How to Exercise a Horse by Combining Movements

Video Transcript

"I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you some tips and techniques that I use when exercising my horse using Calisthenics. So once you have your horse skilled at the individual calisthenics, a really great training technique is to put them all together. Get your horse really nice and soft, get them more responsive. So just one example of what you can do is just move from an indirect turn into a hip, into a side pass, into a back up, back into indirect turn, back into another type of side pass, back into bumping your hip around. Have her side pass the other way, go into lope departure, into a back up, into a indirect turn the other way, bump your hip around. So just by putting your moves together and that type of scenario gives your horse a lot more flexibility, a lot more responsive to what you are asking them to do. It kind of teaches them to put all those moves together."