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San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Jennifer and gives suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Jennifer and gives suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride shows you a training session of Amber and Legolas.

Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I wanted to introduce you to Romy. She started training with us about 4 weeks ago and she is half Hanoverian. This horse is owned by one of our students who we started with lunging about a year ago and she is back with us again to begin working under saddle. We began with stretching on the lunge just as we have started our other horses that you have seen in our previous videos such as Miracle. After starting correctly in the lunge first, look how beautifully she is working over her back in the trot.

When we first started with this horse, she had a tendency to curl her neck backwards, but she has gotten used to the weight and has gotten a lot happier. Take the time to work these …

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Sarah and gives suggestions for further improvement.

Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today we are giving you another update on the horse Miracle. Today is the first day that we have him in the trot under saddle.

Look how nicely he is already looking in the trot. If you get your horse established correctly, and are great in the lunge, then you get on and it’s no big deal. Miracle is going to turn into a very nice horse. Again, this is the first time we have had him under saddle and you can see how easy it is when we prepared everything else before we started this.

Once again, this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride with my associate trainer Amber Matusek and we will see you next time!

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber demonstrates Piaffe on Bailador.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber discusses the video sent in by Pat and gives suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Val and gives suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber gives an update on the rescue horse Miracle and discusses mounting.

Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today we are doing an update on the rescue horse Miracle. Miracle has been here with us for about six weeks now, and he has gone from being a nervous uptight horse to standing in the cross ties absolutely beautifully.

We started introducing the saddle to him just this week and he is coming out and stretching out into the contact quite nicely and getting over his back, just like we want him to do. If you look, his coat and whole body has improved already.

The way we work with these young horses is to take them directly out to the arena and never make them stand still in the cross ties until after working, that is why he stands so nicely in the cross ties now. Now he stands perfectly in the …

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Meg and gives suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber discusses the video sent in by Julie and gives suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber discusses the video sent in by Paula and gives suggestions for further improvement.

Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I am here giving a clinic just outside Cleveland, Ohio. Today I wanted to introduce you to Roger.

Roger has come all the way from Washington D.C. to work with us today. He has been working completely on his own after getting his horse about a year and a half ago. He has been watching our videos and putting what he views into practice with this horse. I wanted to show you all how lovely this horse is now going.

Roger started with four months in a chambon and did nothing but getting him to stretch and work over his back. When Roger first got him, he said he looked more like a haflinger pony. Now he is getting him to stretch all on his own without the chambon.

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San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber discusses the video sent in by Jannette and gives suggestions for further improvement!

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Lise and gives suggestions for further improvement.

Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I am giving you an update on the rescued horse, Miracle. It’s about two weeks from our first video where we were just lunging him around in a bridle and just getting him to go around us. Now we are introducing the surcingle with some long side reins so he has something to contact his mouth and get used to carrying a little bit. He is beginning to go around much nicer now and becoming much more civilized in the barn and stable.

When we work young horses like this, especially ones that are unpredictable, the last thing we expect them to do is stand in cross ties. We take them right out of the pen and directly to where they are going to work and then when they are finished working …

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Karine and gives suggestions for further improvement.

Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today we are lunging Miracle for the first time in an actual ring. We lunged him two days in a round pen with a wall to help us out a little bit.

Today when we brought him out, he was a little fractious when we started, but it only took him about five minutes to settle down. Notice we don’t have any tack on him whatsoever and we are just lunging him in a halter. I just want him to get the idea of going around in a circle. Over the next few weeks, we will start adding tack: surcingle and then a saddle. Of course we will not ride the horse until he has quieted his mouth. We will start with the bridle next time.

As you can see in the video, …

Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I want to introduce you to a rescue horse. This is Miracle.

My student Abigail in Las Vegas found this horse that belonged to a man who had him tied to a post and fed him unmercifully. He was skin and bones and had cuts all over his body. He was two years old then and is now four. She bought him from the man, so that she could rescue him and prevent anything else that man would do to him. He has had a little bit of light work over there, but she sent him to us so that we could help him out.
As we pan around and look at Miracle, you can see that he has no topline whatsoever. He isn’t in the bad shape that he was in …

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber discusses the video sent in by Tytti and gives suggestions for further improvement.

Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today we are having a look at Perhaps. Perhaps is the first horse that we started video taping with about 10 years ago. Perhaps started out as a difficult horse. Perhaps is now 18 years old and my wife showed her through I1 successfully and has been schooled through Grand Prix. She is now starting to teach some of our students and is a wonderful school master!

Today we are taking a look at a new horse that started with us a couple of weeks ago, Rocky. He was very hollow and very stiff through the neck, but once we were able to unlock his neck and get him stretching, his stride got longer and started to swing. For him, this is excellent! Often horses can move much better than people think they can once they start working over their backs and are allowed to work correctly.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Victoria and gives suggestions for further improvement.

Hi this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I wanted to give you an update on Contigo who we have featured in previous videos such as the Piaffe. Contigo is 21 years old now and we started rehabbing him at 16. About 6 months ago, Contigo was in his stall almost paralyzed and couldn’t lift his head off the ground. Kristen has done an amazing job rehabbing him!

Contigo had an old break in his neck where he had previously been draw-reined to death, which was treated by a veterinarian and a chiropractor. But look at this horse now. He had never been ridden much until he was 16 years old because he was always unsound in his feet. Now he is 21 years old and is doing absolutely beautifully! We are sure he has many many years ahead of …

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber discusses the video sent in by Jannette and makes suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Jannette and gives suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Lisa and gives suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego horse trainer Will Faerber discusses the video sent in by Jana and gives suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Lindsey and makes suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber gives you an update on Legolas and his associate trainer Amber.

Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Meg and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I wanted to give you all another update on Bailador. Today is the first day in a year and a half where we are able to ride him without lunging first. Look at how relaxed he is as he goes around the ring!

Once again, this is a horse that had a very badly damaged back. We spent a long time rehabbing his back and now he comes out and is perfectly capable of working relaxed. In our earlier videos, you could clearly see how he was breaking in the neck and had been previously overflexed in the neck from draw-reins. Now you can see that the neck is coming down straight and out, rather than curling back. He is now stretching the entire length of his body. Look how even his stride …

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber discusses the video sent in by Meg and gives suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Tytti and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Hi this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I wanted to share a very special moment with you.In the video, we are showing Bailador, which you have watched come along for a while now. Bailador had extreme mental and physical problems. He was the horse that we showed you that had huge holes in his back. Today is very special because it is the first day that he has ever connected across his back!

It has taken Bailador a year and a half to get to this point. Notice how his neck no longer has a break in it and he is able to bring his neck up for the first time. I’ve literally had to ride this horse with his nose to the ground for the past year and a half because he just could not raise his head, …

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Angie and makes suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Victoria and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Hi this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I wanted to answer a question that came into us. A beginner rider wanted to know what kind of exercises he could do to improve his riding.

I have found that the elliptical machine is the best machine type exercise that there is. It is very low impact on your knees and also allows you to imitate how you would be on a horse. Be sure to keep your shoulders up and your abdomen engaged. The biggest thing that it can help with is your balance, because you aren’t holding on. Holding on to the bars and hunching over won’t do you any good. Be sure to keep your knees and your hips relaxed. So I highly recommend the elliptical trainer. I use it three times a week. It will do more …

Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Lindsey and makes suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Tytti and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Hi this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride wishing you all a Happy New Year’s! I am here today with Ginny Walker and her horse Cordel whom you’ve seen in previous videos about correcting over-flexion.

Cordel has just spent three months with us here and I wanted to show you how lovely he is moving now. If you remember from the earlier videos that we took of this horse, he was very over-bent in the neck and curling back and you could clearly see the break in his neck as he traveled. Look how easily he is moving through and stretching forward. As you can see in the video, it doesn’t always go perfect. After the second try he is easily moving through with the contact of the bridle and becoming very light. This is a very big horse by the way, …

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Victoria and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I wanted to give you an update on Amber and Legolas.

