Horse Training - Riding
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Ponying Poco
Mark and Top work with Poco to help him respond more softly to pressure.
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Revisiting Top
Mark and Top show us how much Top has improved in a year.
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Top, Part One
Mark introduces our new horse Top, and shows what we do when we get a new horse.
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Top, Part Two
We continue our journey with Top. Mark begins working with him from the ground.
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Top Update, Part 2
Mark and Top update us on Top’s progress.
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Top, Part Three
Mark rides Top for the first time. He shows us what a horse who isn’t in balance moves like.
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Top, Part Four
Mark talks about what he and Top worked on during their Top’s first clinic in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Top Part Five
Mark talks about Top’s growth as a clinic horse.
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Where to start to ask for collection
Banjo and Crissi demonstrate how soft stops can lead to true collection.
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Introduction to Footfall and Biomechanics
Mark introduces our next series of videos that will show riders and instructors the details of your horse’s footfall and rider and horse biomechanics.
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Footfall and Biomechanics Part 1
Mark demonstrates how similar our structure is to our horse’s structure.
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Footfall and Biomechanics, Part Two
Mark and Rocky demonstrate the footfall at walk, trot, and canter.
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Biomechanics and Footfall, Part Three
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Footfall and Biomechanics, Part 4
Mark teaches us how to feel and see when the horse’s front feet are getting ready to leave the ground.
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Biomechanics and Footfall, Part Five
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Biomechanics and Footfall, Part Six
Mark chats about the biomechanics of the rising trot.
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Biomechanics and Footfall Part Seven
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Answer about balance at fast speeds
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Internal Transitions
Mark and Rocky talk about smooth and soft transitions using the inside of us first.
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Lateral Work Fun
Mark and Rocky demonstrate some fun lateral work exercises for you and your horse.
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Lateral Work, Part 1
Mark and Quincy show how we begin to teach lateral work.
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Lateral Work, Part 2
Turn on the haunches.
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Lateral Work, Part 3
Putting turn on the forehand and turn on the haunches together.
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Lateral Work, Part 4
Mark and Quincy put it all together.
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Developing a Soft Stop Part 1
Mark and RJ show how to develop a soft stop.
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Developing a soft stop, Part 2
Mark and RJ continue to show us how to begin asking for a soft stop.
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Developing a Soft Stop, Part 3
Mark and Rusty show us how to help a bracey horse find a soft stop.
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Developing a soft stop, Part 4
The last installment in the series of asking our Horse to stop softly. Combining the internal and external elements.
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Backing Softly
Mark demonstrates how we begin to ask a horse to back softly.
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Working a gate
Mark explains some low stress ways to help our horses understand how to work a gate with a rider.
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The Mounting Block
Crissi and Rocky show us how to have a relaxing time at the mounting block.
Mark Rashid Horse Training, Inc.
P.O. Box 3241
Estes Park, CO 80517
P.O. Box 3241
Estes Park, CO 80517
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