervouse and anticipates what I want to do before I ask him to sometimes any advice on that?

Where r u from?

Do you have a video on training a horse to back/stop and bend at the poll? I have a three year old that flexes beautifully laterally to almost no pressure at all. I am struggling with getting her "snappy" in her response to a woah and back. She is naturally very lazy but I want to keep her soft. I am unsure how to approach her.

What if you have a horse that has had their mouth "worn out."?; a horse that is used to someone hanging on their mouth all the time. Do you use the same steps of teaching flexing?

Looks like my nag will not be spinning anytime soon. i dont like the horse to break too much at the pole as they tuck too much and lose some balance. thanks for your time.

Horses? The spin? welp time to sit back and watch some steel ball run

Artigato, Gyro...

DAH that is not a fence at all it is a wall DAH!!

what do you mean close your fingers?

Seems like a decent trainer but why does he need spurs??

* bite

No judgement, purely curious: do you, as of today, think backing a 2 yr. old is too young? Europe won't back a horse before 3 yrs. old because their spine is still growing? American racing races at 2, but some horses are only 1.8 yrs old? Truly want your thoughts? Of course, EU also has far more strict food quality standards than U.S. does. I know QH are so solid but....??? PS: I have been singing your praises on many sites, and getting trolled because I champion you.. and not the idiot, vicious, cruel "trainers."

If you don't teach a horse to disengage his hip (aka one rein stop ) you won't have the problem of him using the wrong pivot foot in the spin.

I wonder why he uses a bit.

Annnnd.... I clicked away when he said "this is a 2 year old" and followed it with "I've ridden him quite a bit" No. Just, no. As a horse trainer, please say NO to training a 2 year old!