3 Exercises for Confidence with your Horse
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Three Groundwork Exercises to Give You Confidence with your Horse
Having confidence with your horse can come down to many things, but being in control on the ground with them is one of the first places you can start and sets you up to have control everywhere else with them. If you’re in control, they relax.
Today’s video gives you three exercises to start you off with your groundwork control and give you confidence with them.
How to lead your horse properly.
How to get your horse to bend properly.
How to get your horse to lower their head.
These exercises seem simple but they go a long way in helping you to
Getting control of your horse
Getting respect of your horse and,
Getting your horse to relax
These exercises will teach you to ask for and receive gentle submission from your horse that will allow them to be confident with you and in turn give you more confidence with them. Here’s some points to remember when executing these exercises with your horse, but be sure to watch the video as there’s a lot more detail in there!
To lead properly you need them to be
Walking between their head and shoulder
Not dragging
Stopping when you stop
To get them bending and yielding the hindquarters you want to
Walk them in a circle around you
Keep inside bend
Shorten the rein and bring your hand up to the saddle
Ask for them to yield while in that flexed position before releasing the rein.
To get your horse to lower their head on command you need to
Place your hand on their poll
Apply gentle pressure downward
Release the pressure when they lower their head
Watch the video, where I go into much more detail on each exercise, while working with Claire, a horse who’d been with several trainers before coming to me and used to just run over the top of me! These exercises have helped me turn her into the calm horse you see in the video!
Let me know if this video was helpful and you do groundwork with your horse! And don't forget to sign up for my FREE mini course on Confidence! Https://ameliasdressageacademy.com/confidence/
Super video Amelia! One suggestion - show/discuss how to adapt the flexion exercises with a stiff or green horse new to GW? Folks “new” to groundwork themselves need to understand this or they get frustrated and their horse gets sore.
Think yoga for the 1st time! 😁 (My horse was so stiff the 1st time she struggled to touch her nose to her girth area. So adapted to going as far as she could without straining. Got better each time from there.)
Loved this video as your horse walking beside you, backing up, or moving out of your space can be accomplished with all horses…stiff & green ones included! Look forward to your mini Course 🐴💕
Very helpful! My boy is just 4, so I do tons of groundwork. Hardest thing for me is he is very “mouthy”. Not to bite, but always wants something in his mouth.
Thank you! I've recently acquired, through the goodness of the universe, a 21yo OTTB gelding. He's extremely dominant and I've been working with him on the ground to establish myself as the lead mare in his herd. I've not ridden in 15 years and I'm also working to re-build my confidence on the ground and in the saddle. I really appreciate the time you take to demonstrate the tools you use. This is so helpful!
Great video Amelia! Thank you! How could I teach my mare to lower her head when riding? Do you have a video for that? By the way I just signed up for your free mini confidence course! I love your videos!!!
Very!
Where do I sign up for the ground work webinar
Go back to the email and scroll down to the very bottom
Yes! Excellent video, as usual! I mostly do groundwork with my big guy. I hope to have the confidence to ride him this year. Thank you Amelia
This was an invaluable trio of exercises, particularly the in-depth exploration of the 2nd exercise and how to work with it. I have a new horse, and we need to work a lot on ground manners and establishing leadership (me!) so this is fabulous. Thank you. I so enjoy your videos
You're so welcome!
Yeah also loved this. What may also be great is to see the progression from pushy mare to today's video. How to "problem solve" from where she was to get to this point
Today I practice this AND my horse do everything.... I'm love... Big thanks Amelia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you Amelia. I always tell my lesson students if the horse doesn't respect them on the ground how do they expect them to respect them when they are on their back.
I am happy to have these confidence ideas in my tool box. I love your poem?
Brilliant … the first (important) steps of building the partnership with your horse. So we’ll explained and demonstrated Amelia 😊
Thank you so much!! Very helpfull😊
Learning so much about horse language from you. Thank you for explaining all the signs of “what’s in a horses head” :))
Thank you great tips
You are so welcome!