Legolas is just beginning to come into a new frame and is beginning to develop collection. As you can see in the video, he is able to stay up in the bridle and is not breaking over in the third vertebrae and is thrusting much deeper. Go back and compare earlier videos of Legolas and you will see that he was going a lot faster in his footfalls but without nearly the depth of suspension that we see now, that is the depth of compression of the hind legs. No matter how much we ask the horse to collect, you always need to come back to the full length of the stride.

Amber demonstrates a complete working trot where he is …

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Angie and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Hi this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I am here with my good buddy Legolas. I wanted to refer you to a site that I recommend all of you look at. The website is: www.sustainabledressage.net .

This website is a wonderful work of love which someone has put together with devotion to correct training. The website is full of great articles explaining all the things that you see us discussing in our videos, such as getting a horse to work over it’s back, how all the muscles in the neck and back of the horse work together or not together. She also shows several examples of good and bad development.

Once again, the website is: www.sustainabledressage.net and I highly recommend you take a look at it. She is continually building the site up all the time. This is Will Faerber from …

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride critiques a video sent in by Victoria from Canada of her horse Dylan.

Hi this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride here with Amber Matusek and her horse Legolas. Today we are going to work a little on lengthening.

Now that we have the horse stabilized in the bridle and she is able to sit to the trot quite nicely without losing his back, we can lengthen in the trot. With a young horse, it is a good idea to rise a couple of strides after the sitting trot and then ask him to lengthen. Look how beautiful he lengthens his stride! Look how he flowed out and his neck got a little bit longer. In the sitting trot, she reaches up and the poll stays up. This was a horse that was very badly broken in the neck, and we are just getting to the point where we can do this without him breaking …

Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I am here with my associate trainer Amber Matusek and her horse Legolas. Today we are going to continue our discussion of beginning the horse in the canter.

Amber bought this horse about a year ago, and she has spent this time working him long and low. She started with us about three months ago and we have just been starting Legolas on the canter on the lunge line. She has gotten to the point where she can sit to the trot quite nicely in a  good active working trot, which means she can begin the canter. Remember the trot has to be correct before you begin the canter. Once we can get the horse to work over it’s back while supporting our weight, then we can become serious about the canter.

Amber …

Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I am here today to work on the canter. With me today is Amber and her horse Legolas.

Before you ask for the canter while lunging, you must make sure he can work in the trot over his back first. Notice in the video that we have the line over the top of the horse’s head. He is a young horse and before we got him he would yank his head and drag people out of the arena, and that is why we have the line over the top and connected to the bit with this horse. So if he does begin to act out we can control him without a lot of difficulty.

When is the horse ready to canter? He is ready to canter when you can get him over his back …

Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today we are going to have a lesson about how to go over trotting poles. As you can see in the video, the horse goes over the poles with absolutely no change in rhythm or frame. We are doing this in a complete stretch, in a good working trot and swinging over his back. Demonstrating on the horse today is my associate trainer Amber Matusek. Look how she keeps him in the same frame all the time. As the horse is stretching down, notice Amber is stretching up and not interfering with him by leaning forward. A lot of people will lean forward in the stretch, but this will throw the horse onto it’s forehand. He stepped on that last pole, so we are going to ask him to open up his …

Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Angie and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride here with Dave Murphy and his horse Zoey. As you probably remember from previous videos, Zoey started over a year ago as a very over-reactive Arab who would be very difficult to even get out by the rail at home and would freak about every car going by. She is coming along beautifully and is starting to swing.

We came to realize after watching Zoey in the beginning that she would get sore in the feet. I just wanted to warn people at home that barefoot shoeing is a wonderful thing if it works for your horse, but it takes a long long time and it doesn’t work with some of them at all. Zoey is going along much better now that we had front shoes put on. She is staying sound and it …

Hi this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride with Dave Murphy and his horse Zoey.

This was a horse that would freak out when she would come out, but look how lovely she is now. She is now able to carry Dave’s weight quite easily. She still wants to curl back a little bit, but this is the best we have seen her go so far! As you can see in the video, she does a beautiful leg yield. She has come such a long way! When we first started with her she would freak out on every circle, but now he is able to keep her in a nice steady rhythm.

