Fundamentals

Lead Changes, Speed Control & Circles with Dan Steers

Just go a little faster and they’ll change right! Well some times you might get away with that however most of the time a developed lead change is required to complete a variety of stockmans challenge and reined cow horse patterns.  A fast to slow circle is a typical example. With any of the more

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Advanced Body Control

This is a great video series with Dan Steers which will help you control the the various body parts, that Dan works on in his fundamental exercises, in unison.  Controlling the hip, ribs or shoulders individually is important however it isn’t much use unless you’re able to control all three at once.  These exercises will

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Developing a Spin for Challenges

There is an increasing interest in Challenges across Australia of which most have a dry work component.  The spin manoeuvre can seem very counter intuitive to a lot of competitors and their horses.  This short series will help you to progress from Dan’s foundation and advanced body control exercises to develop the spin.

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Foundation Exercises with Dan Steers

Leading on from our series on pressure and release with Dan this series looks at some of Dan’s foundation exercises that he develops as the buildings blocks for more advanced manoeuvres. You will notice that Dan’s focus is to provide clear aids to control various parts of the horses body, from both the ground and

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Pressure & Release with Dan Steers

Have you ever thought about how your horse learns and how they view you?  Well if you haven’t Dan Steers has!  Going from the competition arena to liberty and again back into performance horses has given him a skill set which is quite unique.  We haven’t spoken to anyone who has given this more thought

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Understanding some of the Principles of Breaking In with Scott McNaughton

If you don’t break your own in you might find this video series interesting.  In this series we hope to give you some insight into what Scott is building on with his breakers to give you every opportunity to progress with your horse when you’re ready to go on with it.  Just jerking the girth

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Fundamental Exercises with Michael Wilson

All the fundamentals on CTO have similar characteristics however slight variances.  Michael’s exercises are a prime example: Similar but unique.  Whether its understanding the position of your feet, getting your horse into its stops or keeping them light in the front feet we’re sure this will help provide some of the missing pieces in your

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Fundamentals with Warwick Lawrence

If you have read the article in the Australian Campdraft Magazine explaining how Warwick puts a foundation on his horses then these videos are a great visual reinforcement of the techniques he uses.  One rein stops, exercises for controlling the shoulder and the hip are all explained and demonstrated.  There are a few variances that

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Preparing for a Start with Wyatt Young

In this series we will add a new video each week for 6 weeks showing Wyatt riding a 4 year old mare (Buttercup) which he hopes to start in the Spring (3 months away).  Each week we will show the ‘how and why’ of Wyatt’s training techniques to progress this mare.  Most training videos only

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Kimberley Demonstrates the Aspects she concentrates on with a 2yo

If you would like some ideas for working your 2 year olds this video will be of interest to you.  In this two part series Kimberley explains the dry work she likes to have before working cattle then demonstrates how she likes to position her horse respective to the beast.  She also emphasises the elements of

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