Amelia, thank you for sharing your experience with us, and your occasional fears....listening to you voice your own thoughts out loud is a sign of transparency on your part, and I know we all appreciate that.
Glad it was helpful!
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Thank you so much for breaking the lesson down into parts and explaining the why's and how's. Very helpful.
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Great video! I am working with my new horse and learning groundwork exercises for respect.
Very helpful
Loved it!
Yay!
You are just GREAT Thanks
Dominique from Rome
Thank you!
Another great one on groundwork Amelia! Taking your course and using ground work with my green ottb has changed the way I train and ride, truly! After 40 some odd years of riding and showing and training, I have implemented so much of your ground work exercises from the course and it just makes a huuuge difference in connection and respect and obedience.
See you tomorrow night and hope you are feeling better! 🐎👍🏻
Fantastic!
This is so awesome Amanda, being out of the saddle for 25 years and now back in it has been a challenge, with the help from you it’s all coming back . I feel so fulfilled with being back with the horses, my confidence is back. Thank you for your help. Lisa from chippewa falls wi
Hey that's great to hear! Happy Riding!!
Thank you Amelia. You are doing a great job that benefits both horses and riders.
Thank you! This is perfect!
Good exercises
Glad you like them!
Thanks, helps bunches !
This just lit my lightbulb!
beautiful,
Thanks a million for this! Very helpful.
You're very welcome!
I really like your canal, because you give specific advices/exercises, not just generalities
Agree completely...thank you..
Am am ways asked why l do ground work before riding my d ather tempermental and re active horses
Yes!! For sure!!
These are amazing exercises, working on them with my new, quite dominant mare, still loads more practice needed but already we are finding confidence in each other & she is relaxing so much more. Thanks again Amelia 😊
Confidence is always a great subject to discuss. Nice video.
Very good tips. I've used these for years and feel they really help my confidence and communication with the horse.
I've been doing some of these things. Today I'm going to try the bending and head lowering
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this is great. Have a new horse (a Marey mare!) and I have broken my finger so can't ride. Am just going to do groundwork to build our relationship instead and this has encouraged me even more. Thank you!
Thank you for the great video on groundwork!!!
My pleasure!
thank you this was very helpful
Good Morning Amelia. Weather here has been cold. I do a lot of poll releases with Millie, also backing since she forges ahead of me. I used to compete with dogs in Obedience and all is very similar to horses. I am also working on Ground Tieing with Millie. My older friend never Halters her horses and has severe problems blanketing them. Thank you 😊
Very useful. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Amelia, I love this! It just reaffirms what I do and what I expect of my horses on the ground. Three or four mornings a week I listen to your videos as I am getting ready for my day. They always put me in an energized positive mood for the day with my horses.
If you are open to a little advice, which I rarely give out because I have my hands full with my own horses and life, could I make a suggestion.
Instead of multiple clucks with your voice just make one. In one of my first lessons 40 years ago with the great Hungarian Gabor Foltenyi he told me as I clucked away with my horse....Only cluck once. If you make multiple clucks the horse will begin to tune you out just like they tune out your legs if you are constantly banging them on their sides. Make every cluck mean something whether you are on the ground leading or longeing or in the saddle. He said if you need to initially coordinate it with your whip and/or your spur so when you cluck the reaction will be cleaner and crisper. Then later all you may need is the single cluck.... It sure has come in handy in the dressage arena as I am riding away from the judge and I need a little gas!
That's great!
when lowering their head to the ground how do you et them to stop eating the grass? I don't have the option of a no grass riding area. My TB gelding will drop his head but he will snatch grass which i don't want to encourage because then he does it in the saddle and rips the reins right out of your hands
Ask them to go forward!
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So appreciate this sound advice - thank you Amelia. I love all of your videos and find this one particularly helpful in how I might start returning to riding after a nasty fall. I have been riding a horse that doesn't want to leave the stable on the lead rope. Do you have any suggestions in getting her to move forward?
