Exercise(s) Covered at Intermediate Level: A highly functional exercise that both gets a horse ready to control cattle, but also fixes the leaky shoulder on a dressage horse.
Exercise(s) Covered at Intermediate Level: There's many, but this is another iteration of a way to teach a lead change with the help of a log/pole to generate some elevation and suspension
Exercise(s) Covered at Intermediate Level: Not a spin, a pivot. Done cleanly "professionally" it is a functional, beautiful maneuver that is overlooked outside of the Showmanship arena. Practicing this exercise will be an eye opener!
Exercise(s) Covered at Intermediate Level: Giving a horse at true frame to stay within allows the horse to figure its own body out for maneuvers, especially the stop.
Exercise(s) Covered at Intermediate Level: Exercise(s) Covered at Intermediate Level: So many failures happen when people start "collecting" the horse. Building on the Essential Skill Cutting Board Back up, this exercise helps keep conflict out of the equation...a frame doesn't pull on a horse a frame is still and allows the horse to find it's release.
Exercise(s) Covered at Intermediate Level: There's a short, medium and long in every Gait, being able to ask your horse for each is not only good for the horse's knowledge, but good for their physicality