Once again, this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride with Dave and Zoey, thanks for joining us!!!

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Tytti and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I am here with Amber, our associate trainer. Amber moved down here to join us about a month ago. This is a horse that I discovered at a clinic and Amber was fortunate enough to buy it.

He is five years old and is beautifully stretching into the contact. Look at how consistently this horse is floating over the ground. Amber will now bring him up and show us his working trot. This horse started out a little broken in the neck, but she has gotten him through now. Notice how there was no change in his gate during the transition. The only thing that changed was his neck coming into a different position. Also notice how the horse’s neck went out and down when going back into the stretch. When we …

Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I wanted to give you an update on the horse Bailador. In the video we showed you of him when we first started about a year ago, he was hollow and had severe holes throughout his back. We wanted to give you an update on his progress.

Look how nicely he has come up in the withers, when before it was very dropped. In the video you can see that this area is now completely flat, when before he had holes very deep into his back and a total indentation where the old saddle used to sit. In only a year’s time, we were able to completely get rid of that. Also, his neck has thickened up across the topline after starting with quite a u-neck. He was also broken at …

Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Katherine and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Drewry and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Angie and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I wanted to introduce you to Cher who is a two year old that is owned by Carrie Underwood. Cher was raised and bred here at our barn. We started giving her lunge lessons about two weeks ago. Notice how I am lunging her with just a simple cavesson with no bit in her mouth and no tack on her back yet. I want to make sure the horse moves correctly first before adding any kind of constriction, like a girth.

What I wanted to show you was, when a horse is allowed to, a horse will stretch on it’s own because it is natural for them. Today is actually the first day that she really stretched over her entire topline. So I want to see if I can show you …

Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride. Today I am showing you an update on Bobbie and her horse, who you can view in a previous video as well. He was an out of control Arab and Bobbie has been working with him for about a year now, and she is doing absolutely wonderful!

In the video, Bobbie demonstrates a leg yield. Bobbie has done most of the work on this horse herself with me coming about once a week. She has another trainer here as well that has just started to help her ride him a little bit. But she has done basically most of the work herself, and she has done a wonderful job! She has taken this horse from an unrideable lunatic to what you see here today! He was misunderstood and never received a good foundation. …

Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Tytti  and makes suggestions for further improvement.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Bob and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Good afternoon, this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I wanted to show you another one of the horses that we are now working with. This is Carrie Underwood and her horse Etch-A-Sketch. Etch-A-Sketch is just four years old, and just started dressage training with me just a couple of months ago. We are thrilled with this horse and think she has a lot of potential once she fills into herself.

As you can see in the video, she is quite huge and just look at that lofty beautiful trot. She is just now learning to stretch. When we first started her, she had a little break in her third vertebrae, which is why it is so important that we get her all the way out there. You can see sometimes when she accepts the contact that she comes a little …

Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Meike and makes suggestions for further improvement.

Hi this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride with H2O and Barb. Barb leases this horse and it is the same horse that you saw in our last video with my wife Karen Loshbaugh. The last video was the first time that we had gotten him into a complete deep stretch, so I wanted to show you the student working on the exact same thing.

Look how easily this horse is able to work with Barbara. This horse was very very stiff, she was the kind of horse that just pulled her head up into the air and jammed her neck back into her body. Now Barbara is experiencing her very loose over her back and swinging. Much improved, beautiful! So this is really about a month of training, 3-4 days a week, just getting her softened up and lunging correctly. We …

Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I am here showing you one of the new horses that we are training. We have been working with this horse for about a month. It was a hunter and her name is H2O.

She has quite a strong back, but she was quite stiff through her neck. I wanted to show you a video of her first day of really getting a full stretch, she has really loosened up. This was a horse that would really brace against your hands and start to run. Look at how nicely she is beginning to swing over her back after only a month! Look at how we have the full range of motion! This is my wife Karen Loshbaugh riding her today.

I wanted to introduce you to some of these horses because we will …