Thanks for watching and subscribing!! I'm sorry to hear you'd a nasty fall! Regarding your horse, walk forward from his shoulder, applying pressure on headcollar with no release. If there is no response from this have your schooling whip ready and tap (2 taps per second) on each leg until he moves forward. This should help!
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@@AmeliaNewcombDressage thanks Amelia- that’s very helpful. However as I’m still learning, which part of the horse is the head collar- thinking lower neck?
I’ve signed up to your webinar- thank you! I’ve broken 5 ribs, sliding off the saddle when the horse escalated from sitting in the trot when riding with no stirrups, to practice my seat!??
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Can I ask you how do I get confidence win ride my horse thank you and thank you Nanette and I'm going to watch your video
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Do you do this ground work before getting on them? Or do you do it in parallel? How long is the ground work session and how long did it take with this mare? Very useful? Just got thrown on the ground today by my young horse who has horrible ground manners, but we are working on it so this is great timing.
It really depends on the horse. With a you g horse it might take 30 minutes before they are ready to get on. With an older friend horse 30 seconds!
Thank you Amelia!
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@@AmeliaNewcombDressage Thank you. That worked. I NEED confidence. After being bucked off my last horse (with broken bone) following about 8 or 9 years of no riding, I am fearful of getting on my new horse, which is a trained, wants-to-please, percheron/QH cross. I have no reason to be afraid of getting on this horse, but I am struggling with this. My plan is to ask someone with a horse to come over and ride with me the first time. The other plan is to finish constructing the fence around my arena (which I am doing today) to make me feel safer with those boundaries.
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Is the link to the mini course still available?
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My horse is very reluctant to lower her head. I feel like this is a big stumbling block for us.
This video on the getting your horse round will help you: amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/3-steps-to-round/
Love your videos always ,, but I am SO relieved that I've got my Parelli 22 ft line... I refuse to allow my horse to be walking all over me... I like my space. I will not lead my horse so close to me ,,,, not trying to upset people here ,,,, but that's just me ,,,,
Yes. Good for you!!
Thought video was very helpful, however the kissing & clucking to the horse so frequently was driving me crazy, especially for forwards and backwards is sending mixed messages.
Thanks for watching and giving feedback, I'll bear that in mind, although many of us use different signals! All feedback is genuinely appreciate though.
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Thank you, Amelia! I’m teaching my 15 year old granddaughter to ride and will surely add these lessons to our repertoire!
Thanks so much for demonstrating these exercises on ground work to establish dominance. I will practice these starting this AM before riding , especially now because they have been off over a week due to the bad weather here in Apple Valley (CA).
Love it!!
Thank you for your great video
My sweet horse is very mouthy and always looking for treats or chewing on his reins
I hate to push him away he has never bit me ever but definitely has a very active mouth. I used to reward him with a lot of treats I have completely stopped and put the treats in his bowl
Now at the end of our rides when I’m working with him on the ground he always turns his head looking for a treat
Very helpful video. Thanks. I have a 4 yr old that I am restarting using ground work meant to desensitize and also help me establish a better bond with mare. I agree about the leading being very important.
Excellent video! Love doing groundwork with my guy and this was a very helpful visual. Thank you Amelia!
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Love this! I would like to see even more from you on this subject of establishing the dominance-submission-confidence relationship, which is such a vital foundation for all the riding movements and competition dynamics. Great job.
Thanks a million for watching Gregory and for the request!
Also, I’m having two webinars at the start of this year, one to help you set goals for you and your horse for the year, and one about groundwork, you can sign up here for both
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Thank you, this is so useful! I will definitely try them out. I saved the video in my Favorites. :)
oh that's awesome i'm so glad you enjoyeed and thanks for watching!
Also, I’m having two webinars at the start of this year, one to help you set goals for you and your horse for the year, and one about groundwork, you can sign up here for both
Goal setting webinar 2022:
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I’d love to see you there!
