How to Exercise a Horse With Indirect Turns

Video Transcript

"I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village. I am going to show you some tips and techniques that I use when exercising my horse using calisthenics. Another really great training technique that you can use with your horse is an indirect turn. So basically what you are going to do is have her walk forward and I am going to use my outside reign and my outside leg which will be my left reign and my left leg and I am going to have her cross her outside leg over her inside leg. This really gets them lifting their shoulders, it gets them to soften in their faces. The first time you do this you may have a little more difficulty if she can actually stop and do it, so you definitely want to try to do it going more forward first. So we are going to do an indirect turn here to the right so what I am going to do is pick up my left reign. I am going to use my left leg up by my shoulder. That is a command that I want her shoulder to come forward and cross over that right leg. And again, if I am doing an indirect turn to the left, I am going to pick up my right reign and I am going to use my right leg up by her shoulder to command her shoulder to cross over, to lift her right leg and cross over the right one. So that is how you would want to perform an indirect turn. "