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@@AmeliaNewcombDressage Thank you for the suggestions and reminders! 🙂 I am following you on IG and getting your emails already. 🙂
@@AmeliaNewcombDressage I signed up for the Groundwork webinar. I am looking forward to it! 🙂
Love!! So important!! Basic yet fundamental!! THANK YOU SO MUCH 🌹👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Great video Amelia! Looking forward to the mini course. I have done a good amount of groundwork with my horse. I like to think of being a good leader rather than dominant over my horse. I have been doing leg yields on the rail in both directions at the walk during ground work. I’m graduating to trot leg yields with some success. Will you be addressing how to safely get your horse to leg yield at the trot both going away and towards you along the rail?
Hi Amelia. I found the bending section of your video most interesting, you made a comment about training for the one rein stop. My horse vary rarely gets out of control and runs away but when he does there's no stopping him. Do you have training suggestions for preventing the runaway as opposed to stopping the runaway? Thanks.
training it from the ground is the best thing you can do :)
I ride a very large 17h horse who tends to plow forward when I am walking him into the barn to tack up. Looking forward to teaching him to respect me with your tips. Thank you Amelia!!!
That's awesome and thanks for watching! Also, I’m having two webinars at the start of this year, one to help you set goals for you and your horse for the year, and one about groundwork, you can sign up here for both
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Thank you for this! I typically walk my horse around and yield his hindquarters from the ground before getting on, but I haven’t worked on submission for getting the head down! My gelding tends to have an upside down neck, so this is another good exercise for me to do before getting on. Thank you!
Immensely helpful!!!!
Yay! 🦄🦄🦄
Excellent video. Thank you very much for explaining this.
Thanks so much for watching!
Also, I’m having two webinars at the start of this year, one to help you set goals for you and your horse for the year, and one about groundwork, you can sign up here for both
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Hi Amelia! Thank you for this video, it was very helpful for me, especially with the bending exercise, but I would really appreciate some tips to teach my horse when I am riding her to stand still in the halt, for more than 2 seconds.
Starting on the ground with the halt is a great beginning too! Groundwork is such an awesome foundation, and can help with it all! If you can get her to stand for a certain amount of time (gradually increasing the time as she gets better) on the ground, it should be easier to transfer to under-saddle.
Hi Tundi! Thanks for watching! Here's a great video for halting!
ua-cam.com/video/7fZsmjEw-pE/v-deo.html
Also, I’m having two webinars at the start of this year, one to help you set goals for you and your horse for the year, and one about groundwork, you can sign up here for both
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I’d love to see you there!
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Fantastic
Thanks so much for watching Kimberly
Also, I’m having two webinars at the start of this year, one to help you set goals for you and your horse for the year, and one about groundwork, you can sign up here for both
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I completely resonated with this video. I recently got a very dominant gelding who was all wonderful at first from his prior owners training and then he started just doing all that you said with me-walking all over me and so on. Then he started getting more and more aggressive on the lunge line and round pen and ended up charging me constantly. I quickly got guidance about the groundwork you’re supposed to do and after that it was like a different horse. He’s an amazing boy and very bold and brave and at one point I was coming home in tears and scared of him. Just those simple things you showed TRULY MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE! I thought I had made a huge mistake buying him but it was all my lack of understanding. And there isn’t any loudness or meanness or anything on my part. Simply body language and control on the ground the way you showed it. Thank you!!
Yay!! Glad that you’ve seen a difference with your horse! Keep it up!!
That was good! I knew these things but I need to get back to doing this before the ride as my horse has gotten a bit dull lately. Thank you for your great vids.
Yes!!
Your videos are very helpful! I need to build my confidence with a new horse I'm riding, and this groundwork will surely help me and my horse! Thank you for your videos!
Thank you for the videos. Could you address young horse unbridling? I have a great young horse who is very respectful. The only problem he has an issue with wanting to rub his head on his own front leg or sometimes me right after being ridden. As soon as I get off, he attempts to rub his face on anything or anyone until he gets his face sponged. I guess its the sweat that bugs him. Thats what makes unbridling him so difficult. He bobs his head quite a bit and getting him to be still while I undo all his little buckles on his bridle is quite the chore. I am starting to try to just wait until he is still before I even try to touch a strap on his bridle but its going slow. Any pointers or a demonstration would be so wonderful
All good exercises. I've been dealing with my bossy mare for 13 years now and still have to remind her now and then that when she is with me, I'm in charge. I would caution to be careful if doing this with the bridle/bit not to yank on the horse's mouth, the most sensitive area on the horse's body. Better to use a halter I think so as not to create problems with the bit/mouth (learned that the hard way).
Great video and thanks for sharing! Just started ground lessons with a trainer and she is teaching me these techniques. Nice to see it in a video too!
perfect timing for me, i am leasing (hope to purchase) a 5 yr old OTTB. She is a bit of a handful, i have her in training starting Jan 1st, but want to build that relationship with her. I will be doing these exercises starting tomorrow!!
Thanks for posting this! As an Equine Physio I think it's so important for us the rider, but also very important as a good warm-up for your horses core muscles and balance, before we hop on and make it harder for them. It also gives you essential information about how your horse is going each day, so you can make wise choices for how much and what kind of riding work your horse needs...as opposed to a set plan of what you as a rider want to work on! Horse first, then the riding gets sooo much easier :)
Yes! So true! Thank you for sharing this! I think a lot more people need to realize this aspect to really help their horses
Good tips!
Thanks for that ! I do that with the head collar but i will do it tacked up next time !!! My mare is quite stubborn sometimes to change her thought can only change it turning her hind leg or making her back up !! So far is the backing up is only when they are not listening ?👍
My horse leads well when at home, leading from the pasture in or from the barn to the arena, but goes all silly when I am leading him up to the front of the house either for trims on concrete or more likely to the trailer to go somewhere. He moves away to the right and in front of me like racehorses do ( no, he’s a very quiet, older AQHA). I can’t really stop his movement as it is away from me and then in front of me. I can carry a whip and try to reach in front to try to stop him, but he is big and long so it’s not easy. Other than this, he is quite obedient. Ideas?
Excellent video, I’ve been working on these with my OTTB dominant mare, great reminder. When leading i have learned to enforce the expectation 100% of the time or she takes back over. It has greatly reduced spookiness.
This video is very helpful! Thank you so much for all your help, Amelia!!
Yes! This is a very helpful (and timely) video. I have a new horse and have recently struggled with confidence in the saddle as I'm getting to know him. Starting my rides with these exercises will hopefully help me feel more in control when in the saddle. Thank you!
Excellent video. I love how you showed the 'wrong way' - we often are not quite aware of what we are doing. Thanks, Amelia!
This was very helpful. I think it’s time for me and my horse to have some refresher sessions.
Been working on these with one of mine! He's off work fir 60 days so we're doing lots of groundwork to maintain respect and not gave blow ups! Only 2 weeks into the 60 days...its gonna be a long winter!
Thank you for the video. It's all true, ground work creates a bond as well as respect and confidence.
Thank you. I have a very strong willed mare that I have stopped riding. This has encouraged me to try with her again
You should! It really does work. I was ready to sell a horse I had just bought thinking I had made a huge mistake Bc he was so dominant and I thought I needed a different horse to match my far less dominant personality. But all he needed-and wanted! Was someone to be in charge so that he didn’t feel that he needed to be. The minute you start doing the things she’s saying in this video you’ll see a big difference. I highly recommend doing her free groundwork webinars. Good luck, you can TOTALLY have a great mare I promise!
@@jenniferhill3377 thank you so much for sharing your experience! I am already having some success with the walking/leading. This mare always wants to be in front of me, as in I end up at her shoulder. It would frustrate me and end up an "argument". Yesterday I worked on her backing away from me and giving me my space. She eventually deferred to me. So some progress! This evening I will work on leading/walking again and backing.